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Amazon has begun accepting web apps and mobile-optimized websites for sale in its Amazon Appstore for Kindle and Android devices, allowing developers to market their HTML-based wares to mobile users in over 200 countries.

Canonical announced today that Bloomberg LP is the first corporate backer of the crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge project. The financial institution is pledging to buy 100 Ubuntu Edge smart-phones as part of an enterprise bundle at a cost of $80,000 USD.

For those concerned more about code licenses and the free nature of software over the quality, richness, and features of a Linux distribution, gNewSense 3.0 is now available. The gNewSense 3.0 release now supports three architectures and has switched from an Ubuntu base to now using Debain Linux.

Free software licenses can be divided into two broad categories: copyleft licenses (like the GPL), which require derivatives of the software to be licensed under the same terms; and permissive licenses (like the MIT/X11 license), which allow the software to be reused in any project, even closed-source projects.

Another round of bug-fixes for the Radeon Dynamic Power Management code has been submitted for the Linux 3.11 kernel. Some of the individual changes this round include properly handling power management on GPU resets, adjusting thermal protection requirements for DPM, fixing spread spectrum setup, adjusting the power state properly for unified video decoding on Radeon HD 7000 (Souther Islands GPUs), and other UVD/DPM-related changes.

Wifislax is a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed for wireless hacking and forensics. Wifislack 4.6, the latest stable edition, was released on July 31 (2013). This is a Spanish distribution that’s made available for download as an installable 32-bit ISO image.

Jonathan Schwartz once wrote (in a blog that has now been deleted) about how they were in talks with an organization (he did not reveal the name, but no prizes for guessing) who contended they have a solid database and their developers have no need to use an open source database.

Intel subsidiary Wind River announced a collaboration with Chinese embedded software company PATEO on an Android-based automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system. PATEO is using Wind River Connectivity Solution Accelerator for Android to enable an Android IVI system to play music and videos from iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Chrome as your preferred browser, and if you happen to have any important passwords saved within the browser itself, you might just want to reconsider how wise that is.

Today in Open Source: The blink tag is no more in Firefox. Plus: SparkyLinux 3.0 GameOver, and Android malware rates surge!

In a recent career shift, I went from an employer who provided me an iPhone to one who provides me with an Android (Galaxy S4 to be specific). Although I was happy to move to a Linux-based handset, I was concerned about replacing the "Find My iPhone" capability that Apple provides. Not only does my family use it to keep track of each other, but we also relied on it when a phone was misplaced. Does the Google Play store offer anything comparable? Um, yes.

Advantech announced a tiny module based on the COM Express Mini form-factor and built around an Intel 1.86GHz dual-core Atom N2800 processor. The business-card sized SOM-7565 A2 supports up to 4GB of RAM and 8GB of flash, offers a wide range of I/O, expands with three PCIe lanes, consumes 8 to 9.5 Watts, and supports and supports -40 to 85°C operation with its optional heatsink.

wakened from his slumber, Beatbuddy journeys through lush hand-painted environments on a quest to save his companions and his own immortality. Beatbuddy interacts with the living breathing environment that pulses to the beat of an original soundtrack, aiding him as he unlocks new paths and solves puzzles. I watched the trailer and wow, this game has an awesome selection of music may have to buy it just for that!

FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game.

There's a new Windows-powered botnet, Fort Disco, slowly building up strength and cracking into PHP-based blog and content management system Web sites.

A new set of Linux GPU driver patches have emerged for allowing HDMI 4K support...and allow for parsing a dark corner of the EDID information for being able to expose the 4K x 2K resolution modes to user-space.

Many enterprises possess an unrealistic confidence surrounding the security of their networks, with more than 65 percent of IT/security professionals contacted for a survey by network visibility and security intelligence specialist Landcope not thinking or being unsure that they had experienced any security incidents within the last 12 to18 months.

Enter Final Term, a new terminal emulator being developed by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann, a mathematician and Linux Software Engineer from Heidelberg, Germany. What makes Final Term so great, even at this stage in its development is that it is like a super cool and decked-out IDE (ok, that’s hype, but…), with intelli-sense support.

Google's maintainer of the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP), has quit the project out of being frustrated with the lack of open-source ARM GPU drivers. In particular, Google's flagship devices not working with the Android open-source project over no vendor-backed open-source graphics drivers...

The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is out this week with the Flex 4.10.0 update, which I consider to be a major new release of the Flex project. The Flex Framework for rich Internet application development continues its evolution beyond Adobe's confines as adoption and interest grows.