Articles by Jack M. Germain

Google last week introduced EarlGrey, a functional user interface testing framework for Apple iOS apps YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Translate and Google Play Music have successfully adopted the framework, the company said....

In the days following the court order directing Apple to help the FBI unlock an encrypted iPhone associated with the San Bernardino terrorists, supporters have lined up behind both sides A federal magistrate last week ordered Apple to create software that would let authorities access data in an iPhone used by the shooters in the attack last year. A...

Neverware on Thursday announced the addition of dual-boot support, allowing its CloudReady operating system and Microsoft Windows to run on the same computer The dual-boot feature preserves existing data on computers. Adding it to CloudReady -- which lets PCs and Apple computers function like Google Chromebooks -- will let users keep their existing...

Makulu 10 Xfce edition continues developer Jacque Raymer's track record of pushing the limits with useful and innovative features to keep his distro line a step ahead of the crowd....

Any effort to ban encryption or provide government agencies with backdoor access would be unenforceable and prone to failure, according to a Harvard University report released last week Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard'sBerkman Center for Internet and Security, and collaborator Kathleen Seidel, together with Harvard student Saranya Vijayakuma, i...

SourceForge on Tuesday announced that it has pulled the plug on its DevShare program amid growing rebellion from software developers and a change of ownership SourceForge Media announced the termination notice with a promise of other policy changes coming soon....

TheRosa Desktop Fresh R series optimizes desktop usage and targets advanced users and enthusiasts looking for rich functionality. Add to that mix the default KDE flavoring and you have a compelling Linux distro that challenges your first-choice OS....

Turing Robotic Industries this week announced that it has uninstalled Google's Android mobile platform in favor ofJolla's Sailfish OS in its yet-to-appear secure smartphone The Turing Phone, molded from a single unit of the Liquidmorphium liquid-metal alloy, is designed to be more durable to absorb shocks and prevent screen breakage....

T-Mobile's 700-MHz rollout has given its mobile users some of the fastest data speeds in the U.S. market, according to a report OpenSignal released Tuesday OpenSignal crowdsources data on carrier signal quality from users who have its consumer mobile application installed....

Zenwalk is a Linux distro that seems to be in a state of flux....

Walmart on Tuesday announced that it has posted the code for itsOneOps cloud application life cycle management platform on GitHub The company developed the OneOps platform for building and launching cloud-based applications across varied storage environments that change frequently. It lets e-commerce vendors deploy apps on platforms from Microsoft ...

Nelum OS is a light and fast live-installable Linux distribution family offering three separate releases....

Security researchers atDr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers Malware for Linux is becoming more diverse and includes spyware programs, ransomware and Trojans designed to carry out distributed denial-of-servic...

The latest release of the Linux distro now called"Depth OS" deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed "Deepin Desktop Environment," or DDE....

TheLinux Foundation this week announced an expansion of theDronecode project with investments from new members and the creation of three technical working groups The foundation launched the open source project in 2014 in an effort to create a unified platform for commercial drone technology....

TheSolus Project is much like the little engine that still can't function....

Hacking teamfail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony's PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance The demo was part of a lightning talk session at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress....

The release last month ofElementary OS Freya version 0.3.2 showed little has changed in this new-style Linux distro that wraps its own lightweight desktop design around the Ubuntu core....

TheChapeau project's latest version arrived last month and is a good choice for enterprise users who want something a step above the traditional Fedora distro....

Slack this week announced its participation in an US$80 million investment campaign to fund startups that build software that integrates with its own apps The company also announced the availability of an app directory and a new development framework. The goal is to position Slack as a hub for connecting users to other cloud business software....