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One of the most expected gadgets has finally arrived. After the launch of SIII last year, people are now waiting for the ultimate  Android  smart Phone that could beat SIII. It could only be Samsung Galaxy SIV. Samsung announced its Galaxy SIV at Radio City Music Hall in New York on March 16, 2013. Samsung also announced that the smartphone will be available in India by April 26 th  of this year. The Galaxy SIV is very popular as it is the most expected smartphone till date. Samsung Galaxy SIV Basic Features Powered by  Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It is the first smartphone from Samsung to have the 4.2 Jelly Bean version of the Android Operating System. It is also said that it will be upgradable to Android Key Lime Pie which is set to release by Google on May 15. Display  – The display is 5.0″ Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16Million colors. It also has a superb resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels with about 441 ppi pixel ...

Does the Ubuntu Community need a Foundation? There has been a lot of talk lately about people leaving the  Ubuntu Community and people disappointed with the direction  Canonical  is taking with the  Ubuntu  Community. Mainly how announcements are being handed down with little or no comments from community contributors. The thing that I wonder is why have we as a Community not asked the most simple question which is why has the Ubuntu Foundation not been made a reality? Think how many Open Source projects of Ubuntu's size that have been able to keep their values intact and co-exist with a corporate financial backer running the show? I can't think of any off the top of my head... MySQL? OpenOffice? Exactly. You know Matt Mullenweg had this crazy notion when he created Automattic and Wordpress that he envisioned a structure where for-profit, non-profit, and not-just-for-profit could coexist and balance each other out which seems t...

Limited Edition Of Blue Raspberry Pis Now Available The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced  the launch of a blue, one year anniversary edition of the low-cost, credit-card-sized single-board computer. The Foundation is celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of Raspberry Pi with the unveiling of a special limited edition of the Linux-based pocket computer. A blog post from the Foundation's Liz Upton  said : To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there's something really handsome about that blue. They come with a certificate of authenticity signed by Eben and a matching blue case from One Nine Design in Wales; and blue, as drinkers of Slush Puppy should be aware, is the canonical colour of raspberry flavouring. (Do not eat this Pi.) But here is a catch. The Foundation is not selling these P...

IBM Unveils New Open Software: SmartCloud Orchestrator IBM has disclosed plans to make all of its cloud services and software based on an open cloud architecture. “This move will ensure that innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of insecure and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities associated with interconnected data, such as mobile computing and business analytics,” the company said. As the first step, the company today unveiled a new private cloud offering based on the open sourced OpenStack software that speeds and simplifies managing an enterprise-grade cloud. Robert LeBlanc, IBM senior vice president of software, said: Just as standards and open source revolutionized the Web and Linux, they will also have a tremendous impact on cloud computing. IBM has been at the forefro...

LibreOffice 4.0.1 Comes With Updated Impress Remote, Delivers Android Remote For All The Document Foundation  (TDF) has released  LibreOffice  4.0.1, for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This is the first maintenance and bug fix release for  LibreOffice  4.0, which was launched in early February. The updated version fixes over a hundred bugs and also makes the LibreOffice Impress Remote available for all platforms - Linux, MacOS and Windows - from  Google Play . The LibreOffice Impress Remote is an app to interact with your slideshow presentation from your  Android  device - including slide previews, speaker notes, and more. Earlier, it only worked with selected Linux versions of LibreOffice. Instructions how to use the remote can be found in  The Document Foundation 's  wiki . The Foundation said: The new release is a step forward in the process of improving the overall quality and stability of LibreOffice 4...

Samsung Galaxy S3 bug allows full phone access You might have heard about a vulnerability in several builds of iOS 6 that lets you bypass the lockscreen without entering a passcode. A bug was also recently found on  Samsung ’s Galaxy Note2 that allows you to launch anything immediately behind the lock screen. And now, it’s the Galaxy S3 which contains the same security flaw. So it won’t be wrong to state that the issue lies within  Samsung ’s own software overlay. According to an S3 owner, the bug allows full access to the device. Tech2  reports : Security newsletter Full Disclosure's Sean McMillian has posted a variation of the method used to bypass the Note 2's lockscreen to defeat the Galaxy S3's security system. Instead of launching an application on the home screen, which was possible through the earlier bug, McMillian detailed how an attacker could access everything on the phone by simply locking the screen and then unlocking it a...

Google gets VP8 'protection' from MPEG LA, signs licence deal Google has agreed to pay a licence fee to MPEG LA , LLC for techniques which they say may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders. With this licence agreement Google also gains the right to sublicense those techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity. The advocates of open standard and free software are saddened by this move.  Jan Wildeboer, a Red Hat evangelist says , "Le Sigh. Google pays for "protection"  by MPEG-LA. Including downstream license to make sure the openness can be kept. While this is a good move, I am saddened that we need to do such stuff nowadays." Another relieving outcome of this deal is that MPEG LA has also agreed to discontinue its effort to form a VP8 patent pool which could have put the technology that Google ...

Clement Lefebvre: Mir has nothing to do with Linux Mint Linux Mint is one of the most important open source projects which cater to the needs of users by proving what users want. Linux Mint has been around for a while but it rose in popularity when Unity happened and Canonical  started to drift away from the core Linux and open source communities and began doing their own things secretly, behind the closed doors. What  Canonical  is doing is fine for protecting a company's interests but  many see it as unhealthy for open source . Since Linux Mint is based on  Ubuntu  many users are concerned about the future of this distribution. So I reached out to Clement Lefebvre of Linux Mint to get his views on some of the pressing issues. Q. What's more important for Linux Mint - the base OS or the user environment (Gnome/ KDE ) that it offers to suit user's needs - since  Ubuntu  is moving in a direction which is totally d...

Here come Stitcher browser plug-ins for Firefox and Chrome Stitcher has come up with new plug-ins for Firefox and Chrome browsers. You can now listen to the streaming service any time on any browser thanks to the new browser plug-ins customized for Chrome and Firefox. These plug-ins also enable users to stream their favorite programs along with over 15,000 shows using easy toolbar access providing full playback control, the company said. Stitcher said in a  blog post : The fully featured web app will sync with the mobile app and pulls in all your custom stations, so you can seamlessly pick up where you left off listening wherever you are. The web experience includes Smart Discovery enabling users to discover new shows based on their listening activity. The Smart Station draws from more than 15,000 shows and fine-tunes personalized recommendations. The browser plug-ins also support on-demand listening, customized stations and Facebook sharing. You ...

VNC Viewer launched for Google Chrome RealVNC has come up with VNC Viewer for Google Chrome, which lets users connect to a remote computer and display the desktop within a Google Chrome Web browser window. The software is aimed at ensuring users can simply access their computers wherever they are in the world, according to the company. VNC Viewer for Google Chrome contains a range of features including a virtual keyboard that enables users to perform operations such as Ctrl-Alt-Delete, as well as sending other controls that may not be available on the machine running the browser, making it simpler for cross-platform connections. It also automatically optimises colour quality and responsiveness giving users the best performance according to their network speed. The software connects to any Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or UNIX computer running a VNC-compatible server. The recommended VNC with an Enterprise license provides robust and responsive connections, enha...

Google Doodle - Douglas Adams 61 years have passed since the birth of Douglas Adams , one of the most famous science-fiction writers, and Google is celebrating it with their Google Doodle. The doodle shows the interior of a spacecraft in which there are a number of elements related to its works, including a tablet with various humoristical animations that present similar situations to the ones created by Douglas Adams in  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" . His most famous piece of work, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", was at base a radiophonic show first aired in 1978 on BBC Radio 4, ultimately being adapted in other formats like books, TV shows, games, comic books and movies, becoming an international phenomena. His idea was to combine the humour with the science-fiction, but his idea was not what the sponsors wanted, as he once stated: "My favourite project was to write something that combines comedy w...

Gnome gets official status within the Ubuntu family Amid all this controvery, there is some good news for Gnome users.  Ubuntu GNOME, initiated by none other than Jeremy Bicha, has earned the status of official Ubuntu flavour . The  Ubuntu GNOME team recently applied to the Ubuntu Tech Board to be recognized as the official and it was approved in a meeting . One advantage that the team will get by becoming the official flavor is access to the infrastructure provided by Canonocal to such flavours. This is good news for GNOME users as till now there was no easy way to get daily images as things develop. Tim Lunn writes on the mailing list, "We will not be participating in this week's Beta 1 Release but we are planning to release images for the Final Beta at the end of the month. Daily image builds are currently being set up and we except that they will be available within a few weeks." He further wrote that, " Ubuntu  GNOME 13.0...

Red Hat takes over OpenJDK 6 leadership from Oracle Java is one of the most important technologies (and also one of the reason's  Oracle  bought Sun) yet it has a complex relationship with  Oracle . It's also turning out to be one of the most insecure technologies, considering the flood of java vulnerabilities found and exploited recently. Red Hat has played an instrumental role in Java for Linux users by starting IcedTea project  whose "initial goal was to make the Java OpenJDK usable without requiring any other software that is not free software and hence make it possible to add OpenJDK to  Fedora  and other Linux distributions that insist on free software." Now  Red Hat is again playing an important role by taking over the maintenance of OpenJDK 6 from Oracle  which decided to abandon support for it as it focuses on OpenJDK 7 and future editions. The reason  Red Hat  has stepped in is that there ar...

Compiz contributor: Ubuntu for me is now a waste of time Canonical  is receiving quite a flack from the free software community as they are transforming from community based distro to a company product. Most of the development now happens in-house, in secret behind the closed doors without any inputs from the community that made  Ubuntu  the success it is today.  After upsetting the veteran Wayland, X, KDE developers , the company has now lost it's ex-employee and Compiz contributor Sam Spilsbury. Sam Spilsbury worked as a Canonical employee between 2010 to 2012  as a software engineer mainly working on Compiz. Spilsbury recently disclosed through a comment on a blog that  Canonical  has stopped taking community patches for Compiz. Though it makes sense as Mir may not be using Compiz, the way Canonical handled the entire situation is what makes them look bad. Spilsbury said: What's really disappointed me is the level of ...

App Fever: LMT Launcher It’s Friday App Fever! And this is our first app to review, so let’s get started! Our first app that gets our attention is the LMT Launcher. LMT, as explained by its developer is: “...a tool for  Android  (tested already on multiple devices - see below) that launches a command when perform single touch or multitouch gestures on the screen (in any app/screen/etc.). You can connect basic and advanced commands to any gesture LMT supports. In addition to the gestures you can activate a system-wide PieControl for navigation like the feature in the ICS stock browser (touch the side of the screen to activate it).” So in Layman’s terms, LMT enables you to basically have fully customizable navbar buttons that appear when you slide your finger across a portion of the screen, launching/doing android specific tasks in an instant. You can either activate an action with a finger gesture or you can use the PIE feature, shown in th...