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That Cute Android Wallpaper May Be Sending Your Data to China

Friday - July 30, 2010

Personal data about millions of Android users could be sent to a mysterious Chinese website thanks to a set of wallpaper apps in the Android Market. That's according to mobile security firm Lookout, which discovered the questionable apps as part of its new App Genome Project, an effort to identify security threats in the wild and provide insight into how applications are tapping into personal data and accessing other phone resources. The apps include branded wallpapers from "Star Wars" and "My Little Pony." [More...]

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Europe's Tender Words About FOSS

Thursday - July 29, 2010

There's no denying that everyone needs a little love from time to time, but for those of us in the FOSS community, that need can be particularly acute. After all, rarely a week goes by without some affront from those we had hoped were our friends. Case in point? Dell. Imagine our surprise, then -- nay, outright joy! -- when none other than Neelie Kroes lavished a heaping helping of love upon the FOSS community. [More...]

Motorola Has Its Work Cut Out for It

Thursday - July 29, 2010

At face value, Motorola turned in respectable second quarter earnings: It posted revenue of $5.414 billion, which, although down slightly from the $5.497 billion realized the same period a year earlier, nonetheless beat analyst expectations of approximately $5.19 billion. The company also posted mobile smartphone shipments of 2.7 million units in Q2, up from 2.3 million in the first quarter. Here, doubts begin to set in. [More...]

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Sunbird: Your Calendar, Your Way

Wednesday - July 28, 2010

Sunbird Calendar could prove to be one of your most useful tools. If you work on multiple computers or lack constant access to Web-based apps like Google and Yahoo calendars, you can be cut off from calendar access at very inconvenient times. The Sunbird Calendar solves these and a variety of other problems. [More...]

GNOME Bands With LiMo to Build Mobile Linux Inroads

Tuesday - July 27, 2010

The LiMo Foundation and the GNOME Foundation on Monday announced that they have begun working together as partners to further open source innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation's advisory board and the GNOME Foundation will become an industry liaison partner for the LiMo Foundation. [More...]

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Dell's 'Brilliant' Windows vs. Ubuntu Analysis

Monday - July 26, 2010

Here in the Linux community, we're already pretty accustomed to strange behavior from hardware vendors when it comes to our favorite operating system. Sometimes, though, you just have to sit back and scratch your head. The latest example? None other than Dell. After the curious case of its disappearing "love letter" to Linux, the Texas titan's UK site recently posted something that may be even more mystifying. [More...]

Wikileaks Plunges Political World Into Turmoil

Monday - July 26, 2010

In what's been called the "biggest leak in intelligence history," more than 90,000 classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan came to light on Sunday and are wreaking havoc in political circles around the globe. Covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009, the reports were published Sunday by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. [More...]

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Who You Gonna Call? Q&A With Software Freedom Law Center's Eben Moglen

Friday - July 23, 2010

The Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal representation and other law-related services to open source software developers. The organization began in 2005 under the direction of Eben Moglen, a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School. His law center represents many of the most important and well-established free software and open source projects. [More...]

India Aims to Supply Students With $35 Tablet Computers

Friday - July 23, 2010

Indian officials have unveiled a prototype of a touchscreen computer that will initially cost $35. Eventually, Minister Shri Kapil Sibal said, the price will drop to $20 and then $10. In photos, the device looks much like the sleek tablet-style PCs coming on the market and typified by the iPad. It will offer such standard functionality as word processing, Web browsing and video-conferencing. [More...]

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Is Linux Too Much for One Mere Mortal to Handle?

Thursday - July 22, 2010

Here in the Linux blogosphere, things have been remarkably calm, cool and collected of late. Much, in fact, like the Father of Linux himself, one might say. It should come as no great surprise, then, that the very same man -- Linus Torvalds -- was the subject of some considerable -- albeit well-mannered -- debate. [More...]

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