Ubuntu for Phones makes major mobile push

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Canonical's Ubuntu OS is popular for being easy to install and use and for being quite malleable and capable of running efficiently on older PCs. Back in 2011, we featured a story about Ubuntu making inroads to mobile and late last year it was announced that multi-core smartphones could easily run the mobile version of the OS. Ubuntu just announced Ubuntu for Phones which will be showcased at CES in Las Vegas next week.

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CrashPlan+ offers Affordable Cloud Backups

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Backups are an essential part of computing life. Hard drives die, computers fail, accidents happen. Not everyone is keen on regular backups since they require external drives or other tedious workarounds. Cloud backup services, however, make sense because they work in the background and cost less than backing up to physical drives. CrashPlan for PC, Macs and Linux offers various backup options starting at $1.50 a month.

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McAfee Leads in enterprise endpoint protection and threat detection

McAfee  announced several market validations of its enterprise endpoint security technology, with independent proof of superior threat detection and endpoint performance, powered by a unique unified threat intelligence system and an integrated management platform.

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India develops world's cheapest $35 Linux laptop

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal unveils the low cost computing-cum-access device in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: V. Sudershan -The Hindu

It's a laptop, it runs Linux, it has iPad-like touchscreen features and it costs $35. This is the world's cheapest laptop, a LInux powered device that is being developed in India and is poised to start an affordable computing revolution of its own.

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