Huawei Sell 75 Million Smartphones in 2014, Revenue Up 30 Percent

  Huawei Consumer Business Group a few moments ago has released its latest financial statements. Division of Huawei's consumer devices are able to record a large increase in revenue in the financial year 2014 and has achieved record revenue of more than 10 billion dollars for the first...

Bug in Wi-Fi Direct Android Implementation Causes Denial of Service

A vulnerability in the way Android handles Wi-Fi Direct connections leads to rebooting the device when searching for peers to connect to, which can be anything from other phones, cameras, gaming devices, computers, or printers. The Wi-Fi Direct technology allows devices capable of wireless connection...

Ubuntu Touch Apps Running in Unity Desktop – Video

Unity 8 for Ubuntu is coming along and Mir is also making good progress. One of the byproducts of all these improvements is that some of the apps that are designed for the Ubuntu Touch are also working on the Ubuntu desktop, with very little help. The idea of converging the Ubuntu platforms into...

Meet KDE Plasma 5.2, the Beautiful Future of the KDE Project

The KDE Community announced that Plasma, the desktop for the KDE project, is now at version 5.2 and the developers have made a number of important changes and improvements. The KDE project now has a different face. The Plasma component is actually the desktop that greets the users and it's...

Ubuntu Touch Spotted Running on Former Windows 8.1 Tablet Lenovo ThinkPad 8

Ubuntu Touch is a new operating system made by Canonical for mobile devices like phones and tablets. The only supported platforms are Nexus 4 and Nexus 7, but it looks like developers now have an easier time to make it work on other platforms, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad 8 with Intel processor. The...

Exiv2 Vulnerability Closed in Ubuntu 14.10

Canonical has published details in a security notice about an Exiv2 vulnerability in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) that has been found and corrected. This is not a major issue, but users should upgrade nonetheless. A number of problems were corrected in the past week or so and this latest Exiv2...