I find this hard to believe! Mozilla has pulled the plug on its low-end $25 Firefox OS Linux-based smartphone on the ground that the phone had few takers. So is everyone in the world, including dirt-poor Africans and Asians, hankering only for a $800 fancy iPhone or the latest Samsung Read More
All good things of life must end sooner rather than later given human imperfection. Ditto with Linux. Long considered one of the most secure operating systems thanks to its open source nature, Linux’s growing popularity is drawing the attention of hackers around the world. In what must be extremely distressing Read More
Let’s admit the truth, shall we. Even the best of us command line gurus (and only few of us are really gurus) prefer the simplicity and ease of a GUI frontend to our favorite command line tools. Zenmap is a neat GUI tool for the nmap command line scanning utility Read More
Dmitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) is a basic scanning tool found in the Kali Linux penetration testing distribution. Written in C, Dmitry is the creation of James Greig. You can access the tool by typing dmitry on the command line. When you run the base tool on a host (a Read More
The tablet market is basically imploding. In free fall. The number crunchers at ABI Research have found that shipments of OEM branded tablets experienced a year-over-year decline of 13% in the first quarter of 2015. Here’s what ABI’s Research Analyst Stephanie Van Vactor had to say on the current challenging Read More
I don’t want to text from my phone. I don’t want to hear music on my phone. I don’t want my phone to tell me it’s sunny in Beijing, cloudy in Bangalore or snowing in Fairbanks. I don’t want to watch a Korean movie from Netflix on my phone. I Read More