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SCO wants to revive the legal battle over Unix patents

Published on: 14th July, 2010

In a last-minute effort to revitalize the legal battle over Unix patents, SCO Group has recently filed an appeal. This newest move comes after seven years of ineffective litigation, which concluded in the jury verdict and final judgement against SCO in the US District Court for the District of Utah. Even if judge Ted Stewart [...]

Nokia intends to change Ovi Store application rules to resuscitate interest

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Nokia has reformulated some of the rules and software in order to revive developer interest for the Ovi Store. The Finnish company is finally reacting with a long awaited move and now lets individuals, besides companies, to register as Ovi Publishers. It is also possible now for developers to have their applications signed for free, [...]

The iPhone aims to lead the top three in the United States

Published on: 11th June, 2010

The iPhone has slightly gained smartphone market share in the United States, according to a Nielsen study. This rise seems to be at the expense of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones. Data for the fourth quarter 2009 and the first quarter 2010 shows a rise of two percent, reaching 28 percent. BlackBerry has kept its [...]

Coalition to boost creation of Linux-based devices

Published on: 9th June, 2010

Important electronic producers have formed a coalition with the declared goal of boosting the creation of devices based on Linux. ARM, Freescale, Texas Instruments, IBM, ST-Ericsson and Samsung are all partners of Linaro in this project and will provide software and tools meant to encourage the creation of open-source tablets and other devices in an [...]

Amtek prepares iTablet for Computex conference

Published on: 2nd June, 2010

Amtek has made ready several iTablet- and T23-series of its tablets for the next Computex conference in Taiwan.
The iTablet Speed-Lite has a 10.1-inch display with wither 1,024×600 or 1,024×768 choice for the resolution. Windows 7, Windows CE, Linux, or Android 2.0 can be chosen as the operating system. The tablet has 1GB of DDR2 RAM [...]

Multi-touch available for Linux and Chrome OS?

Published on: 24th April, 2010

Synaptics Inc., a human interface solutions developer, has announced its Synaptics Gesture Suite ready for Linux-based devices. This way, multi-touch support is available for the first time to the open source operating system. Synaptics is currently offering multi-touch interface for Windows-based TouchPad devices.
The Synaptics Gesture Suite can also be used on Google Chrome OS-based devices [...]

Intel releases the first Atom platform for home storage servers

Published on: 9th March, 2010

Intel has announced at CeBIT the release of its first Atom-class processor platform optimized for small office and home storage markets. Single- and dual-core Atoms, D410 and D510 respectively, are meant for this purpose and they will run on Microsoft Windows Home Server and Linux operating systems. Intel estimates up to 50 percent power reduction [...]

Amazon and Microsoft have agreed to a cross-licensing regarding the Kindle

Published on: 1st March, 2010

Amazon and Microsoft have recently agreed to a cross-licensing for each other’s patents. According to this deal, Microsoft will have special access to technology behind the Kindle e-book reader as well as the implementation of Linux on servers by Amazon. Detailed terms of the deal have not been revealed and it is not known what [...]

New plug-and-play UIM device from Infinitec

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

A new upcoming Infinite USB Memory (IUM) device has been recently showed by Infinitec. This makes content and stream media sharing possible from any other connected device. It seems that all file formats are compatible, no matter their extension or type and users can also stream files from their PCs to Blu-ray players, gaming consoles [...]

Android device from Logitech soon available?

Published on: 12th January, 2010

Recent job postings suggest that Logitech might be working to release an Android-based device. There is a post indicating that the Freemont, California office is seeking a “super-star engineer” to be employed as a developer for Android applications on an embedded Linux system. The engineer would work on a user interface meant for web-based streaming [...]

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