30Nov Apple’s Black Friday
Get ready to buy your favorite products with special prices! Remember, Christmas is coming!
In an Apple Store near you!
28Nov Coding for Students
Do you love open source? Would you like to learn how to program? Are you a student who’s not yet reached university? Are you aged 13 or above?
This is for you!
Google’s Higly Open Participation Contest will bring together young developers and open-source. They’ve gathered some great projects, like Apache, GNOME, Python, and many other, that will now give to the contestants several type of assignments, like writing code or documentation and patching bugs.
At the conclusion of the contest, contestants will receive a t-shirt and certificate for completing at least one task and 100 USD for every three tasks completed (maximum 500 USD per contestant).
Still waiting?
17Nov Android SDK
Google’s now looking after developers to create great applications to the first open handset platform. To motivate developers to download and start playing with the SDK, Google will be offering $10 million among the ones with better applications!
Here’s a video showing some of the already built applications . Amazing!
06Nov Open Handset Alliance
What would it take to build a better mobile phone?
The question is put by the Open Handset Alliance, which is gathering a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Some really important names are behind the project, like Google, HTC, LG, NVIDIA, Intel and many, many others!
In order to the do this, they’ve developed Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, that will be released in the second half of 2008.
It appears that all the rumors behind Google’s Phone are now demystified. They’re not creating a mobile phone of their own, as was being said, but hardly working as part of the Open Handset Alliance.
This is definitely a project with the right motivation and sponsors to become something really huge! Will it blend the Iphone?
21Oct Tribal Wars
Accepting Gouki’s challenge, the Ubuntu community is now gathering at Tribal Wars, a browser based game, where every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory. In order to really kick ass with our UBU tribe, we need you!
So, what are you waiting for? Read the wiki, register and join us in this adventure!
P.S.: We’re getting more people every hour, still, every help is needed! Come and join us and be able to get to know other Ubuntu users, while having some fun! If you have a digg account, please help us spreading the word.
16Oct OS X v10.5 and Ubuntu 7.10
The hype is here. Two of the most used OSs from our days are going to have a new release this week month. Prepare your Digg feed for a lot of Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X experience, schedule for release October 18th and 19th 26th respectively!
Both are incredibly improved and I guess that there will be really a lot to talk about each one of them, when they begin to spread through all those computers out there.
I’ll keep with Ubuntu, obviously, mainly due to the 200$ kept in my pocket! But I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there dying to put their hand into this most recent OS X v10.5.
Is Open-Source achieving the quality standards needed to be selected by Desktop users over other well paid OSs?
You can learn more about each one of them by clicking in each picture.
Which are you waiting for?
(Sorry to all you MS Windows fans out there, Windows was not forgotten, it’s just not even at this level)