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Feb 9 2012
12:00am		Enterprise Web Apps: The Next Generation
When the bright folks at Zeebox, a killer social TV site, decided to build their website, they naturally turned to cloud services because they are a startup and had to use their money wisely. They also turned to the Scala language and open source com... more
Feb 9 2012
12:00am		Radio Tray: Tiny Web Radio Player Is Handy but Picks Up Some Static
If you spend a lot of time at your keyboard, no doubt you dabble a lot in listening to Internet radio. Radio Tray is a relatively new Linux app that can make tuning in to your favorite radio stations a new experience. Radio Tray is a streaming playe... more
Feb 8 2012
12:00am		iOS More Crashtastic Than Android
The rivalry between Google and Apple in the cutthroat mobile device world took a new turn recently when mobile-app support platform company Crittercism published a study that found iOS apps crash more often than their Android counterparts. Crittercis... more
Feb 7 2012
12:00am		Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire?
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 o... more
Feb 4 2012
5:49am		Google Hires Bouncer to Give Android Malware the Heave-Ho
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.... more
Feb 4 2012
12:00am		Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd
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 S... more
Feb 3 2012
12:00am		WebOS Swings Along the Open Road
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, th... more
Feb 2 2012
12:00am		SMPlayer: A Flexible, Feature-Filled Media Player With a Frustrating Flaw
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, ... more
Feb 1 2012
12:00am		New Android Scare: Just How Malignant Is That Malware?
Antivirus vendor Symantec announced recently that up to 5 million Android devices may have been infected with a particular type of malware. Multiple publishers were pushing out apps -- some of which were found in the official Android Market -- contai... more
Jan 31 2012
12:00am		Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?
Some of us here in the Linux blogosphere may have hoped for a quieter 2012 than 2011 turned out to be, but so far at least, it doesn't look like we're getting our wish. January appears to have started the year off with a bang. Do we get a little brea... more
Jan 28 2012
12:00am		Vignette Lets Android Photogs Get Their Art On
Vignette differentiates itself from other Android-based camera apps by adding cross-process, tilt-shift, double exposure and other sophisticated effects like infrared, as opposed to the general toy camera and retro effects commonly found. The paid ve... more
Jan 27 2012
12:00am		FOSS' Factious Gender Divide
There's no denying that the FOSS community has many virtues, but gender equality doesn't seem to be one of them. Gender-related issues and tensions have plagued the FOSS world for as long as many of us can remember, and the problem has already been p... more
Jan 26 2012
12:00am		Fotowall Has a Sharp Eye for Sweet Collages
Eye candy can be a great user experience sweetener, but tastes vary widely as to how much is just enough, and it's one differentiator among Linux desktops. Fotowall is a handy app that can spice up your desktop as well as create personalized print an... more
Jan 25 2012
12:00am		CyanogenMod May Start Selling Forbidden Android Fruit
CyanogenMod, which offers aftermarket firmware for Android mobile devices, is apparently planning to sell apps that have been banned from the official Android Market. Koushik Dutta, who writes apps for CyanogenMod, has put up a screenshot of what see... more
Jan 24 2012
12:00am		Windows 8 Secure Boot - or How Microsoft Is Riling Up the Linux Masses
What a difference a week makes. It was just the other day that Linux bloggers were celebrating the news from researcher Net Applications that desktop Linux had surged in popularity in recent months. Now, the mood in the blogosphere has plummeted once... more
Jan 21 2012
12:00am		Ultrabooks, Tablets and the Space Between
The stage is set for a new battle of mobile form factors. The winner could set a new non-desktop standard for consumers and office workers looking for a better alternative to bulky laptops. Lighter, thinner and more powerful are the key factors guidi... more
Jan 20 2012
12:00am		All Hail Debian, King of the Web Server World
There's nothing like a popularity contest to elicit a wide array of opinions, but recently an example appeared in the Linux blogosphere that seems to be something of an exception. "Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers," pr... more
Jan 19 2012
7:56am		Apple Nips at Android's Tail
Apple came close to matching Android's smartphone market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a Nielsen report released Wednesday. The debut of Apple's iPhone 4S in the fall had a major impact on the proportion of smartphones sold in... more
Jan 19 2012
12:00am		LiVES: A Rich Video Editor With Layer Upon Layer of Features
LiVES is an advanced video editor that can double as a video jockey tool. It is surprisingly powerful. But its interface makes it rather simple to learn. In fact, it has so many feature levels that this app would be right at home as the video editor ... more
Jan 18 2012
12:00am		Galaxy Nexus: A Dazzling Phone With an Enormous Appetite
OK, Greenpeace, arrest me now as an eco-criminal. I must have single-handedly deforested a good tract of the Amazon rain forest over the last few days. In mitigation, I plead that this was because of the requirements of my job. I was testing the Sams... more

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