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ownCloud web-based storage app hits version 2.0 – The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 2.0 of the open, web-based storage application includes a new user interface and support for calendar and address book syncing, and has a new music player with an Ampache server for streaming to desktop players

Adobe: the biggest WebKit contributor you didn’t know about – The H Open Source: News and Features: Buying PhoneGap just as it turns into an Apache Incubator project is perfectly in line with Adobe’s new approach to open source as the place where the innovation is happening, Adobe’s director of open source Dave McAllister tells…

German researchers crack RFID cards – The H Security: News and Features: Researchers at Ruhr University in Bochum have succeeded in copying the key from one make of RFID card. This enables them to clone the cards, which are used by companies such as transport operators

Key logging virus infects US military drones – The H Security: News and Features: The virus has so far resisted all attempts to remove it; however no data loss or damage has been reported

US government continues to target WikiLeaks volunteer – The H Security: News and Features: Security specialist Jacob Appelbaum remains a target for US government agencies. A controversial law is now being used to force Google and ISP Sonic.net to hand over information on their customers

CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released – Update – The H Open Source: News and Features: Following several delays, version 7.1 of the CyanogenMod project’s custom Android firmware has been released. Based on Android 2.3.7, it adds support for a number of devices, and new features and enhancements. A beta version of version 7.1 is…

CyanogenMod 7.1 custom Android firmware released – Update – The H Open Source: News and Features: Following several delays, version 7.1 of the CyanogenMod project’s custom Android firmware has been released. Based on Android 2.3.7, it adds support for a number of devices, and new features and enhancements. A beta version of version 7.1 is…

Transmission BitTorrent client update adds torrent queuing – The H Open Source: News and Features: The new stable release brings improvements on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, adds torrent queuing and GTK+ 3 support, and updates the Web Client. A bug that caused the application to crash on all supported platforms has also been fixed

Google begins to detail Dart – The H Open Source: News and Features: Google have pulled the covers back on the Dart language, its web-oriented alternative to JavaScript

Copyright claim against time zone database – The H Open Source: News and Features: The reference database for time zone information is no longer available. Its data is used by all versions of Unix and Linux and by many web sites and Java applications