Ubuntu 13.04 Release Date – April 25th 2013.
There will be 2 alphas and 1 beta releases.
Ubuntu 13.04 Alpha 1 – 6th December
Ubuntu 13.04 Alpha 2 – 7th february
Ubuntu 13.04 Beta 1 – 7th March
Ubuntu 13.04 final – April 25th 2013
Starting from October 1st, Google Docs users won’t be able to export documents in Microsoft Office from 1997 to 2003 (.doc, .xls, and .ppt) formats.
Google just released chrome 22 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame, a new stable version of its popular browser.
What’s new in this chrome 22 stable ?
Mouse Lock API availability for Javascript
Additional Windows 8 enhancements
Continued polish for users of HiDPI/Retina screens
Bug fixes:
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Apple iOS 6 is now available for download. what’s new in iOS 6?
New Maps application for iOS features 3D images and turn-by-turn directions.
Updated Siri adds the ability to read sports results, make a restaurant reservation, launch applications, update Facebook and twitter statuses.
Deep Facebook and Twitter integration
Do not disturb
share select photos with a select audience.
passbook
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According to Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra, Google+ has 400 million users now and more than 100 million people are active on the service each month (plus.google.com and mobile app).
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Twitter has released a new look for profile pages and updated Mobile Apps.
Whats new?
A big header image that runs across the top .
Member profile photos have been moved from the top left to the center of the page.
Photo streams now appear below anyone’s most recent Tweets on iPhone, Android and iPad.
Microsoft has announced pricing for office 2013.
Office 365 Home Premium single subscription: $8.33 per month and $99.99 per year.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher.
ability to use Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs shared among all users in the home. additional 20GB over the 7GB you get for free.
60 minutes of Skype world calling per month.
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VirtualBox 4.2.0 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes
GUI: VM groups
GUI: expert mode for wizards
GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime
Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration
Resource control: added support for limiting network IO bandwidth; see the manual for more information
Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris; see the manual for more information
Added experimental support for Drag’n’drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned.
Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts
Enhanced API for controlling the guest
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PHP 5.4.7 is now available for download.This release fixes over 20 bugs. What’s new in this release?
Fixes:
segfault while build with zts and GOTO vm-kind
Only one directive is loaded from “Per Directory Values” Windows registry
parse_url() does not recognize //
stdint.h included on platform where HAVE_STDINT_H is not set
register_shutdown_function and extending class
Calling exit() in a shutdown function does not return the exit value
dangling pointers made by zend_disable_class
munmap() is called with the incorrect length
Segfault when using traits a lot
implementing __toString and a cast to string fails
Fatal error raised by var_export() not caught by error handler
Stat and Dir stream wrapper methods do not call constructor
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Thunderbird 15.0.1 released
Thunderbird 15.0.1 is now available for download.Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. This is a bug fix release.What’s new in this release?
Fixed:Stability issues causing crashes when searching emails and forwarding emails.
Fixed:Find and replace and some other actions in the compose window were not working correctly.
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