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Bluetooth Security and Linux

2013-07-19 05:40:15| Wireless - Topix.net

Imagine a scenario where somebody hacks into your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone and gets hold of all your personal contacts, SMS messages and the pictures you took with the built-in digital camera.

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Expense Submittal System Services By Adisoft For Open Source and Linux IT Services

2013-07-17 07:00:00| Software Vendors Evaluation, Comparison and Selection

Adisoft offers web-based expense reporting software standalone expense reporting software web-based expense audit software feeds from the expense database to your corporate system payment software hosted solutions and a complete range of support and customization agreements. Adisoft's software and services help companies increase control and reduce costs. For more information please see the company's web site http://www.adisoft-inc.com

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Linux 3.11 named Linux for Workgroups in odd homage to its archenemy Windows

2013-07-16 12:49:44| Extremetech

Ever the prankster, Linus Torvalds has paid homage to Windows 3.11 by naming Linux 3.11 "Linux for Workgroups." Tux, Linux's penguin mascot that appears during boot-up, is now holding a Windows flag (pictured above). This might seem a little odd, given Linux's reputation as the Windows antithesis, but Linux for Workgroups is actually one of Linux's saner names. Over the years, the Linux kernel has been lumbered with some amazingly undignified designations, such as Unicycling Gorilla, Erotic Pickled Herring, and Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!

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The Linux Desktop Beauty Pageant, Round Eleventy

2013-07-08 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Well the Fourth of July may have come and gone for another year here in the Land of Stars and Stripes, but for Linux fans, every day is Independence Day. Freedom from the dictates of a few giant software behemoths is what we celebrate each and every time we use our computers, not to mention the world of user choice that comes along with that freedom.

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