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Games are always popular among all age group. With each passing day, new technology is being developed and with new technology, new games and new platforms are also being developed. One such platform is the Android operating system which has been developed by Google to work for smartphones. A large number of developers are involved with the development of applications based on this platform. Even many new Android games are also being developed day by day. These Android games and apps are either free or paid and can be downloaded or bought from Google’s online app store Android Market. Even there are many third party online stores where the Android games and apps can be obtained.

In this article I will discuss Last.fm, a scrobbling service, and present my “tools of the trade” for utilizing it for scrobbling and broadcasting what I’m playing.

Of course, if I’m going to get busy and miss deadline, it’ll happen on a busy week in FOSS news. The fates work that way, I’m convinced. Indeed, after a couple of ho-hum weeks, the news flew fast and furious this week. Hold on, it’ll be a hell of a ride!

More Apps Downloaded to Android than to iPhone

It was reported on Tuesday that ABI Research says Android now leads the pack in the number of apps downloaded. According to their figures, 44% of all mobile apps downloaded are headed for Android devices, with 31% going to the iOS platform. These figures are miles away from what the research firm predicted back in 2009 as the mobile wars were just getting heated up:

We all love word games. Not only do they help us kill boredom, they also serve as good vocabulary building tools. From the simple hangman to the grid-based Scrabble, people have been playing word games since Victorian times. Now, even though we are in the age of smart phones and tablets, their popularity hasn’t waned thanks to some great apps that let us have the same experience on the go. So, if you’re dying to try out some of the best word games on your phone, read on as we list the top 5 word games for Android.

In September the 2011 Linux Graphics Survey came to an end, but due to Oktoberfest, AMD Bulldozer Linux testing, OpenBenchmarking.org developments, and other matters, I didn't have time to look at the survey results until this weekend when getting ready for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Here's the 2011 results looking at what Linux desktop end-users are running when it comes to graphics cards and drivers as well as their key concerns.

Here's a look at some of the most popular Linux news stories from this year to date...

Mega Games Pack (MGP) is a standalone client for Ubuntu that allows you to download and play hundreds of free Linux games. MGP is currently in beta testing mode. Some of the planned features include a themeable interface and support for global hotkeys.

Cloud computing is often positioned as a solution to scalability problems. In fact, it seems like almost every day I read a blog post about a company moving infrastructure to the cloud. At Mixpanel, we did the opposite. I’m writing this post to explain why and maybe even encourage some other startups to consider the alternative.

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works

The lengths we go to, to guard against mistakes...

Understanding options that can be used with the Linux command cat. This command can be used to view, create, or join multiple text files together.

While Skype has now expanded their Linux API support to allow other applications to take advantage of Skype video calls and other features, a few months ago the Skype protocol began to be reverse-engineered by an independent researcher. Skype took action several times against this work.

I take back anything bad I said about Kubuntu. I mean, it was true then, but definitely not now. Kubuntu is certainly among the best KDE distributions I've seen thus far.

Matthias Clasen announced last night, October 27th, the immediate availability for testing of the first development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings various fixes.

Can Linux be infected by MalWare and is it a big concern? The answer to that question is both Yes and No: Yes, Linux can be Infected and No, it isn’t a big nightmare – yet. Unless you downloaded the Unreal IRCd (Unreal IRC daemon) and installed it between November 2009 and June 2010 on your Linux server. There was a Trojan downloader in it. A Linux Trojan. See the Softpedia Article

Only Human Studios have launched a more recent trailer depicting their recently released Linux game Helena the 3rd. Helena The 3rd is an action platformer where you pilot a tank named Helena capable of jumping. Exploring various styled underground caverns and battling hostile robotic enemies. You'll need to leave your vehicle on occasion to explore rooms you can only get to by foot. Gameplay switches from 3rd person to FPS as you search for the powerful upgrades you'll need to progress to new areas.

This Wednesday, October 26th, Canonical and Dell proudly announced their brand-new retail program designed to sell Dell laptops and desktops pre-loaded with Ubuntu.

Virtualization seems to be everyone’s answer to every problem. For BYOD, it might just be the answer to stressed budgets and user happiness.

This week we look at a debate on the merits of cloud computing, WebGL and the future of the web, and amazingly bad password practices

Want to watch a Blu-ray on your PC? That’ll be £50 please. Simon, for one, is fed up of this game. Join him as he looks at one of the many wheezes the proprietary software and hardware industry are still trying to pull…