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OSNews: 'Menu entries, buttons - everything has an icon attached to it which often wastes space needlessly by making buttons larger than they need to be, as well as menus wider than they need to be. The good news (for me, at least) is that the next GNOME release will have all these icons removed.'

Spotlight falls on biotechnology executive Arthur Levinson, after Google boss Schmidt resigns part-time role with AppleAmerican regulators will not end their investigation of the links between Google and Apple - despite the fact that the search giant's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has resigned his position as a director of his Silicon Valley rival.Earlier today Apple announced that Schmidt would be stepping down from the company's board of directors, in an attempt to quell concern that the close links between the two companies could promote collusion.But although Schmidt's move eases some of the pressure from regulators, the fact that Apple and Google still share a director has led the Federal Trade Commission to confirm that it will continue its examination of the relationship between the two companies.In a statement released by the commission Richard Feinstein, director of the bureau of competition, said the investigation was not over.'We have been investigating the Google/Apple in

Mobile phone maker INQ is releasing two new handsets boasting support for Twitter and iTunes compatibility, thanks to a deal with one of the internet's best-known hackersMobile phone maker INQ is to follow its first award-winning eponymous mobile phone with two new handsets for the Christmas market.In addition to features the company hopes will appeal to buyers, the new phones will allow users to sync their phones with their iTunes or Windows music players through a deal with San Francisco-based startup DoubleTwist, founded by one of the internet's best-known hackers.INQ's two new 3G phones - the INQ Chat, which has a full keyboard, and INQ Mini - are aimed at the mass market and both allow users to access a host of applications including Twitter, Facebook and Skype as well as instant messaging and email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Google.The original INQ1 has won several awards for bringing internet applications to the mass mobile market since its release last year, but the new devices go

Native Instruments has released its newest instrument collection, Essential Bass, which provides a variety of bass sounds for producing music. The application includes fingered and slapped bass from the sound design house Scarbee, along with picked bass from Pettinhouse and upright bass tracks. The software utilizes ABSYNTH, FM8, MASSIVE, and REAKTOR engines to produce a large selection of bass-sy...

Graphic Remedy has released a beta version of gDEBugger iphone. The software is used to analyze graphic system implementations when developing OpenGL-based titles for the iPhone. OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 are supported, in which users can locate performance bottlenecks, and unnecessary function calls and state changes. The tool also tracks errors and can automatically suspend an app run when errors o...

PowerCenter Cloud Edition uses Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon S3 [storage] to provide access to enterprise data sources such as relational databases, flat files and SaaS applications. - Data integration software provider Informatica has released a beta version of its new PowerCenter Cloud Edition, an enterprise-level data integration tool that can run in the cloud on Amazon Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2). An earlier version of PowerCenter, released in 2006, is currently available as a st...

Pangea has released a new iphone app, The Finger, used to manipulate a 3D hand into different signs. Notable is the presence of an animation editor, which can be used to automate motion between signs to create sign language. As necessary text can be translated into American Sign Language, for teaching or communication.The software incorporates more than 90 built-in gestures, and users can create ...

Microsoft has released a preview of version 2 of its ASP.NET MVC web application development system. - microsoft has released a preview of version 2 of its ASP.NET MVC web application development system. In a blog post on the release, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft .NET Developer Platform, said the new ASP.NET MVC version 2 preview works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 200...

Arten Science announced Monday the release of R10 Cipher 3, an upgrade to the company's file and text encryption and decryption tool. The new version features the addition of Key Management, and increases the encryption strength from 128 bit to 384 bit.

Fuel Games announced Monday the release of Lifeboat 1.0, a new game for iphone and iPod touch where the player has to save passengers off of their sinking ship. To accomplish this, players much use a lifeboat to save the passengers and overcome challenges in the process.