Though new smartphones, mobile devices and mobile applications of all kinds are sure to surface at the conference, industry watchers say Google's open source platform Android will grab the lion's share of headlines.
Read more »Mobile World Congress Preview: All About Android
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Delta Informatique Deploys Mandriva for banking system
Mandriva, with its Mandriva Linux 2009 solution, allowed Delta Informatique to migrate to a reliable and secure environment optimising work time and limiting maintenance and compatability problems.
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Archos 5 Internet Tablet reviewed
What is an Android device like without the Google apps? We take a look at the Archos 5 Internet Tablet to find out...
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Is Your Smartphone a Thin Client?
Since it's 2010, the future was supposed to be here by now. There is, however, one area that's living up to the Future Shock hype: the ever-expanding capabilities of smartphones. Still in their infancy, it doesn't take much imagination to see them as all-powerful tiny supercomputers.
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Learning with the computer using open source
An American developer studying in New Zealand is using the open source Python programming language to build an educational voice and vision dialogue system as part of his doctorate thesis.
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Top 10 areas where open source leads the way
With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer.
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ABC allowing Linux to view streaming television shows
Linux users for a long time have been kept out of ABC Television's streaming media. Today I checked, and this artificial limitation is no more!
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10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone Sales
Let's take a look at why Torvalds and the Linux community could affect iPhone sales, while helping Google's Android platform.
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Memo to Dell: Sort Out Your Ubuntu Strategy
Dell's Ubuntu strategy once again faces Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). Multiple times in the past 12 months or so, Dell's strong Ubuntu efforts have been undermined by disappearing desktop offerings. Here's what's wrong - and right - with Dell's Ubuntu initiatives.
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The application is the new the operating system
In this post-PC, post-OS world, can open source play a leading role? I think so, as does Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. But it's going to require a very different kind of open source than we've hitherto experienced.
Read more »Archos posts 'full' Linux distro for Android tablet
Media player maker Archos has posted a full Linux distro that will run on its Archos 5 machine. The 5 ships with Android as standard, but open sourcerers can download a special, emebedded build of Angstrom Linux and use it to replace the Google OS.
Read more »Dell dropping its Ubuntu offerings?
Purchasing a preinstalled Linux system may have gotten a little harder, as one Gripe Line reader and loyal Dell customer recently found out.
Read more »6 of the Best Android Mobile Devices
Android is the name given to a mobile operating system using a customised version of the Linux kernel. It was first released in late 2008. The platform enables developers to write code in the Java language, controlling the device via Java libraries developed by Google.
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Where are the Linux tablets?
With the release of Apples’ iPad the tablet is the new netbook. How will Linux and the open source community respond?
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If Obama guts NASA, the Open Luna Foundation looks bright
With the Obama Administration gutting NASA's return to the Moon program, we need to look to private industry to lead the way in returning humans to space. Open source could be the ticket to get us there better, faster and cheaper
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