Alex Brodt – Articles

Adobe launched Flash Player 10 beta for Linux, but disappointed those who expected they would finally fix the transparency problem.

Apple stopped selling iPhone in online stores in the US and UK, claiming they sold out of stock.

América Móvil (Claro's controlling company) confirmed agreement with Apple to bring iPhone to Brazil still in 2008.

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Fring arrived on iPhone bringing together in one app what many people used separately: Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!

The University of Passo Fundo is organizing the III Regional Seminar on Digital Inclusion and Free Software and everyone is invited!

Fresh from the oven, the Professional Shell Script book, by Aurélio Marinho Jargas.

The Lua language, born in the PUC-Rio laboratory and so present in games and embedded systems, will gain space at FISL with the presence of Sérgio Queiroz de Medeiros.

Yahoo!

The Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group, together with the SouJava community, invites you to OpenSolaris Day on April 16, 2008, at the Bank Workers Union Auditorium, in Porto Alegre.

Nokia confirmed it's developing a smartphone with touch screen to compete with iPhone, internally called "Tube".

Google launched a very interesting service that allows users to register their businesses on Google Maps.

Google launched Google Movies in Brazil and we finally have an easy way to find cinema showtimes without having to call cinemas or navigate through horrible cinema complex websites.

Recently a course written by Julio Cezar Neves was published on the Linux Magazine website.

Server migration to PHP6 could cause a lot of headaches for countless programmers.

Mandriva 2008 Spring came out on schedule and this time they got it right on what matters.

Michael Larabel published on Phoronix a preview of Fedora 9 Beta with real system images.

JavaScript is an excellent and powerful client-side programming language for the Web.

What great news!

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signaled that he wants to participate in the International Free Software Forum.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 Final Beta.

Nokia confirmed to Vanessa's blog that it will be at FISL 9.0 and that it intends to hire participants who stand out in the Programming Arena.

It's interesting to see President Lula receiving the coordination of ASL (Free Software.Org Association) at Planalto to personally deliver the invitation to FISL 9.0.

The second edition of the PWN to OWN competition, during the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, took place from Wednesday to Friday, March 26-28, 2008.

DesktopLinux.com survey based on US computer sales data shows Windows is losing market share to Mac and Linux.

Vivo and Yahoo launched Vivo Search, mobile search tool based on Yahoo!

I tested the new OpenOffice 2.4 version and the improvements are noticeable in daily use.

Starting March 25th, Itaú Bank began providing some 3G telephony services.

Ulteo is the virtual KDE desktop, accessible via web browser, produced by the company of Gaël Duval, the creator of Mandrake Linux.

After releasing six alpha versions, the Ubuntu development team presented on March 18th the first beta version of their distribution for download.

Opera Software announced that it reached 100% on the Acid3 test, surpassing Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Nicholas Panas brought Lego blocks to the iPhone screen with Lego Touch.

PC Magazine gave 4.5 out of 5 stars to Mac OS X Leopard, which is impressive coming from a magazine traditionally focused on Windows.

Microsoft has released the Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 for download.

FISL 9.0 received support from important sponsors like Intel and Sun Microsystems, in addition to companies like Google, UOL and government agencies like SERPRO, Ministry of Culture and Caixa Econômica Federal.

Apple visited Brazil to study bringing iPhone here, but ran into very complicated obstacles.

I've separated my favorite Firefox extensions for web development.