— Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire?

   (Monday, 06 February 2012 08:00)

Now that webOS is making its merry way along the open road, there's no telling what tablets or other mobile devices it may inspire over the upcoming months. In the meantime, the Linux world is all abuzz over what promises to be the very first fully open tablet out there: the Spark, a device slated to ship in May from none other than the KDE Plasma Active community itself.

— Google Hires Bouncer to Give Android Malware the Heave-Ho

   (Friday, 03 February 2012 13:49)

Google announced a new layer of security for its Android Market on Thursday, unveiling a program called "Bouncer" that will automatically scan apps for malware. Bouncer works by analyzing each app as it's uploaded to the Market, scanning for threats, spyware and trojans.

— Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd

   (Friday, 03 February 2012 08:00)

The recently announced Spark tablet might prove to be the first Linux-running open source tablet fully capable of being modded by users. It has an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware, and it will come with an open content and services market. The Spark will come under the GNU General Public License from its inception.

— WebOS Swings Along the Open Road

   (Thursday, 02 February 2012 08:00)

When HP announced late last year that it would open source webOS, it was hard not to be skeptical. After all, it would be all too easy for a company to whitewash its own abandonment of a project by grandly "donating it to the community." However, that pessimistic view is beginning to fade, thanks to HP's publication last month of an official road map for its webOS plans.

— SMPlayer: A Flexible, Feature-Filled Media Player With a Frustrating Flaw

   (Wednesday, 01 February 2012 08:00)

When it comes to playing audio and video files in Linux, media players pretty much all work the same way and have a very similar user interface. It usually all comes down to features. With SMPlayer it depends on what you want to play. Unfortunately, this bug of sorts is something its developer Ricardo Villalba has yet to resolve in the latest release, version 0.7.0.

— next-20120207: linux-next

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 00:57)

— 3.2.5: stable

   (Monday, 06 February 2012 12:47)

— 3.0.20: stable

   (Monday, 06 February 2012 12:31)

— 2.6.32.56: stable

   (Friday, 03 February 2012 12:28)

— 3.3-rc2: mainline

   (Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:32)

— Kubuntu Is Dead, Time To Switch To Linux Mint KDE, openSUSE?

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 06:32)

I heard some rumors at the FOSDEM that Canonical was pulling plugs on KDE, which also creates the Kubuntu spin of Ubuntu. What it meant, if the rumors were to be believed, that KDE won't have a great integration with Ubuntu.

— Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire?

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 05:35)

"it is good to see Linux entering the tablet space ... [but] the Spark is the wrong device to start with," said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. "My first issue is the price: The $138 Android tablet is transformed into a $260 Linux tablet. By the time this hits the market, Android equivalents will be selling for $99 or less." The Spark's hardware, meanwhile, "is lackluster."

— iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 04:20)

Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberwareSiri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with the I-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siri stories.…

— How to customize Linux Mint 12 KDE

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 03:23)

This article provides simple suggestions that you can employ to customize an installation of Linux Mint 12 KDE that would make it a little bit more user-friendly and fun to use.Step 1. Apply updates – By default, the first time you log into any installation of Linux Mint 12 KDE, new or old, the system will check for updates 30 seconds after you log in and every 15 minutes afterwards. To ensure that you are running the latest software versions, it is best to apply or install any available updates pronto. But do you want the system to be checking for updates every 15 minutes?

— Debian News On Android Devices

   (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 02:25)

Pinenuts Android Developers have updated their app called Debian News which offers Debian only news. According to the app detailes, "The app supports easily sharing the news with your friends via Facebook, email, Twitter and all the other apps you have installed on your phone."