Ubuntu For Android Makes Your Phone a Desktop Computer

By Tanzeel Hassan


Get ready to taste the big cheese! If you want to experience the desktop feel at your phone then don’t rush to buy Motorola Atrix. Canonical has released the doozy Ubuntu for Android which helps the techies to access the desktop OS in an all new way.

Ubuntu for Android is neither an Ubuntu app running on Android nor an all-Ubuntu device running an Android emulator. Canonical beamed that “we’ve brought Android together with Ubuntu, the world’s favourite free operating system, to give you a full productivity desktop that fits in your pocket. Android for the phone experience, Ubuntu for the desktop, all on one device, running at the same time.” It brings Android with the Linux-based Ubuntu distribution, the device running on Ubuntu for Android offers Android with the Linux-based Ubuntu, it loads Android and then swaps to Ubuntu once it’s been slipped into a dock which connects monitor, keyboard, and mouse. With the Ubuntu for Android you will be able to enjoy two flavors OS belonging to different worlds in one device.

A phone with a desktop OS is nothing new, Motorola has already done this experiment with Atrix which brings Motorola’s “Webtop” OS and hardware Lapdock. Then what’s new in Ubuntu for Android? Well Ubuntu is much more useful as its large installed base and open-source origins might makes Canonical’s idea a perfect choice to go for. You can now share your contacts, media, and apps among both Android and Ubuntu. The desktop OS also prop up MMS/SMS and phones calls and comes with non-stop 4G usage and better Google Doc.


Hopefully it is enough to entice you, but hey, hold your horses as Ubuntu for Android will be loaded to devices by manufacturers, and USB and HDMI hardware support is a must to use the OS.

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The Pirate Bay one step closer to being shut down in the UK

By Bradley Wint

A high court ruling earlier today has pushed UK ISPs one step closer to blocking file sharing site The Pirate Bay.


The Honorable Mr. Justice Arnold made a ruling today in a United Kingdom High Court saying that The Pirate Bay and its users are involved in unlawfully sharing copyrighted music, adding that TPB goes “far beyond merely enabling or assisting.”


While the facts themselves comes as no surprise, it now means that the UK government is getting closer to blocking the website’s services entirely on the basis that The Pirate Bay has not done anything to stop the exchanging of copyright content.


“Despite their ability to do so and despite the judicial findings that have been made against them, the operators of [The Pirate Bay] take no steps to prevent infringement.


“On the contrary … they actively encourage it and treat any attempts to prevent it (judicial or otherwise) with contempt.”


Various British music groups have also jumped behind the judge’s ruling, saying that the site encourages illegal file sharing which takes a significant cut out of legitimate sales and damages the industry as a whole.


A decision will be made in June as to whether The Pirate Bay will be allowed to continue operations or be blocked entirely throughout the UK (via ISP blocking).


It is clear now that various music groups and governments are no longer sitting down on the war against piracy. Earlier this year, MegaUpload and its subsidiary websites were shut down on various charges of copyright infringement, and it seems that there really is no hope for the file locker giant. As a result, others have started running scared.

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