Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell confirmed that the company's Streak Android-based tablet, formerly known as the Mini 5 tablet, will be available in Europe next month from mobile phone carrier Telefonica O2
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Google and the Eclipse Foundation have announced the launch of Eclipse Labs, a Google hosted portal that will feature open source projects based on the Eclipse platform
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TechDirt Explains How Microsoft/BSA/IDC Game the Press, GNU/Linux is Getting Games!
While Microsoft is whining that it does not make as much money as it used to (the convenient excuse is counterfeiting), GNU/Linux is actually making further progress on the desktop and Valve starts viewing GNU/Linux as a first-class citizen
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Over a hundred Finland schools using open source
More than a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider.
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OpenOffice.org Still Kicking
Reports to contrary, the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 doesn't mean that OpenOffice.org is dead — or even wounded.
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It's a Windows vs. Linux Mobile Market Turf War
The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water.
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Cute Linux powered humanoid robot, speaks, listens and knows your face
This is wakamura a 100cm high little robotic pall , originally developed to be used in house as a baby sitter. It has face recognition for 10 faces and understands 10000 words. It's powered by Linux and it's developed by mitsubishi.
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Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood
If you ever have had doubts about the accuracy of all of those predictions about the future of computing being up in the clouds, consider this: according to a new report from IDC, in 2010 the amount of all the digital information produced on Earth will grow to 1.2 zettabytes, a convenient unit of data measurement that equals a staggering 1.2 trillion gigabytes of information.
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World's first $99 laptop
After the successful launch of the Cherrypal Africa product line (WinCE and Linux) in December of last year the company announced today the availability of its new sub-100-dollar laptop, the Cherrypal Asia. The “Asia” comes in its basic version with a 7” screen and Android 1.6.
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Linux Ice maker and vending machine, Cool!
This is MooBella a Ice Machine creating your ice cream while you wait, in less than a minute it serves you your Ice Cream and they claim it's better than Häagen-Dazs. The machine runs Linux, which makes it even more interesting. It would be great if they could supply us with a mini version of this beauty for at home.
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Proprietary Vendors Don’t Help Disabled, Says FSF
The open source FSF group has recruited a former proprietary software exec to make the GNU Project's work more accessible
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Open source hardware is making big bucks
IT TURNS OUT that 13 companies are making millions from their open source hardware (OSHW) products.
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NPD report: In the US, Android phones outsell the iPhone
According to market research from the NPD Group, in the US, sales of Android-based smartphones have, for the first time, overtaken Apple's iPhone sales
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Open source's integration jams
Integrating open source into proprietary applications has its challenges. Experienced IT execs explain how they did it
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Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam
Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that "any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."
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