The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
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13.3.2008 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 Office 12 Coming to a Smart Phone Near You
From Microsoft Watch:
Office 12 Beta 1 is due to hit any day now. We still don't know which pieces of the next-gen Office family will go to testers, or even how many Office 12 SKUs are likely to debut when the product goes gold in the latter half of next year.
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15.11.2005 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Google First Android Phone Released in New York
Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC.
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24.9.2008 First Android phone in stores today and tomorrow
While I like the fact that T-Mobile let us existing customers pre-order the T-Mobile G1 the day it was announced last month, the benefit of pre-ordering seems to have lost that huge advantage I was thinking we were gaining.
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21.10.2008 Microsoft, MCI Plan PC-To-Phone Service again
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
VoIP service will allow with outbound calling during tests
Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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14.12.2005 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"
Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog.
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9.3.2007 Zune phone? Ballmer says focus is Windows Mobile
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered questions Thursday night at a USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington campus, and at one point interviewer David Lieberman of USA Today asked about Microsoft's plans for a Zune phone.
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26.4.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft Wins 500,000 Phone-Software Order
Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets.
Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to unveil the deal today, general manager Scott Horn said in an interview.
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5.4.2006 Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone’s unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
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23.8.2007 Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone
Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows Live Contacts.
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14.5.2008 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 Why Windows is less secure than Linux ?
Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth.
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15.4.2006 Lenovo To Shun Linux
Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week.
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5.6.2006 $300 Linux Computers
AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system.
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16.7.2006 15 Years of Linux!
15 years have passed since Linux appeared. On August 25th 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds has announced the world about his new operating system:
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26.8.2006 Microsoft: 'Linux owes us'
In comments confirming many of the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that the Linux OS (operating system) infringes on his firm's intellectual property.
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18.11.2006 Gates on Vista, Linux and more
Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.
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18.11.2006 Microsoft threatens Linux again
I was waiting to come from Ballmer's threats against Linux on IP grounds last week never materialised, so it is time to do it myself.
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25.2.2007 The Linux lesson Windows needs
Gartner analysts are running about in Las Vegas, hair on fire, shouting that Windows is collapsing. Or about to collapse. Or something.
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11.4.2008 Can Linux beat the bloat
Linus Torvalds shocked the crowd (well, the group) at LinuxCon this week with three words.
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25.9.2009 Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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Hey Google, Where's The Linux Apps?
A member of a Denver Linux development shop wonders why Google hasn't made its applications available for Linux systems.
It's pretty remarkable that considering Google's fabled use of Linux on thousands of servers and hundreds of desktops that all the desktop applications coming out of the Googleplex, with the solitary exception of the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X, only run on Windows machines.
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19.11.2005The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap
price tag to attract a user base. Mobile phones a..
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09.02.2009The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap
price tag to attract a user base. Mobile phones are now a multi-purpose device, so bringing in both consumers and developers is needed to turn a
profit with an overcrowded cell phone market. Telefonica, one of the largest mobile operators in the world, has joined wireless Linux foundations
LiMo, along with five other major operators said they would bring Linux to the mobile phone. The open source platform will introduce a wide variety
of customizable applications to the phones.
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09.02.2009Linux mobile developer releases Web 2.0 platform suites
The mobile Linux company Azingo announced a new line of open source software it hopes can satisfy new phone applications developers' needs to offer
Web 2.0 technology to mobile phone users...
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02.02.2008LiMo wants to make Linux a mobile phone platform
Today at 3GSM in Barcelona, LiMo announced the release of a software development kit with the ultimate goal of providing developers with a completely
open, Linux-based alternative to other mobile operating systems...
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12.02.2008G1 cellular phone security bug
This week a security hole was discovered in Linux-based G1 cellular phone Android 1.0 that allowed you to gain root access to the device.
The trick was that you have to start up a telnetd server on the phone, and then anyone who knows your IP address can log into the machine without a
password to an administrator account.
When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed
on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed, in addition to going to the foreground application would be silently and
invisibly interpreted as a command and executed with superuser privileges.
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09.11.2008Linux.com won't be a news site, but instead a place for Linux
As first reported by " target="_blank">my
friend and colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Computerworld yesterday, probably the most important domain name that a Linux-associated
entity could ever want, Linux.com, was sold by SourceForge, and is now in the hands of the Linux Foundation.
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05.03.2009Shift Linux: A New Direction
Since its incarnation in 2006, Shift Linux has had an ambitious team behind it. We have always strived to be "more than just another linux
distribution", a goal which has never been more important than it is now. Over the next little while, Shift will be reborn and redefined, moving
farther away from traditional Linux roots, and into something newer. Linux will always be our core, but on top of that, we need to use new
technologies, both those that exist and those which we can only imagine, to build something fresh. Today, Shift Linux will move forward. We have
several new goals that are being set. First of all, Shift needs to be streamlined.
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23.11.2008HP joins the Ubuntu Linux bandwagon
HP's Linux support will no longer be limited to Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Through a new partnership with Canonical, HP is becoming one of the latest in
a series of huge IT players to hop aboard the Ubuntu Linux bandwagon...
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18.02.2009Microsoft My Phone First Impressions
Microsoft unveiled its new service called My Phone, a service to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web, at the Mobile World
Congress. The My Phone service helps users to automatically upload photos and video from their Windows phone directly to the My Phone service. The My
Phone service is currently available in a limited invitation-only beta Once you get access to the My Phone service, you can download and install the
My Phone installer cab to your Windows phone.
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17.02.2009Techs and execs collaborate on Linux apps
In more and more Linux deployments at banks and brokerages, the business side of the operation is getting heavily into the act. Collaboration is
becoming the keyword, and suddenly Linux developers find they're being joined by executives...
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02.04.2008Linux comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
Introduction I have toyed around with Linux on and off for the last few years, mostly with Ubuntu. My first experience of Linux was Ubuntu. At first
it was a bit scary, with me wondering if my CPU would implode should I type the wrong command. The more I used Linux though, the more I learnt about
my computer. This is why I think anyone who finds computers and technology interesting, should give it a go. And what better time to do so than now?
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04.12.2008New release of Linux kernel presents major changes
Linux expert Linus Torvalds announced in his blog on Wednesday that Linux kernel version 2.6.25 has been publicly released, with changes to WiFi
support, file system management, and virtualization...
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22.04.2008Nokia Linux Internet Tablet
Delayed
Nokia's Internet Tablet has
been delayed due to software
issues, the mobile phone maker
told the Reuters on Wednesday.
The Nokia 770 had originally
been scheduled for a late
summer launch. The tablet runs
on the Linux operating
system.
Photos:
View images
of the Nokia Internet
Tablet..
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05.10.2005Microsoft patents: Linux to become VFAT-free?
In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions
with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The Linux Foundation continues to maintain that Microsoft's VFAT
patents are not valid. And of course the United States is one of only a small handful of countries that even recognise software patents. However,
according to CNet, the Linux community has recently been taking steps to work around the entire VFAT patent issue. But what is the nature of the VFAT
patents, and how can Linux bypass them?
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03.07.2009Microsoft My Phone update and feature request(s)
Microsoft My Phone Team has announced that an update is available for My Phone application to address some of the known issues. Users will receive a
prompt to download and install the update the next time their phone syncs with their online account. The update can also be obtained by visiting the
My Phone installation page from the phone's browser. My Phone service will stop working if the update is not installed within 7 days of receiving
the prompt. Meanwhile in another blog post by the My Phone team, the team has acknowledged some of the great feedbacks discussed on the forums.
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04.03.2009Shift Linux to become based on Arch Linux
As part of our new direction, I am proud to announce that Shift Linux will be moving away from Ubuntu, and instead switching over to Arch Linux. There
are many reasons for this, including a more customizable distribution for us as developers to work with, and a faster and more streamlined start
point. In my letter to the community about our new direction, I said that Ubuntu would suit our needs fine, and when the time felt right, we would
consider a move. Since then, the outpouring of support from the Neowin community has been unbelievable, and so we decided to take advantage of the
moment.
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28.11.2008Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB
subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel This makes Linux the first operating system to
support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now.
According to Ankika Kehrer, "
he basic specifications for USB 3.0 show it to have a transfer rate of 5.0 Gbps. The standard was announced in
November 2008 by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.
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OSDL Declines Linux vs. Windows Study
Microsoft approached the Open Source Development Labs at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo about carrying out a study to compare its operating system with Linux, however the group balked at the idea saying it would likely be used as fodder for anti-Linux marketing...
betanews.com - 01.09.2005
Microsoft Holding Its Ground
on Office for Linux
Some prominent figures
in the Linux community believe
that as enterprises increase
their use of Linux on the
desktop, Microsoft Corp. will
be forced to consider offering
a version of Office for
Linux???or at least make its
software more interoperable
with open-source desktop
productivity
suites.
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When the [Linux desktop]
market share gets to a certain
point, Microsoft will, just as
it did with Apple [Computer
Inc.] in the past, make Office
available on Linux," Open
Source Development Labs Inc.
CEO Stuart Cohen told eWEEK in
a recent interview.
"I'm sure they
have done the work and that
they know what the market
numbers need to be for that to
be financially viable for
them. I really think that when
enough of their enterprise
customers' office workers,
help centers, IT and
engineering departments are
running Linux on the desktop
and interoperability really
becomes an issue, they will go
and listen to their
customers," he said,
acknowledging that he has no
evidence of any willingness on
Microsoft's part to allow
Office to run on top of Linux...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005
Nero Linux moves ahead with HD DVD, Blu-ray support
During the CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany, Nero announced plans to launch Nero Linux 3.5, which now promises to run on Linux subnotebooks
with smaller screen resolutions...
betanews.com - 06.03.2008
