The new version - 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope - includes some useful improvements and delivers higher reliability than the last few Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 9.04 will ship with GNOME 2.26, which introduces UPnP support for totem and MAPI support for the Evolution e-mail client. It also includes version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel, in which the new Ext4 filesystem is designated as stable.
James Edwards has a fun little list that dares to dream about life after IE 6. There is a list of 10 things that we can look forward to in that sunny time.
On Friday, the court convicted Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström of charges related to copyright infringement and sentenced each to a year in jail and fined the group the equivalent of $3.6 million.
Days after four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case were found guilty of violating copyright law, the Web site implored fans to stay calm, not to send donations, and to stay united.
After April 14, the company will provide "extended" support for another five years until April 8, 2014. However, extended support only includes free security fixes along with paid per-incident support as well as support contracts.
Microsoft already has pushed via Auto Update the final version of Internet Explorer 8 to customers who had installed the beta version of its latest browser. Starting next week, the company plans to begin delivering IE 8 via Automatic Update to users with older versions of IE installed.
Bluetooth 3.0 will bring with it dramatically-improved file transfer speeds by using 802.11 technology that will enable the transfer of much larger files. Right on schedule, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is preparing to launch the Bluetooth 3.0 specification on April 21.
Swedish startup Xcerion launched the public beta-test of iCloud, a virtual desktop aimed at consumers and mobile workers, which it hopes to develop into an application marketplace comparable to Apple's App Store.
iCloud offers a web-based desktop available from any internet-connected PC and offering a set of productivity, developer, media and communications applications.
Read MoreYahoo has unveiled its new, more social Yahoo Music. The new site opens Yahoo's doors to content from YouTube, Last.fm, Flickr, and Pandora, and features affiliate links to iTunes Store and Amazon downloads alongside its partnership with Real's rival Rhapsody service. The changes may make the property a more appealing resource, but they could also turn Yahoo Music into less of a destination and more of a forgettable middleman.
According to Google Code blog, mobile team started thinking about how they could bring the benefits of the server-side approach to the clients. They started thinking about a world where they could deliver a GUI specified in XML to a Java ME client, enabling them to iterate on the server side and deliver new features that could delight users when they were ready, rather than on a lengthy release cycle.
Although Firefox 3.5 is yet to be released, Mozilla has already started planning the next version, which has tentatively been designated 3.6, with the codename Namoroka. Firefox 3.6 is loosely scheduled for release in 2010.