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Google has given Google News a serious makeover, adding more personalization options and organizing everything in a single row of topic headlines. The company announced the changes Wednesday afternoon, but they have been testing ways to improve the ability to customize the Google News page for a while. “We’re also trying to better highlight interesting [...]

If you’ve been one of the many clamoring to see Firefox running on an iPhone, you may get your chance–of sorts. Back in late May, Mozilla announced that it would be creating an iPhone version of its Firefox browser. On Wednesday, Mozilla submitted its Firefox Home iPhone app to Apple for testing–and, it hopes, for [...]

Open source ERP (enterprise resource planning) software may still represent a small chunk of the overall market, but as a concept it has clearly gained a critical mass of adherents. Two open source ERP suites, xTuple and ADempiere, were listed as the two “most active” projects Wednesday on SourceForge, which bills itself as the world’s [...]

Red Hat has come up with an interesting sales pitch that seems to benefit rival Microsoft as much as Red Hat. At last week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat company executives repeatedly said that only two IT vendors have all the software necessary to build an entire cloud, and allow workloads to move [...]

MeeGo, a Linux Foundation effort to provide a mobile version of Linux, moves on Wednesday to “Day 1″ of the MeeGo Handset User Experience project, with developers able to access handset baseline source code and leverage touch capabilities, MeeGo representatives said. The code is primarily intended for platform developers, handset vendors, and operators. Accessible at [...]

Just over two months after launching it, and days after reducing the price, Microsoft has decided to kill the Kin phone. Microsoft began offering the phone in mid-April on Verizon’s network. The two models of the Kin were aimed at young people, with prominent social-networking ties. [ Stay up on tech news and reviews from [...]

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Mozilla had to restart an effort to overhaul Firefox’s extension technology, but the Jetpack reboot is steadily coming together. Mozilla has released five beta versions of the Jetpack Software Developer Kit, a package that puts a friendly face on Firefox’s inner workings so that extensions can do things such as open new tabs, add menu [...]

Google users inside of China are unable to use Google’s search suggestions feature, as Google awaits word on its ultimate fate in China. Ever since Google announced it would offer Chinese language search out of Hong Kong rather than mainland China, it has maintained a “Mainland China service availability” page to track which Google services [...]