Linux Rants

Hackers jailbreak RIM’s PlayBook (Reuters)
App installed on millions of phones secretly records all activity (Digital Trends)
Android is big in Asia: games return to South Korea (Appolicious)
Why America Doesn’t Need More Tech Giants Like Apple
Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video
Maybe Apple haters come around with a new leader
Popular free antivirus apps for Android fail anti-malware tests
Apple’s Worldwide War on Samsung and Android
Android 4.0 Released for x86
Android vs iOS, Which One Should You Choose?
The Personal Computer Is Dead
Will Mac OS X and iOS Merge? – TopBits.com
Sometimes Wine Relaxes Linux, Sometimes It Just Causes Headaches – LinuxInsider.com
Consumers losing patience with Microsoft on tablets – GeekWire
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab sales ban lifted in rare Apple patent defeat
HP’s limboed webOS decision expected ‘within two weeks’
Review: Our Favorite Android Tablet So Far The Lenovo Thinkpad
ITC ruling clears HTC in patent case with former Apple subsidiary
Apple seeks to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany
Research In Motion’s new OS isn’t secure anymore thanks to a jailbreak
Australian court overturns Samsung tablet ban in Apple patent case
Android handsets secretly logging keystrokes, SMS messages?
Android continues its lead over Apple’s iOS, reports Nielsen

• McAfee threats report: Android is in the crosshairs
• Mobile Malware Crisis? Not So Fast
• The Many Names of Linux Kernels
• The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated
• openSUSE 12.1 review – new heights of high tech

• Apple and jail made cool
• Galaxy Nexus Restored To 32gb On Google Page
• Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing
• The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated

• https://plus.google.com/108156234036814596726/posts/24H9KBccrtX
• https://plus.google.com/108156234036814596726/posts/BP8N3QPibTm

• Tablets top bargain hunters’ lists this Black Friday
• Amazon Kindle Fire gets torn open, repairs deemed simple [video]
• OpenSUSE is 12.1 versions old, and the .1 is important
• ASUS Ubuntu Netbooks Launch in 100 Portugal Stores
• Barnes & Noble challenges Microsoft’s infringement claims with 43-pages of prior art
• Google TV perks up some more with Google Music
• Sometimes I read an article about open source that drives me nuts. A recent one stated, without irony, that…
• B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art
• Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet…fight!
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus provides first lick of Ice Cream Sandwich
  (Appolicious)
• Asus: We’re not exiting the Android tablet business
• Review: Kindle Fire a worthwhile bargain
• New Kernel Patch Slashes Linux’s Power Appetite
• Motorola Mobility’s shareholders approve Google merger
• Kindle Fire might be most manly gift this holiday season (survey)
• It’s about not having to reinvent the wheel when you should be working on >light-speed enabling thrusters instead

• Ice Cream Sandwich ported to a Galaxy S II… and the people rejoice
• Qualcomm: Snapdragon-powered Windows 8 PCs will launch next year
• Motorola stockholders approve Google deal
• Tumblr users fight SOPA with 87,834 calls to Congress
• Galaxy Nexus review roundup, LTE release date Monday?
• Will Windows 8 slip until 2013?
• Mac Passes 5% Global PC Market Share as Windows 8 Remains in the Offing – Trefis (subscription)
• Apple, Amazon have won the tablet wars
• BlackBerry 7 sales already seen slowing, iPhone 4S and Android are bad news for RIM
• A snapshot of Android 4.0′s cool new photo sharing features
• Archos debuts Arnova 9 G2 Android tablet, offers Gingerbread on a 9.7-inch IPS display
• Motorola Mobility stockholders happy with Google merger, 9 out of 10 dentists agree
• Kindle Fire might be most manly gift this holiday season (survey)
• How to take your Kindle Fire apart (video)
• Tech Giants Take Out Newspaper Ad Blasting Net Censorship Proposition
• Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a really fast supercomputer
• 12 things that kinda suck about the Kindle Fire
• Motorola Mobility’s shareholders approve Google merger
• Research firm: Amazon tablet costs $201.70 to make
  (AP)

• Amazon releases Kindle Fire source code, devs figure out how to install Android Market
• Kobo Vox unboxing and hands-on (video)
• Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
• Desura for Linux Is Finally Released
• Report: Amazon to follow up tablet with smartphone next year
• Desura Game Distribution Service Releases On Linux
• Android sees nearly 500% increase in malware since July
  (Yahoo! News)
• Google: 200 million Android devices now active worldwide
• Three Hidden Android Easter Eggs
  (ContributorNetwork)
• Android 4.0 arrives as Galaxy Nexus goes on sale
• Want Android 4.0? Wait 2 months, says Cyanogen
• Google: Android Daily Activations Flat
• Accessory Spotlight: Philips Fidelio AS351 for Android
• Amazon Blocking Competitors E-Reader Apps?
• Bye bye Berry: iPhone now top dog in workplace, study finds
• openSUSE 12.1 features explored
• Verizon-branded, LTE-enabled Galaxy Nexus confirmed in official Google video
• Tablet market to thin as failures drive PC vendors back to PCs
• Google confirms Verizon’s LTE Galaxy Nexus dimensions and specifications

• Is the Kindle Fire an iPad Killer?
  (ContributorNetwork)
• OpenSUSE’s new Linux distribution is for the clouds
• Nook Tablet ships ‘big order volume’ but hold back numbers
• Now that I see #CM9 is on the way, I’m starting to get really anxious. January can’t come soon enough! #ICS…
• Why Linux ?! #GNU #Linux #Hacking #Freedom
• Zeta blocker: HTC may have a 2.5GHz, quad-core smartphone
• Nokia may launch flagship Windows Phone soon, Windows 8 tablet in June [updated]
• Android leads the way in mobile malware
• Nokia exec: Windows 8 tablet due in June
• Nokia to release Windows 8 tablets this June, top drawer Lumia in the works?
• openSUSE 12.1 debuts cloud, virtualization, Google Go support
• Ice Cream Sandwich-based CyanogenMod 9 in the works, slated for January release
• Kindle Fire gets rooted with ‘one click,’ paves the way for Amazonian adventures
• Lubuntu 11.10 review – a cure to Ubuntu’s Unity blues?
• Google’s ‘These Go To Eleven’ Android event starts at 5PM ET, get your liveblog here!
• Nokia responds to Windows 8 tablet rumors, says it has no announcements to make
• HTC Zeta image, specs leak: 2.5GHz quad-core CPU, Android 4.0
• HTC Vivid review
• Fedora 16 review – laying the groundwork for an exciting future

OK, this is only marginally Linux related, but I can’t help myself. Dell has recently announced that they will be donating funding, employee time, and cloud technology to help in the fight against Pediatric Cancer.

This is a great cause Dell. You deserve kudos for your efforts. Also, your choice of institutions couldn’t be better. The Translational Genomics Research Institute is an amazing organization.  I say that without a hint of bias, except for the fact that Mrs. Linux Rants there! She is ecstatic about this opportunity, even though Pediatrics isn’t her department. Information that’s uncovered by this research will benefit all cancer research.

Thank you Dell.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/to-fight-pediatric-cancer-dell-donates-cloud-computing-resources/63358

• HP Delays WebOS Decision
• Life with the world’s geekiest watch
• Amazon quietly acquires Yap in clear bid to combat Siri
• Xv6: A Simple Unix-like Teaching Operating System
• PlayBook dropping to $199 in Staples Black Friday deal?
• Sprint says tablets need voice to succeed
• Google and Barnes & Noble get serious about Android patent lawsuits
• HTC Ville rumored as first Sense 4.0 Android smartphone
• AT&T to launch HTC Titan on November 20th for $199.99
• Droid 4 makes a cameo in Verizon systems, preps for its big debut
• Windows Phone 7 jailbreak app shows that Microsoft, not Apple, is the friend of openness
• Kindle Fire cutting into consumer appetite for iPad–survey
• HTC Titan stomps its way over to AT&T on November 20th for $199
• Unity Tomboy Lens Makes Searching, Opening Your Notes Easy in Ubuntu
• Kindle Fire vs. iPad heats up for holiday shoppers (survey)
• Telefonica exec echoes what we already know: Nokia’s new handsets are too spendy