Hewlett-Packard (HP) is preparing a "Zeen" Android e-reader that interfaces with a new HP printer, says an industry report. Meanwhile, HP has postponed its WebOS-based "Hurricane" tablet to 1Q 2011
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Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone
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There's no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it's all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson -- a company that has yet to even introduce an Android 2.0 device -- is at work on a project to redefine gaming on Google's mobile platform.
Read more »Qualcomm Pushes For Less Linux Fragmentation
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The fragmentation of mobile Linux needs to be addressed, Qualcomm executive Rob Chandhok told developers at LinuxCon
Read more »Dell Streak: The Versatile Android-powered Tablet Computer
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Is Dell Streak (formerly known as the Mini 5) a tablet computer or a smartphone? We could say both...
Read more »The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market
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Linux has been around for almost two decades now. It has become a resounding success as a server OS (for example as the L in the famous LAMP stack), and more recently as a mobile OS (Android). But what about on the desktop?
Read more »Desktop Linux: Great for the Environment, Bad for Economy?
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Is using desktop Linux better for the environment than say, running Microsoft Windows or Apple's OS X?
Read more »Open Source Projects that Changed the World
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To many, open source software isn’t just about getting something for free, it’s a statement about how the world should be. Here are seven projects that have, quite literally, changed the world.
Read more »Ubuntu Probably the First Ever Linux Distro to Overshoot Popularity of Linux Itself
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I don't know if that is a good news or bad news, but Ubuntu is going to be more popular than Linux itself according to some statistics via Google Trends and Google Insight.
Read more »The golden age of open source?
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Stephen O’Grady and Simon Phipps have both recently published interesting posts on the current state of open source, with Stephen pondering the relative growth of open source and Simon wondering whether the “commercial open source” bubble has burst.
Read more »Where would we be without open source software?
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So that's it. No more open source software. It's gone, all of it. Now what state is the world in now? Obviously there would be no more Linux, BSD, Gimp, Open Office and the rest.
Read more »The Open Source Army of the Future
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Unleash the iPhones of war! The Army’s announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year.”
Read more »Agencies count open source among desktop PC alternatives
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It didn’t take long after the desktop PC earned a regular seat at the enterprise technology table in the early 1990s for agency managers to realize that PCs can be a real drag. What’s the plan?
Read more »Report: Android Market surpasses 100,000 apps
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According to AndroLib, Google's Android Market for mobile applications has surpassed 100,000 applications, although Google's most recent numbers from mid-July put the figure closer to 70,000
Read more »Linux set to dominate mobile market by 2015
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New analyst’s report predicts a bright future for Linux mobile market with a 62% share expected by the year 2015. Rory MacDonald investigates these astonishing claims…
Read more »MeeGo for IVI version 1.0 released
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The MeeGo developers have released version 1.0 of the MeeGo software platform for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI); the previous MeeGo releases have focused on netbooks, smartphone handsets and the user experience on those devices
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