Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Nokia announced it will acquire the remaining shares of mobile software licensing company Symbian Limited--moreover, the handset giant will team with Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo to unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP technologies and forge a single open mobile software platform. The firms will also collaborate ...
Posted in Gadgets, Google, GPhone, Mobiles, Nokia, Open Source, OS, Smart Phone, Software, Trends | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Firefox 3 was released on 17 June. And its already downloaded more than 14 million as of now, heading for a record.
You can watch the live count as it streams in from Mozilla's raw server logs, and according to the download day page, the majority of downloads have come from ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Linux Kernel: Who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care.
The Linux kernel is the lowest level of software running on a Linux system. It is charged with managing the hardware, running user programs, and maintaining the overall security and integrity of the whole system. ...
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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 Google, GPhone, Linux, Mobiles, Open Source, OS, Software | 1 Comment »
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