Let’s do a small intellectual play: Web 2.0 services, or the current generation’s internet companies globally, are built for the most part on top of the so-called LAMP-stack. In other words their infrastructure is based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP – a selection of open source software programs.
Read more »How Linux Got To China And The Nordic Open Source Miracle
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Open source Plex media center to run on LG TVs
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The Plex developers have announced a new partnership with LG Electronics to bring their open source media centre to LG HDTVs and confirmed that a Windows version will be available "later this year"
Read more »Myth: Linux only has 1% market share
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Opponent’s of the Open Source and or Linux community are quick to point to reports that claim that Linux only has a 1 percent market share or a little over. What is the truth about the adoption of Linux?
Read more »Chrome Web Browser Market Share Set to Eclipse Firefox in 2011
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Google Chrome is without doubt the fastest growing web browser in terms of global market share. It was first released as a beta version on September 2008, and in just two years it quickly climbed to third place (behind Internet Explorer and Firefox) eclipsing Apple's Safari.
Read more »An open letter to IDC from ALT Linux CEO Alexey Smirnov
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Considering all of the above, I ask IDC to recall the study “Total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure in Russian schools” as being inconsistent with the facts of the reality and able to mislead the public education system officials and the general public.
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Strong early sales of $140 Android tablet surprise retailer
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Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet.
Read more »Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony
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Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera...
Read more »Toshiba to release 10 inch tablet running Android 2.2
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The Android tablets are coming as Toshiba plans to release its Folio 100 in the fourth quarter of this year and to give it its own software store
Read more »WeTab is based on MeeGo
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Intel and the 4tiitoo developers have confirmed that their upcoming WeTab tablet will run the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system
Read more »Chrome August's big winner as Internet Explorer resumes slide
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As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted. Internet Explorer has not managed to gain share for a third month in a row. Firefox is leveling out while Chrome and Safari continue to grow. Opera? It's hanging on to relevance. Between July and August, Internet Explorer dropped 0.34 percent, a drop smaller than June's or July's gain.
Read more »LiveText - A Crossplatform Online Education System
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In the last couple months I have posted my disgust about two different online education systems that are being used at various colleges around the United States. My dislike for these systems stems from the fact that even though they are web based, they do not adhere to Web Standards.
Read more »Open Source Software is “coming of age”: Accenture
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A new survey by management consultants Accenture has shown that Open Source Software (OSS) has reached what the firm describes as a ‘turning point’ in the corporate sector.
Read more »Open source 4.0: excellent for dancing
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It’s been interesting to see how many people have picked up on the concept of open source 4.0 especially since it was ignored when I first made reference to it over eighteen months ago.
Read more »Archos releases five budget Android tablets
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French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC
Read more »ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android Tablet announced
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The ViewPad 7 is an all-new capacitive multi-touch 7? tablet featuring 3G, Wi-Fi, Blutooth and front and rear facing cameras. From what we’ve seen so far ViewSonic’s latest device takes Dell’s lead with the Streak, but increases product size to bring it closer in line with the Apple iPad.
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