Sunday, August 05, 2012:
Last week was a bag of mixed offerings for the open source world in India. While there were a few exciting launches like Micromax's FunBook Pro, there was a sad news, which affected the Indian open source community. We lost Kenneth Gonsalves, a major contributor and a significant personality in the Indian open source community. EFYTimes.com and LINUX For You pay their tribute to Kenneth.
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1. "Almost Every Android Device Is Malware Infected" : If you are an Android device user, you may in deep trouble, warns British Telecom. BT has come up with some eyebrow-raising statements about Android operating system. Android malware is an issue for sure, but a security expert from BT has said that it is an epidemic, which is affecting everyone. Speaking at the NetEvents Americas conference, Jill Knesek, head of the global security practice at BT, said, “The company has analysed over 1,000 Android applications and the findings were rather shocking. We found that around one-third of the apps were compromised with some form of active or dormant malware. The team has found that almost every device is compromised with some kind of malware. However, it is unclear that whether the code is active or what it is doing." Read More>>>
2. Red Hat, Canonical 'Traitors' To Open Source: OpenBSD Founder : In an interview with ITWire, Theo de Raadt, the founder of the OpenBSD project and a prominent figure in the Open Source world called Linux giants, Red Hat and Canonical as ‘traitors’ for working with Microsoft's secure boot system. "I fully understand that Red Hat and Canonical won't be doing the right thing, they are traitors to the cause, mostly in it for the money and power. They want to be the new Microsoft," de Raadt told ITWire. "I sense that disaster is coming, and hope that someone has the moral strength to do the right thing," de Raadt told ITWire. Similarly, Richard Stallman also referred to UEFI as a "disaster" in a recent interview with Bytes Media, saying that the practice amounts to "abuse of the users. I think it ought to be illegal." Read More>>>
3. World's Cheapest Jelly Bean Tablet, Smart Tab 1 : Karbonn Mobiles is known for introducing low-cost smartphones in the market. However, it has been in new for an entirely different reason of late- the company plans to launch an Android Jelly Bean tablet. Well, the news is that the company has finally taken the plunge and launched the much-awaited Jelly Bean tablet. And this will be the world’s cheapest Jelly Bean tablet- Smart Tab 1. Read More>>>
4. India Will House Our Second Largest Facility In The World: Red Hat : If you thought India was lagging behind other countries in adopting open source technology, think again! When Red Hat made its expansion plans, it considered India as the idle destination to find ‘appropriate’ talent. Besides, Evans Data’s Global Developer Population and Demographic Survey conducted in 2011 reveals that India is among the rising technology powerhouses and by 2015, this country will surpass the United States with more than 3.5 million professional software developers. Red Hat recently announced the expansion and launch of two ‘Engineering Centres of Excellence’ in Bengaluru and Pune. The Pune centre, spread over 4645 sq m (50,000 sq ft), is Red Hat’s second largest engineering facility in the world, the largest being in North America. Read More>>>
5. BSNL Penta T-Pad IS701C: A Worthy Cheap Tablet! : Here comes a new name in the low-cost tablets. Well, it is not really new in the market but it has not been spoken about much for sure. Especially, with the low end tablet market flooding with so many options. If you are looking forward to a decent budget tablet at a pocket friendly price of Rs 5,000, then you might consider the BSNL Penta T-Pad IS701C. Pantel Technologies Private Limited (PTPL) along with state run telecommunication company, BSNL has launched the T-Pad IS701C. This tablet exclusively targets consumers of rural regions of the country. Keeping in mind the price, let's peep into the features of the tablet and evaluate. Read More>>>
6. MIT Techies Create An Open Source DIY Mobile Phone : Now you don't need to go to the Samsung's and LG's of the world for your next phone. MIT techies have created a unique Do-It-Yourself mobile phone. You can also create it as the source code, circuit design files and case design files have been made available by the designing team. David A Mellis, a member of MIT's High-Low Tech group, is the creator of this unique DIY mobile phone. Mellis has done the job out of easily obtained electronic parts and plywood. The phone neither sports a giant touchscreen nor Internet connectivity like the modern day mobile phones but this is good enough operations phone. This self-made phone is perfectly operational but has low-impact and is free from the constraints of mass production. Read More>>>
7. Sony Xperia Mint With Android ICS To Have 13 MP Camera : Sony will mount a 13 megapixel rear camera in its upcoming Xperia LT30p Mint smartphone, which was showcased at the IFA Berlin event. The features of the upcoming phone has been published in the Mobile Review report. According to the report, Xperia LT30p Mint comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, 10.9-cm (4.3 inch) HD screen, dual core 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon S4 processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB inbuilt storage. Read More>>>
8. Micromax Funbook Pro Up For Sale @Rs 9,999 : We earlier reported about the 23.6-cm (10.1-inch) version of the Micromax Funbook Pro tablet but then the pricing details were not available. Well, the cat is finally out of the box and the tablet is now listed on an online retail website, Snapdeal.com at a price of Rs 9,999. The tablet runs Google’s latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich, making it the second Android tablet from the maker- the first was the Micromax Funbook tablet. Read More>>>
9. Xperia Phones Launched In 2011 Will Not Get Jelly Bean! : If you have bought a Sony Xperia phone launched in 2011, this one is for you. Sony has said that the devices launched last year, including Xperia Arc S and Mini Pro will not get Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade. Revealing the news through its Facebook page, the company has said that its Xperia Arc S and Mini Pro will not get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade. This has also raised doubts whether the other phones launched in the same year will get any upgrade or not. Read More>>>
10. Richard Stallman Gives A Thumb Down To Steam : Linux enthusiasts all over the world are happy about the games company, Steam warming up to Linux, but it has not impressed the GNU founder much. Richard Stallman has expressed his concerns on his blog. He said Stallman said that while the availability of popular non free programs on GNU/Linux can boost adoption of the system, it may not bring enough freedom. He writes: “However, our goal goes beyond making this system a “success”; its purpose is to bring freedom to the users. Thus, the question is how this development affects users' freedom.” Read More>>>
Diksha P Gupta, EFYTIMES News Network
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