Kmart has begun touting a seven-inch "Gentouch78" Android 2.1 tablet for $150, as well as a Linux-based seven-inch color e-reader called "TheBook eReader," both from Augen.
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Calm down! Dell is not throwing Ubuntu Linux out!
People seem to love bad news. This last weekend, the 'bad' news was that Dell has stopped offering Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. There was only one problem with the story: It's not true.
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LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Collaborate on Mobile Operating Systems
LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation.
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GNOME and LiMo Foundation partner for assault on mobile market
The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for the LiMo Foundation.
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The GNOME Foundation and the LiMo Foundation have announced a new partnership with the objective of "collaborating closely on open source innovation"
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Increasing number of schools turn to open source
The number of schools in Austria that are considering to use or are using open source is increasing, according to school IT administrators and open source developers involved in education.
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Video: The Sub-$20 GNU/Linux Laptop?
A look at the GNU/Linux-powered gadget which can revolutionise affordable computing
Read more »Why Does FOSS Development Lag the Innovation Curve?
Are open source developers on the ball about delivering alternatives to cutting-edge proprietary products and services, or do they lag the proprietary innovators? That topic came up at this week's OSCON conference in Portland, and there is a case to be made for the idea that open source developers don't deliver key products in key categories fast enough.
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Ubuntu-ready netbook adopts new Atom
System76 has updated its Linux-based netbook to the Atom N455 processor as well as making it thinner and lighter. The Ubuntu 10.04 version of the 10.1-inch Starling NetBook offers more memory (2GB), a larger standard hard drive (250GB), faster Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and is available in a school-focused "EduBook" version.
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GENIVI chooses MeeGo for in-car infotainment systems
The Linux Foundation has announced that the GENIVI Alliance has selected the MeeGo software platform as the basis of their next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) for car companies including BMW and General Motors
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ABI Research on a Bright Future for Linux in Devices
Where devices are concerned, Linux is all over the place and it's important to ensure that Microsoft does not tax Linux using software patents
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Linux on mobile fast-track
Linux will dominate mobile by 2015. That's according to a new report from technology analyst ABI Research.
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The Open Source Software That Runs Facebook
If anyone tells you open source can't run a large business or scale, remind them that Facebook is serving a half billion people with a network built on open source code. Quite a bit of it, as Developer.com notes, much of what runs Facebook is open source languages and software.
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Android fragmentation
Six releases in 18 months. Is it too much? With six releases in just a year and a half is Android risking extreme fragmentation? Or is this just the way Google does business?
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China and the Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop
It's an old joke by now that this year will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop – just like last year, and the year before that. But now there's a new twist...
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