Hot on the heels of the latest stable release, Firefox 16 has entered the beta channel, bringing with it some cool new tools for web developers.

If you’d like to give them a try, download the latest Firefox beta from Mozilla.

The latest addition to Firefox’s ever-expanding set of built-in tools for web developers is the new Developer Toolbar and its “command line” tool.

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SUSE is officially making its OpenStack-based Open cloud offering widely available. The Linux vendor has been working on its OpenStack distribution for much of the year, with the first public beta debuting back in June.
The new SUSE Cloud can be used for both public and private cloud deployments and adds yet another option for enterprises looking to deploy a commercially supported OpenStack distribution. OpenStack started out in June 2010 as an effort led by NASA and Rackspace. It has since grown to include all of the major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Red Hat as well as major IT vendors such as HP, Dell, IBM and Cisco...

SAN DIEGO. It's no secret that Google's Android mobile operating system has had its share of security flaws. But what is less well-known is that the U.S. government's National Security Agency (NSA) is among the teams working to improve Android security.
Speaking at the LinuxCon North America 2012 conference, NSA developer Stephen Smalley detailed how the NSA is working to make Android more secure for everyone.
The NSA is no stranger to the world of Linux and open source security. In 2004, the NSA began to work on something known as SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)...

Linux use on server technologies continues to rise, chipping away at both Windows and Unix shares. Though in Zemlin's view, Linux today is about much more than just the server.
"Open source and Linux have become fundamental to the way people create new technology," Zemlin said.
The two major shifts in computing today, mobility and cloud, both have Linux as essential components. Zemlin also took a polite jab at VMware, which is a member company of the Linux Foundation, and is just wrapping up its own VMworld conference this week.
"While the suits are up at VMworld talking about product roadmaps, the geeks that are building the next generation of technologies that will enable the cloud are all right here," Zemlin said. "It's Cloudstack, OpenStack, oVirt, Chef and all those technology projects that are at the leading edge foundation of IT and are rapidly becoming permanent components of the way software is built...

SAN DIEGO. What is open source?
It's not as easy a question as you might think. For me, I used to (perhaps naively) believe that any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is open source. Those licenses are all supposed to conform to the Open Source Definition.
Speaking at the LinuxCon conference, Red Hat lawyer Richard Fontana led an awesome session that really illuminated by view of the whole discussion...

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has partnered with Atari to re-imagine classic Atari games for the modern web. That’s right, Centipede, Asteroids, Missile Command and half a dozen more all re-written using HTML5 and javascript.

If you’d like to play, point your browser to the new Atari Arcade and enjoy the glory of Pong, Super Breakout and the rest of the Atari back catalog.

While the games look

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The web needs a more intelligent way to serve images; one-size-fits-all doesn’t work in an increasingly mobile world.

Web developers need a way to specify images based on screen size, bandwidth and other factors. To help them do that the W3C, the group that oversees the HTML standard, has published the first editor’s draft of the HTML Responsive Images Extension. The proposal is just a draft, but it points

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From the 'What Can't Arduino Do?' files:

SAN DIEGO. Sleep apnea is a serious condition. So what's a hacker with sleep apnea going to do?

That was the topic of one of more eccentric session at the LinuxCon conference today.  Google developer Marc Merlin suffers from Sleep Apnea and wasn't satisfied with some of the commercial solutions that he was forced to endure.

"Like every good hacker I have an arduino board," Merlin said. "I meant to use it for a rocket,  but i guess i'm just not cool enough."

Over the course of his near hour long talk Merlin detailed the ins and outs of how he used different approaches to detect his sleep condition...

From the 'I asked, Linus answered' files:
SAN DIEGO. Linus Torvalds took stage tonight at the LinuxCon conference in a panel discussion about the state of Linux. Lucky for me they took questions from the audience via Twitter - though apparently i was the only one that asked questions over Twitter
I asked about the naming issue - many of us were almost caught of guard by how the whole Linux 3...

The default WordPress theme is quite possibly the most widely used design on the web; the minute you sign up for or install WordPress you have a website that uses the default theme. Every year WordPress unveils a new look that will grace every “just another WordPress site.”

This year’s theme, Twenty Twelve, is the first to embrace responsive design, adapting its layout to fit any screen. The WordPress [url=http://], and the last few default WordPress themes have accommodated small screens, even using some responsive design tools like CSS @media, but this is the first default theme to fully [/url]

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The developers behind HTML5 Boilerplate have released version 4 of their boilerplate HTML, CSS and javascript templates for quickly prototyping HTML5 designs.

You can grab a copy of HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0 from the HTML5 Boilerplate website.

This release is notable for a number of changes including a snazzy new website, cleaned up and reorganized code and the beginnings of a high-resolution-screen @media

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From the 'Open Source Conference Preview' files:
SAN DIEGO. The fourth annual LinuxCon conference is getting underway this week here in Sunny San Diego. Over the last four years, LinuxCon USA has emerged as one of the preeminent Linux events on Earth, bringing together the best and brightest in a weeklong Linux love-in.
LinuxCon filled the gap that was left behind after the collapse of LinuxWorld (remember that show?) as a vastly superior, technology focused show...

Late Friday, a California jury sided with Apple and found that Samsung violated multiple patents owned by Apple. Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a bitter patent legal battle since 2011 with each side arguing patent infringement.
From a Samsung product perspective, the jury found that multiple Samsung smartphone devices – including the Captivate, Continuum, Epic 4G, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Nexus – infringe on Apple's patents...

The modern world of IT security risks is one that is constantly evolving. It's a reality that Andrzej Kawalec, Global Chief Technology Officer at HP Enterprise Security Services lives and breathes every day.
In an interview with...

The latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser for Android devices is now available in the Google Play Store.

This release continues Mozilla’s move away from the unified Firefox look to one that uses native Android interface elements.

The new native interface for Android tablets means faster start-up times and a much speedier Awesome Bar for searching, but it also means the browser

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Mozilla has released Firefox 15, the latest version of the popular open source web browser.

Unlike some of the minor updates Firefox has seen lately, Firefox 15 brings some significant new features and improvements that make it well worth upgrading.

You can grab the latest version from the Firefox downloads page or if you’re already using Firefox, just check for updates and restart once

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Nothing grabs a user’s attention like a big, full-window video on a landing page. For example, check out Path.com. However, with all the various screens potentially connecting to your site these days, making sure your movie plays full-window on all of them can be tricky.

That’s where BigVideo.js comes in. Developer John Polacek‘s BigVideo is a jQuery plugin for adding big background videos to your site. The plugin makes it easy to drop in a single video URL and get fit-to-fill background video that

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No one wants to waste bandwidth sending large images over limited mobile pipes, but everyone wants their images to look good on the multitude of screens connecting to today’s web. Finding the balance between the myriad factors — screen resolution, screen size, bandwidth, layout and design — is a tricky process.

We’ve looked at a number of techniques for handling images in responsive designs

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Salesforce's annual Dreamforce user conference is coming up in September, and there will be no shortage of new and enhanced product releases. Among the new releases will be Salesforce's major new push into the human capital management (HCM) space.

"At Dreamforce, we're going to be announcing Work.com, which is our rebranding and redevelopment of Rypple," Benioff said.

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