Transmageddon, a popular open-source video transcoder for Linux that’s built atop GStreamer, has seen its first major update in more than one year…

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TouchPal is a mobile app that helps you “keep in touch with your contacts,” namely by adding social aspects to your current contact list. Although much of TouchPal’s functionality has been replicated in other systems. However, TouchPal has improved things by merging nearly all of them into one app.

TouchPal adds “availability” flags to your contact list and maintains contact information right inside the app. It also allows you to update your information and the change is propagated out to your friends’ phones. You can also create “status” messages and mark busy people to call them back automatically.

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A few days back when testing the Linux 3.1 kernel with Intel’s Sandy Bridge hardware and then the Intel RC6 power-savings support, I also ran some updated benchmarks of SNA, the new Intel acceleration architecture available from their graphics driver.

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Microsoft Windows AFD Driver CVE-2011-2005 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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While Adobe previously said it would support Google’s WebM video format within their Flash Player software, it doesn’t look like this support will be arriving soon…

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BroadWin WebAccess Client ‘bwocxrun.ocx ‘ Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

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Secunia Security Advisory – Wouter Coekaerts has reported some vulnerabilities in Vaadin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting, script insertion, and cross-site request forgery attacks and disclose potentially sens…

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Oboinus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Digital College, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been discovered in Norman Security Suite, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – Ubuntu has issued an update for firefox and xulrunner. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user’s system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Zope, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in TimeLive, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Ubuntu has issued an update for Puppet. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Puppet, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco IOS XE, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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The VA-API library, libva, and the Intel VA-API driver have been updated with some minor enhancements…

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Particle Code, a software platform that allows game/application developers to easily target multiple operating systems and mobile devices, may not only be gaining Linux support but could also become an open-source development platform if there’s suffic…

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Hyperic HQ Enterprise|E version 4.5.1 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities.

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Bank Transfer Day (Nov. 5) is just around the corner. Time to assert your economic citizenship and end the dysfunctional relationship with your blood-sucking bank.

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Welcome to the 171st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

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In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen reminisced about selling his company to Google. “Was there any way you could not have sold?” Sarah Lacy asked? Hindsight is 20/20 Chen replied.

Chen revealed that the entire $1.65 billion YouTube acquisition was completed in one week’s time. Chen met with executives from both Google and Yahoo, including Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, at a Denny’s in Palo Alto, “We didn’t want to meet at offices, so we were like, ‘Where’s a place that none of us would go?’”

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HeliOS has been criticized from time to time for giving computers to kids that probably wouldn’t use them to their full potential.I’m not going to argue the point. the criticism is more than likely valid.But we don’t operate on "mights" and "could be’s"We work on the assumption that with the right encouragement and strong parental guidance, the child will excel once given the right technology tools.A precocious, smart and goal-oriented 10 year old has helped prove that

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Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions used on Android smartphones and tablets. Being able to keep in touch with your friends, family, and colleagues on the move is essential for any platform, not least for a mobile platform. Fo…

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Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it’s being called, works both as a standalone browser alternative or in conjunction with Apple’s mobile Safari, similar to the way browser extensions work on the desktop Web.

Although HTML5 can already tap into some of a smartphone’s sensors, like the GPS and accelerometer, for example, appMobi’s MobiUs Web App Browser will go beyond HTML5′s current capabilities to provide access the smartphone’s camera, the ability to scan QR codes and barcodes, support for augmented reality, accelerated graphics, the ability to lock the rotation of the device and more.

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Apple QuickTime Prior To 7.7.1 ‘Flic’ Movie File Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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