It seems the $499 ultra-portable Asus Eee PC can do no wrong. The size of a paperback, weighing less than a kilogram, with built-in wi-fi and using flash memory instead of a hard drive for storage, the Eee PC has been winning positive comments not just from breathless reviewers but from ordinary people who have bought it and loved it.
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Android, Schmandroid: Linux on the iPhone
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Apple has been battling renegade Linux hackers, upgrading the iPhone's firmware every time they hack into the device. "It has been a little bit of an arms war," said Saurik, aka Jay Freeman. Will things change now that Apple has opened up its SDK to developers, welcoming the gaming community and targeting the enterprise space?
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Choke points in open source
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One of the continuing fears among Internet mavens is someone will find a choke point, control the market, and drive innovation under... One feature of open source is that it frustrates the seeker of choke points.
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Brazilian Enterprises Embrace Open Source
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Linux and related open-source software has gained an increasingly important role among large local corporations in Brazil, according to a recent study.
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The combination of free software from the likes of Linux and GNU with virtualisation - which maximises computing efficiency - is a compelling proposition. It offers lower costs, flexibility and greater efficiency, plus environmental benefits
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Why major mobile handset makers are riding with LiMo
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The executive director of the LiMo Foundation discusses his group's efforts to create and establish an open handset platform built on Linux.
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Parallel Computing`s Already Here
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Microsoft's Craig Mundie is right. Parallel computing is going to change everything about computing, but his timing is off. Thanks to Linux, it's been here for years.
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Explaining Open Source's Exponential Growth
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One of the problems with open source is that much of it happens invisibly. Whereas proprietary software, which is sold, has to publicised at some point, open source can simply be written: whether or not it gets used is a question of the author's personal inclinations.
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Google claims 'non-existent' Android beats everything but the Jesus Phone
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One day, Google believes, software developers will love its "non-existent" Android handset just as much as they love the iPhone - and maybe more.
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The future belongs to Linux
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The rising generation of programmers isn't being fed .Net and Windows. It's growing strong on Linux and its associated LAMP stack, as Robert Guth of the Wall Street Journal notes. Microsoft thinks it has an answer to this trend toward Linux.
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Battle of the featherweight notebooks: Everex CloudBook vs. Asus Eee
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The popular Eee now has a new challenger with the same price, same size and a different Linux distribution
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Seven Unified Communications Trends At VoiceCon
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VoiceCon kicks off March 17 in Orlando. But tech vendors are getting a jump on the event with unified communications announcements this week. Here are seven unified communication trends that will emerge at the show, The VAR Guy predicts.
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Is Microsoft Losing Ground With Portable Computer Users?
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Hey, what is going on here? In Thursday's list of Amazon's best-selling portable computers, only seven out of the top 25 run Windows! As you might expect, Apple takes a lot of the spots, but it's not just MacBooks. The Linux-based Asus Eee PCs and Nokia tablets are grabbing high positions in the list. That's a lot of computers that aren't paying tribute to Microsoft.
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Linux tool speeds up police computer forensics
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Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data-forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations.
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Another low cost Linux PC. I think we can officially call it a trend
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Joining the array of low cost Linux offerings such as the Asus Eee PC, the Everex Cloudbook , Elonux announced the Elonux One a sub 200 dollar Linux laptop targeted to go on sale in the UK starting in June. We saw similar announcements in the last couple weeks from Acer, who stated that “”Between the second and third quarters, we will have products that address ultra mobility and low-cost segments.” In addition Dell stated that it will “introduce more low-cost notebooks in Asia.” which will augment its Vostro 1000 notebook for sale in China which runs Red Flag Linux.
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