Inside Contactless, a manufacturer of near field communications (NFC) chips, is releasing "Open NFC," an open source version of its NFC protocol stack for mobile platforms including Linux and Android. Meanwhile, Juniper projects that NFC will play a growing role in a mobile-ticketing market that will reach 15 billion tickets by 2014.
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UK Company Launches iTablet
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Now that Apple has chosen the famously awkward name “iPad” for its tablet, the most obvious candidate “iTablet” is up for grabs. X2 is happy to announce it’s “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch” with the iTablet, which will run Windows 7 and Linux.
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Could Nexus One Mark Beginning of the End of Google?
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Google has pissed off some powerful people of late, but none so much as the CEO of Apple. Jobs is unhappy about the Nexus One and gunning for Google. Could Google live to regret the day it decided to go into the phone business?
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Outfoxed?
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I saw on ars the other day that IE8 and Chrome are the two browsers with the most momentum at the moment: IE8 because it's the least-bad IE version, and Chrome because it's the hot new kid on the block, one imagines. Strange, really, when one considers how Firefox was the browser that came from nowhere and rekindled the browser wars..
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Phase Change Memory: The Next Big Thing in Data Storage?
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Phase change memory (PCM) - an emerging non-volatile technology pioneered by Intel, Numonyx, Samsung and others - could turn out to be a low-cost, more reliable, faster, and just plain better alternative to flash memory
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Android netbook runs on new ARM9 CPU
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China-based HiVision is readying an Android-based "PWS700CA" netbook with a 600MHz Rockchip ARM9 processor and a 7-inch, WVGA touchscreen, and according to one preview, it's likely to sell for under $100. HiVision also recently introduced a Linux-based "PWS700B" netbook, as well as an "EB-0600S" e-reader, says the company.
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Google Chrome OS Tablet Demo Video Like a Bolt From The Blue
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With the Apple iPad buzz going around, there can't be a better time to demonstrate the 'tablet' implications of Google Chrome OS. With the market leader, Microsoft, not having even one credible OS in the netbook or tablet range, one should be literally sleeping not to see the tremendous opportunity.
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Google Issues Nexus One Software Update
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Over-the-air update adds new features to Google's first branded mobile phone and addresses some of its problems.
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TPC Benchmarks Now Measure Server Power Use
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The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced its newest specification, TPC-Energy, which measures the energy usage of a server to gauge not only transactions per second but transactions per watt as well.
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London Stock Exchange Linux switchover set for September
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The London Stock Exchange will switch on the first module of its Linux and Unix-based trading platform in September, replacing existing Microsoft .Net architecture.
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Google spins multi-touch for Nexus One and tips Chrome OS tablet
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Days after a hacker broke open the inner multi-touch capabilities of Google's Nexus One, Google announced it is now offering pinch-to-zoom capability on the Android phone via a software update. In other Google news, the company has posted pictures of the Linux-based Chrome OS running on a tablet prototype.
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Free PR2 Robots Offered to Open Source Robotics Researchers
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Robot Reviews: "10 lucky research organizations will stand to benefit from Willow Garage's PR2 Beta Program, under which they will each be granted free use of one PR2 robot and earn the privilege to participate in the advancement of open source robotics development."
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Open standard defines tiny expansion modules
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Diamond Systems announced that it has originated a new, mezzanine-style expansion standard for SBCs (single board computers), COMs (computer-on-modules) and other embedded products. Involving a single low-cost connector and expansion modules "three-fifths the size of a credit card," the standard will be open and support any host form factor and processor, the company says.
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Microsoft IE Slips, Chrome Tops Safari
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According to the latest browser market share figures, Microsoft saw its Internet Explorer (IE) product continue to slide.
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AT&T Next Up for Google's Nexus One
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HTC, the Taiwanese builder of the Nexus One smartphone and a variety of other Android-based phones, has submitted documentation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that point to signs of a new and possibly different Nexus One phone for the A&T network.
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