Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to SpreadFirefox website. Mozilla is celebrating this by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. Which is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day.
In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The rumor mill is abuzz with speculation that Google is partnering with computing firm Dell to launch a mobile phone based on the web services giant's fledgling Android OS. According to MarketingWeek, senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their collaboration at February's Mobile World Congress (MWC) event ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Google announced the open source mobile operating system Android, and released the SDK for Android in November.
By combining an Android Software Development kit with an emulator and a Poky Linux kernel, a hacker called Cortez has created an installer which enables interested parties to run the platform on the Sharp ...
Posted in Software, OS, Open Source, GPhone, Linux, Google, Mobiles | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 11th, 2008
A spin-out from OLPC, the company, Pixel Qi is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones and other consumer electronics that are sunlight readable, Jepsen wrote on the company's Web site. Jepsen left OLPC two weeks ago to commercialize technologies ...
Posted in Innovative, Research, Linux, Trends, Computers | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. Flexibility and lower cost are among the goals.
"What we want is to be able to take advantage of technology advances ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Firefox has confirmed it is working on first a Linux version, followed by Windows Mobile 6 version. Christian Serjersen of Mozilla wrote in his his blog that a Symbian version will come down the line as well.
He listed out the goals of the program as:
provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, ...
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