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Electronic chip designer ARM has teamed up with five of its major partners to boost the use of free Linux software on cellphones, challenging Nokia's Symbian and Microsoft.
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Intel demos MeeGo for tablets, netbooks and touch screen PCs
At this year's Computex PC trade show taking place in Taiwan, Intel has been demonstrating a number of reference MeeGo devices, including netbooks, touch screen PCs and Moorestown-based tablets
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Intel answers Microsoft's Linux 'noise' with MeeGo show
Microsoft and Intel are fighting for the affections of hardware makers as the PC industry tries to answer Apple's iPad. The world's biggest software company used the annual Computex show in Taiwan to release a preview of Windows Embedded Compact 7 — the latest rebranded version of Windows CE, which has been promised on tablets from Asus, LG, and MSI.
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Linaro: Accelerating Linux on ARM
At our last UDS in Belgium it was notable how many people were interested in the ARM architecture. There have always been sessions at UDS about lightweight environments for the consumer electronics and embedded community, but this felt tangibly different.
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ARM, Freescale, Samsung, IBM & TI form Linaro
Processor manufacturer ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have teamed up to form a new software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source for the next generation of always-connected, always-on computing
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Intel seeks consumers for MeeGo
Intel has released more details and the deployment roadmap for the company's MeeGo operating system (OS), highlighting its desire for consumers to start utilizing the open source platform.
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On Teaching Open Source Development
One of the constants in my interactions with the Linux and open source communities is that they--all of them--are out there, in the big wide world, while I remain ensconced in my fortress of solitude here in Northern Indiana.
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Hands-on with the Kno tablet
While the iPad is the device that everyone is talking about, another tablet made its debut at D: All Things Digital on Wednesday.
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There's no Stopping the Growth of the Linux-based Smartphones
According to ABI Research, a market intelligence company that specializes in global connectivity and emerging technology, Linux-based smartphone shipments will outstrip growth of the entire smartphone market in 2010. By 2015, they anticipate that the market share of Linux-enabled smartphones will be at 33%.
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Novell releases netbook SUSE Linux
VANQUISHER OF SCO Novell, which is seeing off a buyout from a vulture capitalist fund, has annouced it will release a SUSE flavour of Meego that is a fully supported Linux operating system for netbooks.
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Technologies and 2011 as the year of Linux – The underpinnings of success
The first and most frequent point of contact between the user and their computer is the Desktop Environment (DE), the aggregation of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers, shortcuts and desktop widgets, themed and styled in a given way to create a distinctive graphical user interface (GUI).
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SUSE MeeGo: a new Novell Linux for netbooks
Novell is working on a successor to SUSE Moblin which will use components of the Nokia and Intel driven MeeGo operating system. It's expected that SUSE MeeGo will be available pre-installed on consumer devices within the next 12 months
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10-inch Android tablet offers 1366 x 768 display
Yukyung Technologies showed off a Viliv-branded, Android-based tablet at Computex equipped with a 10-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen. The Viliv X10 Tablet with Android offers an SD card reader, USB port, HDMI, webcam, and WiFi, and "could be an incredible iPad alternative," according to a hands-on Laptop story.
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Intel Press Release Reveals MeeGo Future in Netbooks
Intel's Computex press release highlight a variety of initiatives by the company, and slipped in added netbook support for the Linux-based MeeGo operating system, an open source joint venture between Nokia and Linux itself.
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