Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Last year, tickets for the event sold out within two hours of availability. This year, however, the tickets were sold out within two minutes.
BitTorrent is a very well-known name when it comes to online file-sharing. The company already offers a number of highly popular file-sharing solutions. Now, the company has announced that its file-syncing tool, Sync, is open to the public and offers fast peer-to-peer file-sharing, without the need of a central server.
When Monty Widenius and David Axmark created MySQL, they envisioned it to be a truly open-source database. But over time, MySQL was acquired and became commercialized at the hands of Oracle. The duo has now reunited, thanks to a recent merger, and plan to work on another database, called MariaDB, hoping to make it purely open-source.
From the high stake patent battles between electronic giants lately, one thing is certain – these companies are not in for a healthy competitive market. Software giant Microsoft seems to have taken a lesson from these battles. The recent proof of this is a patent deal with ZTE announced on Tuesday.
We have already reported that a new version of Nexus 7 tablet may arrive at the Google’s I/O conference next month. Seems ZTE is also planning to unveil 7-inch devices at the same time. The company is reported to be stepping in the ring with the V72A tablet.
Canonical is speeding up the progress on its Ubuntu Touch OS. The company unveiled the OS, meant for tablets, a few months ago and a developer preview arrived back in February. Now, Canonical has made the beta images of Ubuntu Touch available for testing, so that developers can dig into them and discern if there are any bugs.
Recently, WikiLeaks has publsihed confidential chat between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt.
We have found leaked specs of three unconfirmed tablet models from Samsung. According to sources, these include two Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 variants along with a high-end tablet codenamed Roma (carrying the model number of P-8200). The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 variants may initially come in two versions — 8-inch and 10-inch.