Linux Android Backup offers an open source solution to backing up the most important content from your Android devices in just a few steps.

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Jasonette makes it supremely easy to build simple and advanced Android apps with a minimum of coding.

By the time you read this, the world will already know whether Ubuntu has succeeded in raising US$ 32 million in a crowdfunding effort to build a new Ubuntu-based smartphone. The project has been the talk of open source circles since it started. As of now, it looks like they will be around US$ 22 million short, but that’s the glass-half-empty assessment. The other side is: They have already managed to raise nearly US$ 10 million dollars to create a new smartphone – no small feat for a little fish swimming with the sharks in the sea of mobility.

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