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Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop

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 ...

NYSE Switches To Linux

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 ...

Firefox For Windows Mobile Coming Soon

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, ...

OHA Releases Android SDK

Friday, November 16th, 2007

The Open Handset Alliance released an early version of the Android Software Development Kit, providing the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform. The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can download the Android ...

Android: Google’s Open Source Mobile OS

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The gPhone is not released yet with all those speculations and rumors, but Google joined forces with leading mobile technology companies to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of ...

LiMo: A Big Step Forward For Mobile Linux

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The duopoly of Windows Mobile and Symbian is to face its biggest challenge yet, with six big names in mobile telephony backing the development of a new Linux-based software platform for mobile phones. The LiMo Foundation, originally founded by Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, Vodafone, and NTT DoCoMo in ...

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