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Softpedia: "After six month of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 is finally here, bringing beautiful new features, various software updates, and lots of performance improvements."

TuxArena: "This new release, codenamed 'Xiphophorus', comes with several new features and a small bug fix."

This week wasthe launch of the first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-powered device in the U.S., which yields over 500 new software improvements.

Here are seven of the most important improvements.

Phoronix: Here's some new features and other upcoming work that may excite Linux enthusiasts in the Phoronix software/hardware playground.

Developer.com: The new SVN 1.7 release adds new features such as HTTPv2 and WC-NG that improve performance and make version control more efficient for developers.

omg ubuntu: A new release of open-source Evernote ‘clone' ‘NixNote' has been made available for download.

One of the most anticipated new features coming to Mac OS X Lion is iCloud, the Web-based service that will replace Apple’s MobileMe.

The latest update for Lion (10.7.2) is now available as a beta build for developers, and it reportedly introduces iCloud integration (in addition to a few bug fixes).

This is a good sign that iCloud will...

Ubuntu Vibes: "Open Source and Cross Platform flight simulator game FlightGear has reached version 2.4 after being in development for 6 months bringing in many impressive new features and fixes."

Houcem's Blog: "Nmap is one of the best security software in the world. It is free and open source. It is actively developed and new features and improvements are added to it on a daily basis."

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