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Novell Linux revenue soars as global server revenue plummets. The company reported Thursday that its Linux Platform revenue climbed 25 percent year over year in one of the worst recessions in history.

Google expects 18 Android phones by year's end. Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms for Google, said the number could be as high as 20.

A grab bag of Linux games. From first person shooters to racing games, here are some titles to try over the weekend.

Microsoft Update quietly installs Firefox extension. A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installs a .NET update extension.

Navigate the web faster with these Firefox hotkeys. Here are a whole lot of easy shortcuts.



Browser Chiefs Aiming Squarely At Web Apps

Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.


At Google I/O: Meet Google Wave, and HTML Video Comes to Chrome

Yesterday, we covered news coming out of the Google I/O developer event in San Francisco, including new offerings for web developers and a new iteration of the Android Developer Challenge, with cash prizes. Today, the event is continuing, and there is more interesting news. The company is giving developers an early look at a new project called Google Wave. It's a combination of conversation- and document-sharing online, including mashups of photos, videos, maps and more. Google has also announced HTML 5-based video support in its Chrome browser, which--like other open source browsers such as Firefox--will allow users to display video without a plug-in such as Flash. Here are more details.


Canonical Ponders an Android Friendly Remix

As the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) kicks into high gear, the hopes, dreams and plans for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 release are taking shape. Over at Ars Technica, Ryan Paul reports on Canonical developer Michael Casadevall's presentation highlighting some of the technical nuances of making Android applications run on Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

Ubuntu's popularity aside, it is still esoteric -- Google has the upperhand in non-open source enthusiast name recognition. This no doubt plays into netbook manufacturer's opting for Android on netbooks, even though (as Paul states) Android is still very much a smartphone platform. Android can be modified, of course, but Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution) are already lightweight desktops potentially requiring fewer modifications to work well on netbooks.

Will adding Android compatibility make Remix a more attractive platform option? Can it really hurt?



OpenX Gets $10.4 Million in Funding, Squares Off With Google

OpenX Technologies, an open source advertising community that helps online publishers make money, has just announced a $10.4 million third round of venture funding, bringing total investment in the company to nearly $31 million since mid-2007. The company's technology lets publishers manage a mix of ads from multiple networks across a web site, and competes directly with Google's Ad Manager. Palo Alto-based firm DAG Ventures led the round of financing, and GigaOm has more on OpenX's plans here.?


The Android Momentum Continues

In recent weeks, the Android operating system has seen tremendous, encouraging? momentum. After the Mobile World Congress show took place earlier this year, with very little Android news of any kind there, some speculated that the open source operating system might be an outright failure.? Now, though, there are signs of interest in Android from the number two personal computer manufacturer in the world, new forks of the operating system arriving, and lots of new Android smartphones on deck. GigaOm has a summary of the past week's important Android headlines, including the possibility of a new Android tablet device, and we've been on the Android watch as well.?



8 Guides and Tools for Supercharging Google Chrome

As we noted yesterday, Google has introduced a new version of its open source Chrome browser that is much faster than previous versions, and also faster than Firefox 3.5, Beta 4. It's worth downloading if you haven't been using Chrome, and you'll get it automatically if you have been using it. Since Chrome was introduced, many useful collections of resources, tips, scripts and plugins have appeared online. Here is an updated roundup of our favorite guides and tools for getting more out of Chrome--all of them free. ?With its newfound performance and these customization resources, you can get a lot out of Chrome.


New Version of Google Chrome is Much Faster

There's a new version of Google's Chrome open source browser available, as the team behind it has announced. Google is citing up to 30 percent performance increases on JavaScript-heavy tasks. I've taken it for a spin, comparing it to Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, which also has very fast JavaScript performance thanks to its TraceMonkey technology. The new Chrome does work faster than the Firefox beta at this point, and the performance is another way that Google's browser is maturing and innovating.


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Secret EU open source migration study leaked. A hush-hush study from the EU Council has made it into the wild.

8 cool tricks to make the most of Google Chrome. Coax it to use less memory and become a wizard with tabs.

Microsoft debuts open source PHP for Azure, IE8. The company has a new Software Developer Kit (SDK) for PHP on Microsoft's cloud services platform Windows Azure.

Can the enterprise open source strategy work? In associating with Red Hat, Ingres grabs a lifeline into the larger enterprise customer space.

aTunes is an unsung cross-platform audio player and manager. It makes it easy to organize music, rip audio CDs, and more.