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LibreOffice 4.2 brings new features for power and enterprise users
The Document Foundation has released the latest version of the popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 4.2 is said to feature “a large number of performance and interoperability improvements targeted to users of all kinds, but particularly appealing for power and enterprise users”.
The Foundation said that Calc has gone through the largest code refactoring ever, giving major performance wins for big data (especially when calculating cell values, and importing large and complex XLSX spreadsheets), while an optional new formula interpreter enables massively parallel calculation of formula cells using the GPU via OpenCL. The latter works best with a Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) such as the new AMD Kaveri APU.
The latest release also offers round-trip interoperability with Microsoft OOXML, particularly for DOCX, as well as legacy RTF. Also, new import filters for Abiword documents and Apple Keynote presentations have been added.
Source: http://www.muktware.com/
Major setbacks for two new smartphone OSs, Tizen and Ubuntu Touch
Will 2014 be the year when scrappy new challengers take on the might of Android and iOS? Never say never, but the challenge won’t come from Tizen nor Ubuntu Touch.
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has indefinitely suspended its plans for a Tizen phone launch this year, and Ubuntu backer Canonical has admitted that there’s unlikely to be any Ubuntu handset coming from a major manufacturer or carrier this year.
And then there’s Ubuntu Touch, which is basically the venerable desktop Linux distribution wrangled into mobile form. It’s a very intriguing concept — for smartphone or tablet use, it displays like a normal mobile OS, but connect it to a monitor and keyboard and it suddenly turns into the desktop version.
This has great potential, particularly in the enterprise, but British Ubuntu backer Canonical had a rough second half of 2013. First it failed to hit an incredibly lofty $32 million crowdfunding goal for the Ubuntu Edge, a high-end handset that was intended to showcase what the OS could do with powerful hardware – this was good for getting the name out there, as Canonical did still manage to break the record for the most money pledged in a crowdfunding drive, but manufacturers may not have seen it as a ringing endorsement.
Then Canonical’s timetable slipped – the October 2013 release of Ubuntu was supposed to be the one where all that mobile-desktop harmony came in, but it turned out that Ubuntu’s new touch-friendly Mir display server was only ready for mobile, not desktop. Hopefully full convergence will come in April, in Ubuntu 14.04.
Last month, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth said the firm had signed up a manufacturer to ship Ubuntu on high-end phones sometime in 2014. “We are now pretty much at the board level on four household brands,” he added.
Source: http://gigaom.com/
Firefox OS beats Ubuntu to smart TVs
Mozilla has partnered with Panasonic to put Firefox OS on smart TVs.
The web-based OS has so far been confined to mobile, with the first budget smartphones arriving last year, and facing stiff competition from Android.
Now Panasonic has plumped for Firefox OS to power its next-generation smart TVs - largely due to its use of HTML5.
According to Panasonic, adopting HTML5 should make it easer for third-party developers to build apps for its televisions.
For example, developers could use Mozilla's WebAPIs to build software for tracking and controlling smart appliances round the home - making the TV, rather than the smartphone, the centre for the smart home.
Panasonic added that it would open up core functions, such as TV menus, to developers. “In next-generation smart TVs, basic functions, such as menus and [programme guides], which are currently written as embedded programs, will be written in HTML5, making it possible for developers to easily create applications for smartphones or tablets to remotely access and operate the TV,” the company said.
Neither company has released further details of new hardware or what the OS looks like. Panasonic said the first smart TVs running Firefox OS would arrive later this year, but didn't reveal pricing or UK availability.
The partnership means Mozilla has pipped Canonical to the post in bringing its open-source OS to televisions. Canonical announced plans to bring Ubuntu to smartphones, tablets and TVs in 2011 - but has only just found its first mobile partner.
In an interview with PC Pro last year, founder Mark Shuttleworth suggested the company still planned to bring Ubuntu to TVs eventually. “Ubuntu TV has been folded into the mobile codebase,” he said. “We’re now working on production. It might be phone in this release, tablet in the next release and, ultimately, everything converged.”
Meanwhile, Mozilla said a tablet version of Firefox OS should arrive later this year. “As we move along in 2014, you will see the tablet version of Firefox OS mature, and at some point it should be ready for consumer-facing devices,” Andreas Gal, vice president of Mobile, told eWeek. “The reference hardware with Foxconn is targeted at developers that want to help us build the tablet version of Firefox OS.”
Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/