● 02.16.11

● Links 16/2/2011: Google Claims 350,000 Daily Activations of Android/Linux, Firefox 4 Release Imminent

Posted in News Roundup at 2:39 am by Dr. Roy SchestowitzContentsGNU/LinuxGNU/Linux

↺ 10 ways to e-publish with Linux
↺ As Linux becomes easier it can be more dangerous.

Ballnux

↺ LG Puts 3D on Optimus Smartphone, World Waits to See Why
↺ MetroPCS preps LTE-ready Samsung Indulge phone for sale this week
↺ Samsung readies dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC with GPS
↺ Samsung joins Honeycomb club with Galaxy Tab 10.1
↺ Next-gen Galaxy S phones offer dual-core CPU, super-thin profile

Applications

↺ Evernote For Linux: Nevernote
↺ Minus Desktop App for Linux Lets You Drag-N-Drop Photos Into Taskbar for Instant Upload

Instructionals/Technical

↺ The Perfect Desktop – Debian Squeeze
↺ Advanced IP subnet calculator sipcalc
↺ The 10 Days of awk
↺ Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin
↺ How to organize your stuff

Desktop Environments

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC)

↺ conf.kde.in Announces Talks, Keynotes and Registration

Distributions

↺ Why I Use Gentoo: Conclusion

New Releases

↺ Canaima 3.0-vc1
↺ Openwall Current-20110212
↺ 8.1 Untangle Community Webinar
↺ Pinguy 10.04.2
↺ IPFire 2.9 – Core 46
↺ Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon) released
↺ Welcome to Tiny Core Linux
↺ 2011-02-15: CRUX PPC 2.7 released!

Red Hat Family

↺ Red Hat Moving Above Resistance
↺ SHARES OF WAVE SYSTEMS POTENTIALLY OVERVALUED IN TERMS OF ITS PRICE TO LAST QUARTER ANNUALIZED SALES RATIO (WAVX, VMW, ROVI, N, RHT)
↺ AFTER YESTERDAY’S RALLY OF 1.52%, RED HAT SHARES COULD POTENTIALLY PULLBACK (RHT)
↺ Executive Spotlight: Paul Smith of Red Hat
↺ Red Hat Linux 6.2

Debian Family

↺ Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite

Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ Ubuntu Netbook Edition review
↺ Man seeks used laptops to refurbish, give to students
↺ Ubuntu Developer Week 2011: February 28th – March 4th

Flavours and Variants

↺ One Should Look for What Is (Not What One Thinks Should Be)

Devices/Embedded

↺ Wind River Android tools add Honeycomb, tablet support
↺ Marvell tips UMTS/TD-SCDMA combo chip, new open source dev platform

Phones

↺ HP’s WebOS takes on Android and iOS

Nokia/MeeGo/Maemo

↺ Nokia shareholders start rebellion and plan a company coup
↺ MeeGo After Nokia: ‘I Will Survive’ or ‘Where Did Our Love Go’?

Android

↺ Android has 150k apps, 350k daily activations, and more notes from Eric Schmidt’s MWC keynote
↺ Broadcom spins single- and dual-core A9 SoCs for Android
↺ Android-based Cloud handsets focus on Facebook
↺ Sony Ericsson launches Android phone with slide-out gamepad

Tablets

↺ Honeycomb Hysteria: Pad Madness Strikes MWC
↺ Android Sharpens Its NFC Chops With Gingerbread Bump
↺ Qualcomm spins a Snapdragon for video-savvy tablets
↺ Industry debates HP’s desktop ambitions for WebOS
↺ HTC’s Flyer tablet features pen interface, Android 2.4
↺ Acer reveals seven- and 10.1-inch tablets plus Iconia Smart phone
↺ Intel showcases industry support for MeeGo, demos new tablet version

Free Software/Open Source

↺ Christchurch IT scene: Free and open source
↺ 53 Open Source Replacements to Spice Up Your Desktop

Web Browsers

Chrome

↺ 21 Must Try Chrome Extensions!

Mozilla

↺ Ready for Firefox 4

Government

↺ Open Source Finds a Friend in Big Government

Standards/Consortia

↺ HTML5 kicked into 2014

Leftovers

↺ Accuracy of search engine results called into question

Defence/Police/Aggression

↺ Firing range owner sounds off
↺ This time, the people of Haiti may win
↺ Pentagon budget largest ever as security threat list grows
↺ The Eleventh Annual Herzliya Conference: The Balance of Israel’s National Security
↺ Panel Review Questions FBI Theory in Anthrax Attacks After 9/11
↺ Government tough-on-crime policies worsening prison conditions, guards say
↺ Pentagon Faces Class Action Suit Exposing Military Sexual Abuse Crisis

Cablegate

↺ WikiLeaks Backers Fight Twitter Data Demand in Probe
↺ The Forgotten Man: Bradley Manning (2011) 3/3

Environment/Energy/Wildlife

↺ English forest sell-off put on hold
↺ Taking Climate Denial to New Extremes
↺ Climate change forces UK rare fish reintroduction further north
↺ Chevron Runs From Judgment in Ecuador

Finance

↺ State of Michigan settles with Goldman Sachs
↺ Former F.D.I.C. Deal Maker Joins Goldman Sachs
↺ When Factories Vanish, So Can Innovators
↺ Imagining Life Without Fannie and Freddie
↺ At Last, Bernie Madoff Gives Back
↺ JPMorgan to Start Social Media Fund
↺ Housing: For many cities “another season of pain”
↺ Who’s Unemployed?
↺ Ron Paul, opponent of the Fed and fan of the gold standard, a lone wolf no more
↺ Federal investigators expose vast web of insider trading

PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying

↺ Protect Honesty in Canadian Journalism

Censorship

↺ Man arrested after Crawley fan ‘mocks Munich air crash’

Internet/Net Neutrality/UBB

↺ The Fourth-Stupidest Thing the CRTC Has Done this Month (So Far)

DRM

↺ The Modified Preliminary Injunction Order in SCEA v. Hotz

Intellectual Monopolies

↺ The Death of (Analogue) Patents

Clip of the DayHTC Flyer Android Tablet hands-on at WMC 2011Credit: TinyOgg Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink  Send this to a friend

----------

Techrights

➮ Sharing is caring. Content is available under CC-BY-SA.