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| 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. |
| Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd |
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| 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. |
| Google Hires Bouncer to Give Android Malware the Heave-Ho |
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| 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. |
| WebOS Swings Along the Open Road |
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| 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. |
| SMPlayer: A Flexible, Feature-Filled Media Player With a Frustrating Flaw |
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| 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 -- containing malware known as "Counterclank,"according to the AV company. |
| New Android Scare: Just How Malignant Is That Malware? |
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| 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 break now that it's the end of the month? No, we don't, thanks to the arrival of Ubuntu's "HUD." |
| Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back? |
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| 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 version of Vignette adds full resolution to the mix. |
| Vignette Lets Android Photogs Get Their Art On |
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| 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 picked apart on these pages time, time and time again. Well guess what? It's still a problem. |
| FOSS' Factious Gender Divide |
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