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Nokia Unveils Its First Linux Phone N900

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_411" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Nokia's First Linux Phone N900"][/caption] Nokia unveiled N900, its first smart phone running on Linux software, aiming at improving its offering at the top end of the market. The Nokia N900 runs on the Linux-based Maeme 5 software, featuring true multitasking with applications as well as Web ...

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...

How Much Is The Software In A Linux Distribution Worth?

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The Linux operating system is the most successful open source project in history, but just how much is the software in a Linux distribution "worth"? The Linux operating system is the most popular ...

Nokia Hints Wider Use Of Linux In Phones, Not Android

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, could start to use open-source Linux software on its more expensive phone models, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Nokia recently unveiled a smart phone N97 recently. "In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones," Ukko Lappalainen, ...

Chrome: Another Browser From Google

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Google released beta of Chrome, their own browser. Google said in its announcement: "To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean ...

Linux Killer Application: AppChecker

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Many of the developers face one problem in Linux applications development, that to ensure the application works fine in all distributions like SUSE, Redhat, Debian etc. Fortunately, The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make vendors and programmers start ...

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