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This article selects high quality Android software that helps investors keep up to date with the latest stock market news, analyse the markets, and identify stock worth purchasing. We also feature the finest personal finance software available for Android devices, as well as apps that help consumers be more savvy when spending money. Being able to keep on top of your personal finances on your Android smartphone or tablet is a real advantage. All of the software featured in this article is available to download without charge, although some of the developers have also released a paid app which offer more functionality and/or the removal of advertising banners.

7 beautiful themes for CyannogenMod 7 custom Android ROM.

Linux Mint's meteoric rise to the top of the distro charts can be attributed to its perfect mix of usability and functionality. But if you think it's just another Ubuntu-skinned distro, you're very wrong. Unlike most popular Linux distros, Mint is the brainchild of just one man - Clement Lefebvre - yet it has managed to invigorate the community. It's no surprise, then, that it looks to its legions of users for advice.

Ford and open source software/hardware provider Bug Labs say they'll collaborate to let developers create modules for the automaker's & Sync& in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system. The jointly created & OpenXC& research platform will utilize hardware add-ons called & BugBases& and & BugModules,& as well as the cloud-based & BugSwarm& service, according to the companies.

The Business Software Alliance, that concerned body in the US which bangs the drum for victims of crime — Microsoft, Adobe et al — has produced another fine survey setting out the sheer scale of global anarchy in the software industry.

The GNOME project has published version 3.1.91, the second beta version of GNOME 3.2. In just under two weeks, GNOME release candidate 3.1.92 is to follow. According to the roadmap, GNOME 3.2 is to be published on 28 September, but the developers are currently a few days behind.

"Cause for concern? Yes, but there's no reason to believe that kernel sources were compromised; such a change would be easily detected with diff," said Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. "I'd sure like someone to show me a 100 percent secure, internet-connected computer... ."

The Echostar IP Set Top Box HDX-200 seen at the IBC 2011 Amsterdam is an Android 2.3 operated device & runs Linux kernel 2.6.34.

Developers this distribution did not want to make the name of their product difficult to remember or something unusual. They called it... Simply Linux.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database that Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

The featured stories for TLWIR edition 16 are as follows:

Hydrogen Brings Beats to GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and Windows Brian’s Bedroom: Recording Music With a Linux Home Studio Red Hat’s Big Moving Day

Mindfire Solutions releases the DotNetNuke MfsSliding Module on 1st Sept, 2011. The MfsSliding DotNetNuke Module is developed in-house by Mindfire's DNN team.

You can argue about which specific date is Linux's official birthday. Heck, even Linus Torvalds thinks there are four different dates in 1991 that might deserve the honor of being the operating system's birthday. Be that as it may, Linux is twenty years so let's take a walk though time with Linux at some of its high, and low, points.

The steps outlined in this post should help Galaxy Tab 10.1 users get Netflix streaming up and running without having to root their tablets.

The 2011 X.Org Developers' Conference is set to begin tomorrow morning in Chicago, Illinois, United States. This three-day event will focus on what's coming down the pipe for the X.Org Server, Mesa, the Linux kernel DRM, and related areas of open-source graphics and input...

LXer Feature: 11-Sept-2011

Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!

There is no secret that Mandriva as a company was on a brink of bankruptcy not so long ago. It was good time for some external investors to take over the company. And there were such investors. Investment fund NGI bought a stake in Mandriva. Since then, things have changed in the company.

There was the widely-reported Kernel.org security breach at the end of August, which resulted in the servers used for hosting the Linux kernel Git repository and other code to be forced off-line. Kernel.org has still not been restored, and now there's a related security breach at the Linux Foundation. Linux.com, the Linux Foundation itself, and related infrastructure are now "down for maintenance" this weekend...

Welcome to the 164th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Back in 2009 the Linux mascot, Tux, was temporarily replaced by Tuz. Tuz was a Tasmanian Devil character and the use of the logo was used to promote this endangered animal that's nearly extinct in Australia. Tuz replaced Tux in the Linux 2.6.29 kernel, but with Linux 2.6.30 there was the return of Tux. Now with the Linux 3.1 kernel that's a proposal (RFC) for a new Linux kernel logo...