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Web Upd8: "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1)."

CIO: "The little hobby project from Finland turned 20, rolled over the 3.0 milestone, and dominated almost everything from mobile devices to supercomputers."

uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. just announced that the BitTorrent Mainline client and uTorrent have hit the milestone of 150 million monthly users.

Together both clients increased their user base by more than 50 percent compared to last year, and the end of this surge is not yet in sight.

Stuart Dredge: Google breaks down its milestone by category while chairman Eric Schmidt predicts developer upswing in 2012

Last week, after a three-month "invite only" period, Google+ opened its doors to everyone, and new users flooded the fledgling social networking site.

openSUSE: The openSUSE community is happy to announce that the 6th Milestone of the upcoming release will be renamed openSUSE 12.1 Beta 1.

Linux Planet: The issue of open source license compliance is not a difficult one to deal with if you know what to look for.

Ratification of HTML 5 is on track for 2014. The Last Call milestone, reached on May 24, opens up the HTML 5 Working Draft specification for final testing and broad public comment.

The Apple App Store hit the 10 billion app download mark overnight on Friday, marking a milestone involving an awful lot of Doodle Jump, Tap Tap Revenge and Angry Birds playing, not to mention Facebook and Pandora usage.

Cal Evans is back with the latest part of his "Be a Better Client" series of posts focusing on how the person asking for the work to be done can interface with those doing the work more effectively.

This time his recommendation is about deadlines.