Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all the benefit, Web metrics company Net Applications said today.
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Linux works for test
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In a recent interview, Anshul Jain of Tejas Networks discusses the capabilities of Linux-based test systems for manufacturing.
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Netbooks growing twice as fast as notebooks
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According to a new report, the market for netbook computers grew 40 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2009, almost twice the rate of standard notebooks. Netbook shipments actually outstripped notebooks in Latin America and Greater China.
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Open vs. Closed: the iPhone's Future or Folly?
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The two articles thus nicely make the point that openness is a matter of degree, and also illustrate the fact that the slope is slippery indeed between totalitarian requirements and proprietary decisions over what can, and cannot be done with as important an information, communication, and creation device as a modern smartphone.
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Bye Bye Linux
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Ripping of Blu-ray movies was also a common practice of some PS3 linux users...
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Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC Market
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The average consumer might not know much - if anything - about high-end technologies like pNFS, PCIe and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE), but they could revolutionize the consumer PC market in ways that most consumers can't even begin to imagine.
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Atom-based thin clients run Linux
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10Zig Technology has announced two physically identical thin clients compatible with Linux: a RBT-602 model, offering terminal emulation, and a RBT-672v system targeted solely at virtual desktop environments. Both thin clients offer a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, gigabit Ethernet, and four USB ports, the company says.
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Keep Linux visible, or growth stalls
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Now while I'm no self proclaimed marketing guru (Actually, I really suck at marketing), I am fairly versed in the simple science of economics. And since the two of them (marketing and economics) are more or less tied together, you have to have mastery of both if you want to succeed. And that's the way it is with Linux.
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Why No OtherOS Option on PS3 Slim? Sony Answers
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The recent release of the PS3 Slim brought about joy for those who were waiting for a less expensive/smaller gaming system and indignation for those who were waiting for a Linux experimental machine of the same type as there was no "OtherOS" or Linux option on this model. Why? we cry sadly. Because, the deep, omniscient voices of two Sony representatives boom back.
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Sony Tries New Tactics To Gain eBook Marketshare
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Sony has been trying lots of new strategies lately to gain marketshare, including adopting the open ePub eBook standard, but are they doing enough to attract a mass market and overtake the Kindle?
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Windows Loses Money, Linux Nears $1 Billion Mark
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In a time when Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic downturn, the open-source Linux operating system is flourishing.
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Somewhere between the smart phone and netbook markets, Canonical hopes to stir demand for Ubuntu on so-called Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Sharp seems to share that vision and is launching the PC-Z1 Mobile Internet Tool running Ubuntu 9.04. Here are some quick details.
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Linux guru: interface innovation is the challenge
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Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley believes Linux desktop environments need a dose of open source ingenuity rather than ape ideas from Windows and OS X. Bottomley, who also wears the hat of Director of the Linux Foundation and chair of its technical advisory board, says the next challenge for Linux as a whole is to take the lead in interface advancements.
Read more »Nokia's First Linux Phone Looks Good
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After several unofficial leaks, Nokia on Thursday officially unveiled the N900, the company's first Linux phone. It's a good first step to rejuvenate Nokia's smartphone line, but will the N900 have what it takes to go head-to-head with the iPhone and Android Phones?
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Shhhh. Here come the Motorola Android phones
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Motorola really needs to pull something exciting out of the mobile phone development bag if it is to regain any kind of meaningful position as a leader in the mobile phone innovation league table. So why is it being so d@mn secretive about the Android handset launch?
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