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On a system that is Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for porting a popular game engine, Torque 2D MIT on the platform Android. As the name implies, the engine is distributed under a free license MIT.

At the moment, the engine supports platforms Windows, OS X, iOS. Upon successful completion, the company Max Gaming promises about a month to port the engine to devices based on Android 2.3 + (including Ouya).On account of Max Gaming few games based on the Torque engines, including issued under Linux. They have also been fulfilled porting T2D on XBOX 360 and other engines from iOS to Android.

In addition, with the successful financing of the project Nathan Martin (Nathan Martin) from the community of T2D, together with the employee Max Gaming Tim Newell (Tim Newell) promise to perform porting of the engine for Linux.
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Coffice (Calligra Office or coffee-in-office) – a new project to port Calligra Office on mobile platforms. Support will be platforms Android, Blackberry 10, Jolla Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Phone, as well as document formats ISO OpenDocument (ODF) and different formats Microsoft Office (both binary and XML). At the moment, Google Play available alpha version of Android from 2.1 inclusive. (more…)

The graphics cards and chip specialist Nvidia at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 presented with “Project Shield” own Android console. The hand-held device with a five-inch display offers a full controller and the latest generation of mobile computing as Tegra chips heart.

“ Project Shield ”also uses at CES 2013 featured Tegra 4 with four CPU cores and 72 graphics, which according to the manufacturer offers six times as much as the line graphics, familiar from the HTC One X and Microsoft Surface RT predecessor. In this case, the new chip consumes up to 45 percent less power than the Tegra third This promises best HD video enjoyment on the “retinal display” with 1,280 x 720 pixel resolution, the necessary power for uninterrupted joy even in complex games, while a battery life of several hours – better quantified, Nvidia’s statements but not yet.
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The Document Management System ownDMS is started with the aim not to give his documents to the cloud, but to leave it on its own servers.

OwnDMS is a document management system that can be hosted by the users, either on rented servers or on private computers. The implemented with MySQL and PHP program is under the free license GPLv3 and is currently at version 0.5. It is, according to the developer Jan Novak still in the alpha phase, but already functional.

Reason for the development of ownDMS according to Jan Novak was the desire not to give data to the cloud or to external service providers. In addition, the software should be as easy to use, so that everyone can deal with it.
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The company introduced the release Digia IDE Qt Creator 2.6, designed to create cross-platform applications using the library Qt. Supports the development of both classical programming in C + +, and the use of language QML to define scenarios that use JavaScript, and the structure and parameters of the interface elements are defined CSS-like blocks. Qt Creator source code distributed under license LGPL.

Highlight:

• Concept sets (Kits) replaced the previously used binding targets (Targets). Previously, the developer can add to the project goals, establish a set of standard pre-defined settings, for example, specify that you are creating an application for the desktop or remote access client. Now, instead, proposes a more general concept of sets (Kits). (more…)

Deploy linux - is a program with open source software, automating the process of installing and running GNU / Linux for Android.

The application creates a disk image on the flash card, mount it, and sets back the distribution of the operating system (OS). It also supports OS installation directly on the map section. Application of the new Linux-based system run in a chroot environment in parallel with the standard work platform Android. Installing the distribution over the network from the official mirrors online. Application uses the superuser (ROOT). Access to the Linux-system implemented by SSH or VNC.
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Nikon has the Android camera S800C at IFA, and now added to the sale.

Inside the compact digital camera an Android heart beats with the version 2.3 Gingerbread, by which one controls the camera functions.Additionally there is a 16-megapixel high image sensor, 10 x optical zoom and 4 GB internal memory which can be expanded via SD card. A GPS sensor is used for geotagging. Nikon missed the device has a 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED display.The camera comes with WiFi connectivity that allows users to transfer images on websites or social networks. Specifically, the image sensor and the powerful optical zoom to lift the quality of the Coolpix photos clearly of smartphone snapshots. (more…)

1C Company unveiled a trial version of the platform to automate the 1C: Enterprise numbered 8.3.2. Starting with version 8.3 thick and thin client platforms, and development tools, and administrative work in Linux . The new release adds the ability to develop mobile applications for systems based on Android and iOS. It is worth noting that it is about creating stand-alone applications that interact with other systems, and not on the mobile client platforms. mobile platform has several limitations, not all configuration objects, you can not use the system layout data and the distributed data bases are not available all form elements.
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The developer Kovid Goyal has released its free e-book management Calibre in the 0.9 version. Calibre is written in Python and licensed under the GPLv3.

Calibre 0.8, back about 16 months. The key new features in Calibre 0.9 include support for Android-based smartphones and tablets. The e-book management can connect via USB or Wi-Fi with Android devices. Goyal implemented in this class to the frequently used MTP protocol. Thus controlled via wireless devices such as USB-connected their counterparts behave Goyal completed the “Calibre Companion Android app.”
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For some time in China is another Linux-based mobile operating system OS Aliyun the e-commerce group Alibaba as Android challenger headlines. Now throws Android chief Andy Rubin from the Chinese, Aliyun OS used without permission the Android runtime.

Aliyun OS is a smartphone operating system of the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba , which is estimated by the Chinese firm strategists Zeng Ming be in the near future “in China as strong as Android in the U.S. and Europe.”

Now Google has taken some time to Alibaba Aliyun OS in the room standing allegations in words. Said Andy Rubin wrote on Google+ , Aliyun OS used without permission from parts of Google Android, such as the Android runtime, the Android framework and a number of other Android tools. Furthermore, the App Store for OS Aliyun contain many Google apps for Android without permission from Google and many other Android apps without the knowledge or permission of their respective owners.
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