We go back in time and take a look at what you missed at SELF 2016. Plus we’re 1% closer to the Linux Desktop, why Evernote sucks & more!

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Linux Reaches 2%

Infinity:One is OLPC XO’s bigger, more responsible sibling

Evernote limits free tier to two devices, raises prices 40%

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Apple wants into the VR game, Amazon can get you a package in an hour & Microsoft is ready to let you build apps for the Xbox.

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Amazon’s One-Hour Delivery Service Goes Live Across Manhattan | TechCrunch

The one-hour delivery program is called Amazon Prime Now, and it offers free two-hour delivery from 6am to 12am, with one-hour delivery available for an extra $7.99. Prime Now is applicable to products like paper towels, shampoo, books, toys, batteries, and other general household items.

Microsoft is ready to unleash Xbox One apps | The Verge

Microsoft is planning to open up its Xbox One apps platform in a big way this summer. While the software maker has remained consistently quiet around its timing for cross-platform (universal) apps running on its gaming console, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company will start to allow more and more apps on the Xbox One by the end of the year. Microsoft is planning to detail its plans fully at the company’s Build developer conference in April, but we understand they’ll involve allowing developers to turn retail Xbox One units into developer kits.

KICKSTARTER of the WEEK: Women In Tech: The Book! by Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack

Hi, I’m Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack, and I’m writing the book “Women In Tech” with a host of amazing collaborators! Our goal is a positive message of information and inspiration!

Women In Tech: The Book | WTR 14

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Microsoft has bought Mojang, the creators of Minecraft. We discuss how this will impact the community, Linux users, independent developers & gamers.

Android One starts to ship, and the details are fascinating. Plus more details on a recent NSA leak & more!

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Microsoft buys Mojang, Minecraft: Five reasons it makes strategic sense | ZDNet

Microsoft on Monday confirmed the $2.5 billion acquisition. The company said that the company will be break even on earnings in fiscal 2015. Mojang will join Microsoft Studios.

Here’s why the deal, which will be panned by some, makes strategic sense.

1. Mojang gives Microsoft an asset and community that could cultivate a younger demographic. If you’ve ever seen an elementary school kid go into a Minecraft coma you know the power that Mojang has. To younger customers, Microsoft’s core brand is really Xbox. If Microsoft is going to have an installed base to up sell as these customers move to smartphones to tablets to PCs to enterprise applications and cloud Minecraft is a good place to start.

2. The future of Microsoft revolves around mobile and cross-platform applications. Office is about iOS and Android as much as it is Windows Phone and Windows. Microsoft’s enterprise applications may have some perks for Windows, but also need to play across all mobile platforms. Skype is cross platform too. Minecraft gives Microsoft a property that plays well on the desktop, iOS and Android. And since Minecraft will be owned by Microsoft at least there will be a Windows Phone version too.

3. Minecraft could be the next Lego-like franchise. It won’t be hard to find a group of people that’ll say that Minecraft has peaked and Microsoft is paying too much for a declining asset. However, Minecraft could be the digital equivalent of Legos, which spark the imagination and have become an introductory course to robotics and engineering.

4. Mojang would make an Xbox spin-off more feasible should Microsoft go that route. Yes, we know that Microsoft has noted that it is keeping Xbox, but Minecraft would give the gaming unit another key title to go along with games like Halo. The addition of Mojang makes Xbox stronger whether Microsoft decides to keep the unit or spin it off to focus on the enterprise and cloud.

5. Microsoft gets to use its overseas cash pile. Based on current tax laws, Microsoft’s overseas cash can’t be brought back into the U.S. without a hefty hit. As a result, U.S. companies are increasingly buying international assets. Microsoft’s purchase of Mojang is its fourth international company acquisition in 2014. Most of the acquisitions were of the plug-in variety to add features and or services to existing product lines.

• Report: Microsoft’s $2B deal to buy Minecraft studio was instigated by Notch | Polygon

According to the Bloomberg story, Xbox chief Phil Spencer has been wooing Persson in person, flying out to have dinners with the Mojang founder. According to one source, Microsoft thinks that it can expand Minecraft’s reach in both the game and licensed property. A Minecraft movie is currently in the works, and Mojang has already licensed books, toys and a plethora of other merchandise.

• Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions | Reuters

The software company’s Windows Phone system has only 2.5 percent of the world’s smartphone market, and its Surface tablet barely more, according to tech research firm IDC. Growth is hampered because many app and game developers ignore it.

It seems like Microsoft is looking at Mojang and Minecraft as a way to tap into this enormous cultural phenomenon,” said Dave Bisceglia, Chief Executive of independent game studio Tap Lab. “If you look at iOS, Minecraft has been a top-grossing game for quite some time, if Microsoft could on Windows phones give players a unique and compelling experience that you can’t get on the other platforms, that could be a driver to sell devices to existing Minecraft fans.”

• Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

• Minecraft to Join Microsoft

• I’m leaving Mojang | notch.net

Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom – SPIEGEL ONLINE

A program called Treasure Map even has its own logo, a skull superimposed onto a compass, the eye holes glowing in demonic red, reminiscent of a movie poster for the popular “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, starring Johnny Depp.

Treasure Map is anything but harmless entertainment. Rather, it is the mandate for a massive raid on the digital world. It aims to map the Internet, and not just the large traffic channels, such as telecommunications cables. It also seeks to identify the devices across which our data flows, so-called routers.

Furthermore, every single end device that is connected to the Internet somewhere in the world — every smartphone, tablet and computer — is to be made visible. Such a map doesn’t just reveal one treasure. There are millions of them.

The breathtaking mission is described in a Treasure Map presentation from the documents of the former intelligence service employee Edward Snowden which SPIEGEL has seen. It instructs analysts to “map the entire Internet — Any device, anywhere, all the time.”

Android One smartphones released in India by three companies

The handsets provide a minimum set of features determined by Google, which has sourced several of the components to help cut manufacturing costs.

The company has also teamed up with a local network to make it cheaper to download Android updates and new apps.

The first Android One devices are made by Micromax – already India’s bestselling mobile-phone maker – Karbonn and Spice.

To meet Google’s minimum standards they all have:

• a 4.5in (11.4cm) display
• 1GB of RAM (random-access memory)
• a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front one
• a quadcore processor sourced from Taiwanese company Mediatek
• the ability to run the next version of Android, due for release soon

In addition, they have been tailored to suit the local market by including a micro-SD (Secure Digital) slot, a replaceable battery, a built-in FM radio and the ability to support two Sim cards simultaneously.

The first batch of phones could be offered for as low as 6,399 rupees ($105; £65) if bought contract-free.

About 400 million smartphones will be sold in India over the next five years, according to a forecast by PricewaterhouseCoopers, with the majority bought at Android One’s price point.

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We revisit Sabayon Linux, a Gentoo based rolling distribution. Find out the how this distribution has leapfrogged the competition, and where we feel it could use some extra work.

Plus highlights from Linus recent Q&A, Ubuntu One shuts down, XP’s death is near…

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Sabayon Linux Review

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Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon follows the “out of the box” philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.

Sabayon Linux features a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon is available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there is support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.

• The installer feels a bit dated.

• Uses systemd not OpenRC

• Does not assume a tone of big and corporate. Dialogs are clear, and honest. Even a little fun.

• Install and Download Process feels dates, download is not user friendly.

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Weekly Spotlight

The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale

Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping.

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Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has switched to Google Chromebooks to migrate from Windows XP, which Microsoft will no longer support after 8 April.

The council is working with Google enterprise partner, Ancoris, and its joint venture outsourcing provider, Elevate East London, to roll out 1,500 Chromebooks and 500 Chromeboxes.

Ubuntu One falls from the clouds

But as of June 1st, 2014, syncing will stop. On July 31st, 2014, all data will be wiped. Ubuntu One will be no more.

• Ubuntu One storage and music service shut down by Canonical

“As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store,” Canonical CEO Jane Silber wrote. “The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted.”

“Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB–50GB free storage,” Silber wrote. “If we offer a service, we want it to compete on a global scale, and for Ubuntu One to continue to do that would require more investment than we are willing to make.”

• Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

The shutdown will not affect the Ubuntu One single sign on service, the Ubuntu One payment service, or the backend U1DB database service.

Linus Torvalds not happy with systemd author Kay Sievers

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Is the Xbox One the next big App platform? We’ll share theories. Plus where do books fit in for self education? Are they too slow, or is there a place for the printed medium in a rapidly developing industry?

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Mike’s had his Ouya for a couple weeks and shares his review, plus Microsoft announces the Xbox One but the developer situation seems a bit murky.

Meanwhile Chris suspects the world is ignoring the big chances Apple could dominate the living in just a few minutes, with the push of some bits.

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“The whole point of the Oracle Google suit was that Oracle was passed that Google didn\’t use their VM but instead wrote their own VM based on the open Java language specifications. So given that I don\’t see Java language specification being closed any time soon, and that Google are unlikely to drop their Dalvik implementation (especially after basically getting a soft slap on the wrist in the courts), TechCrunch\’s Java question was stupid, Larry Page fscked up not calling them out (maybe he was sick) and you guys should have picked up in this.”

• Mike is developing an HTML5 tool and asks if we feel the Apple Mac App Store is more profitable than the Chrome Webstore and WinRT Store combined.

• Spindl — Zane’s new Ubuntu app:https://zaneswafford.com/hamburger/ AKA Hamburger project

• Matt asks what we think of Openshift v Heroku and if we think Google is likely to kill Go

• Trond asks if he should use C or C++ for an OSS library

• Michael bought a year of Godaddy using our code (nice) and wonders what PHP MVC framework he should try

• Chris asks if we think Xbox One will have an XNA like SDK — if so what will it be?

Ouya Review

• Ouya review: can an indie console take on Sony and Microsoft? | The Verge

Let\’s say everything goes exactly right for Ouya. Every good game in the Play Store becomes available to Ouya, Netflix and Amazon decide to play nice with the device, and the ROM and hacker community explode and make every app and many more available to the nascent platform. Then and only then, Ouya can be viable — if it can combine a decent set-top box with a decent gaming platform, it may have a case to make for your $99. But those are a lot of cards that have to fall a particular way, and without them the Ouya is a lot more like a Raspberry Pi than an Xbox 360.

• This is OUYA! – IGN

Anyway that was my experience with the console. It\’s still early, but the platform seems to be shaping up nicely. Only time will tell if it can actually grab the attention of gamers everywhere.

• Ouya: The infinite garage sale | Joystiq

It\’s difficult not to weigh the Ouya\’s current shortcomings against all of its grand, much-publicized promise, but all of that grandiosity has to be reconciled with an important fact: The Ouya costs $99. Even if competent mobile ports are the best games the Ouya ever gets, that\’s an incredibly low barrier of entry for consumers and developers alike. How many good games does it take to be considered a good return on a $99 investment? One? Five? 10?

XBox One For Devs

• Is Microsoft abandoning indie game developers with the Xbox One? – NBC News.com

So the leaders of the indie game community clearly weren\’t thrilled by the Xbox One reveal. But does that mean that Microsoft is hanging them out to dry? Possibly. An independent developer who has worked with Microsoft in the past told NBC News that \”premium\” has become something of a buzzword for the company\’s new console, as if to emphasize that the company wants to maintain a strong hand in curating all gaming content that appears on XBLA.

• Xbox One opinions from developers vary on Kinect 2, TV centric focus

A few developers have weighed in on the Xbox One reveal, with many citing confusion over why we have to have Kinect 2 enabled all the time, and why the main focus was on the television aspect of the console — and not the games.

• Kinect lets you interact with ads, may spy on your mood – NBC News.com

Microsoft on Thursday revealed new details about its \”NUads,\” which are coming to Xbox Live this fall. NUads are interactive advertisements that put the Kinect\’s motion-sensing and voice-detecting abilities to work.

• Microsoft Files Patent for Ad-Serving Tech That Senses Mood | Digital – Advertising Age

In an application filed in December 2010 but just made public last week, Microsoft sought to patent an advertising engine that gauges people\’s emotional states based on their search queries, emails, instant messages and use of online games, as well as facial expressions, speech patterns and body movements. The ad engine is device-agnostic; as Microsoft noted in its application, \”client devices\” could include personal digital assistants, smart phones, laptops, PCs and gaming devices.

• Patent Suggest Kinect Could Charge Per Person When Playing A Movie

A patent filed by Microsoft indicates that Kinect could count the number of viewers watching (or playing) content and allow the content supplier to charge a fee per person.

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Today marks an action day in history, we review Ubuntu 10.10 on October 10th 2010.. AT 10:00AM! Has the desktop Linux quality bar been set to a whole new level, or just received some simple polish? We give you the details!

The future of MeeGo came into question this week, but our gut tells us everything is going to A-OK, we discuss!

Plus we share our thoughts on why an Amazon App market for Android could be a great thing… Plus so much more!

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