Finally Canonical has given the green signal to replace Evolution by Thunderbird in Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” which is scheduled for release in October.

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It is no secret that Google has been planning on bringing games to Google+ eventually – after all logo and references to Google+ games had been found in the Google+ source codes. Today, Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Google, has officially announced the Google+ Games. Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the…

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LBE Privacy Guard gives users the ability to manually configure each and every permissions of the different apps installed. Users can outright deny a particular permission, approve it or decide whenever the permission is required.

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Facebook has launched a new messaging app for Android and iOS. The app, called Facebook Messenger, brings a SMS like messaging system that is based on Facebook’s messaging system.

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Google is discontinuing the Android App Inventor. Google has announced that the App Inventor will be closed within the next 90 days.

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The Fedora developers have decided that Fedora 16 will not use Btrfs by default. The announcement was made by Josef Bacik, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat.

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Today Google has announced another major new feature that they are planning to bring to Chrome. The new feature, called Web Intents, will allow web apps to share information with each other without the need for each other to actually know the other web apps.

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In a blog post, John Luther, the Project Manager of Google’s WebM Project, has announced that Skype now supports the VP8 codec. The VP8 support is already available for Windows users who are using Skype 5.5. VP8 will be used to encode and decode the Skype video call if both the caller and receiver have…

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It is no secret that many people do not like GNOME 3. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, has joined that list of people who dislike GNOME 3. In Google+, Torvalds wrote criticized the direction that GNOME has taken with GNOME 3. He called GNOME 3 an “unholy mess” and said that the…

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