GRUB2 has recently released its version 1.98 with many added functionalities. The last version of GRUB, GRUB 1.97 was later renamed to GRUB2 before the release.

The last time Google made an attempt to get its Android code into the Linux kernel, it failed. But, this time in a recent reply to ZDNet, Google’s Chris DiBona has accepted the possible of an inclusion this time.

Google has announced an acquisition of the famous online collaborative tool DocVerse. The news of the acquisition surfaced in December last year and now it is through. There was another possible rumor of the acquisition of PDFMeNot.

Berend-Jan Wever, a Google security software engineer has recently cracked DEP through a buffer overflow attack. DEP was introduced in Windows XP.

The Mozilla Home Tab design contest winning entry has been put on Youtube with an excellent video which explains all the features offered by this design.

Out of process plugin has appeared on the recent developer preview released by Firefox. The Alpha 2 release of Firefox 4.0 has many new features.

The Open Source projects hosted under the banner of Sun have all come under direct handling of Oracle and include some of the most popular technologies of today like Java, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, Glassfish, Virtualbox etc.

The Ubisoft latest DRM was cracked BY Skidrow within a day of its release. It was used on a submarine simulator game Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have achieved a tech-marvel by moving a step further in cracking RSA. The seemingly secure public key encryption algorithm was last cracked on 7th January 2010. The encryption in the last crack was 768 bit but this time, the crack is on a 1024 bit encryption.

Ubuntu has released the final changelog for its feature list. The features have been decided after months of development and inclusion of varied themes and artwork.

The concept of 3D browsing is not new though. Some gaming companies have brought plugins which allow us to browse websites in 3D but with RT Fact, we will not need any plugin. The technology here will make use of the XML3D part of the HTML language.

The Music Store will be powered by 7Digital which offers a large selection of songs without DRM protection at a 256 Kbps bitrate and of high quality.

Novell the company behind Suse Linux has recently received an unsolicited buyout offer from a hedge fund. The offer states the value of Novell at $1.8 billion.

Washington post, took a step quite different from others. Don Graham, the CEO of Washington Post said on Tuesday that the site will not charge for online content, but will charge users though an iPhone app which will be a paid service.

SoftMaker Office 2010 is available for a free public beta testing for Linux users. The Office suite matches Microsoft Office in functionality and is and the best alternative to MS Office on the Windows platform and to OpenOffice.org on Linux.