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Linux running PCs are vulnerable to Windows oriented autorun style attacks as it was proved by a security researcher. Jon Larimer, of IBM's X-Force security division, conducted a research and found that autorun is not absolutely extraneous to Linux architecture. Larimer developed a demo to show how it might be possible to insert a USB stick with modified code into a Ubuntu PC to get rid of a screensaver without entering a password – and display the user's desktop.

Paul Buchheit, former Google employee, FriendFeed founder and Facebook-er turned investor, posted a new tweet today that says:

Opera unveiled the preview its next browser release, 10.6 - featuring support for geolocation and royalty-free WebM video and HTML5 offline web apps.

The app is supposed to be the next major milestone for Linux and BSD users, since Opera is skipping an official 10.5 release for those platforms. As the company assures the new version of the JavaScript engine is up to 75% per cent faster

Adobe warns users of Windows, Mac or Linux systems to be cautiousness as hackers are exploiting critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player.

Adobe esteems Adobe Reader and Acrobat version 8.x are not vulnerable, but users of the newer version 9.0 of the software are at risk. The company has published a workaround involving the deletion of a library file connected with processing Flash content in PDF files pending the development of a more comprehensive fix.

With the efforts of Google and other tech giants Linux platform seems to be gaining momentum with its further move from servers to user devices like tablets, smartphones and TV-sets, notes the piece in the Computerworld magazine.

At Computex computer show in Taipei, Taiwan, many vendors exhibited multiple Apple iPad-like tablets running Android Linux or other embedded Linuxes such as the latest MeeGo embedded Linux.

At last the long expected MeeGo operating system has shown its first code. Intel and Nokia have released the code of their conjointly developed platform that builds on their Moblin and Maemo Linux mobile projects. The initiative is a challenge of the two companies to Google and its open source platform Android.

Motorola has acquired Azingo, maker of a Linux operating system for smartphones that gives you touch-based screen input, features a WebKit-based browser, works with Adobe Systems' Flash, and comes with an SDK. Azingo is a privately held firm based in India, with offices in Silicon Valley and South Korea.

Thus, with the acquisition the company will have full team of several hundred engineers who have worked at Azingo.

The sources show that the acquisition closed in April this year.

Sony is being sued by a PlayStation 3 user who submitted a filing with US District Court in the Northern California District. The class-action suit charges Sony with downgrading millions of devices by removing their ability to run Linux.

Last month the company took a controversial measure a few months after the prolific hacker, George Hotz, aka geohot, devised a way to effectively jailbreak the console with the help of that Linux feature and a soldering gun.

Nokia and Intel announced that developers now have access to MeeGo operating system's source code. The timetable of the official release of the OS has not been established yet. Still the key elements of the system are available to allow developers to begin working with--and developing for--the new platform.

Imad Sousou, director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center, said on the MeeGo community blog that available elements were placed in online repositories. At the moment MeeGo comprises a Linux kernel and OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer.

Sony announced that starting April 1st users of non slim PS3 will no longer have the "install other OS" option, marking thus the end of the era when gamers could install Linux OS on their consoles.

In a move to press their rivals Google and Apple who have bit a big hunk of the mobile phone market Nokia and Intel are merging their top-end smartphone software. Nokia will merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel's Moblin, also a version of Linux.

Intel expects the deal will boost its chances to push its chips into the cellphones of the Finnish company, which controls about 40% of the global market. The new software platform, called Meego, will be hosted by Linux foundation, the companies said.
 

 Fiserv, announced Thursday it has finished development of a new global account processing solution Acumen, targeting to transform the way large credit unions do business.

Progress doesn’t stop even for a moment. Recently we have told about the netbooks that run on AA batteries. Today we are very excited to tell you about the recent creature of iUnika that is powered by solar energy. 

iUnika GYY is not a big one. It weights just 700gm with a WVGA 8-inch display with an 800 x 480 resolution. The newest model runs Linux OS on a 400MHz MIPS processor.