I recently came across an Ubuntu-based device that is designed for viewing streaming and local video content on an HDTV. The majority of content providers stream content with proprietary codecs using DRM (Digital Rights Management) that are only compatible with Windows.
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Can Linux win netbooks back?
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Has Linux just lost the best chance it had to break into the mainstream desktop operating system market?
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Nokia prepping tablets, netbook, touchscreen phones?
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Nokia will release a new touchscreen-based Internet Tablet in the fourth quarter, says TheStreet. Meanwhile, a Nokia haptic touchscreen-based smartphone is due in the third quarter, followed by a "Nautilus" touchscreen phone shipping in 2010, and possibly a Foxconn-manufactured Nokia netbook, the financial website claims.
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Linux Foundation CEO: Linux is "fastest growing platform"
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Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Linux adoption is advancing two to three times faster than that of other platforms and that it will be boosted as companies consolidate their technical infrastructure during this economic downturn.
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Asterisk renumbers open source VoIP
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The open source Asterisk VoIP PBX is now at its 1.6.x release -- it's a number that Asterisk is going to stay at for a long time. That's the message that Kevin Fleming, Director of Software Technologies at Digium and co-maintainer of the Asterisk told attendess at the IT360 conference here in Toronto.
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OLPC Prepares To Update Hardware, Should Be Reducing Cost
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When the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) first started, they had an incredibly innovative idea: create cheap laptops for children in developing countries. Unfortunately, the program hit to major stumbling blocks: First, the laptop they came out with cost twice as much as had been planned. Second, everyone else started making cheap laptops, too.
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OggVorbis in RTVE
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"...there is an initiative to ask RTVE to publish the audio contents in the free OggVorbis format. There is an open thread in the "Suggestions" section of the RTVE forum. We are asking the people to left a comment there asking RTVE to publish their contents using OggVorbis..."
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The Linux Foundation Abandons Xen After Microsoft/Windows ‘Hijacked’ It
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It's time to standardise on KVM, decides the Linux Foundation. For those who are new to this discussion, here is necessary background on Ignition Partners, XenSource, Citrix, and Microsoft. It's reassuring to see that not only Canonical and Red Hat (in that order) realised what was going on.
Read more »Novell Won’t Coordinate Releases with Canonical/Ubuntu
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Mark Shuttleworth speaks to Novell about coordination, but it does not work out
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TechCrunch Isn’t the Only One Looking at Web Tablets
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It looks like the people at TechCrunch (or whoever is working on it for them), have been working on a cheap touchscreen tablet for internet surfing and casual computer tasks. It looks like they might not be the only ones around, though. GiiNii is working on an Android-powered half iPod Touch, half touchscreen web tablet device that will come in 4-inch and 7-inch screen versions.
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Android destined for a set-top box?
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Motorola and KDDI are developing a new version of their Linux-based Au Box set-top box (STB) that runs the Android stack.
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Linux In Your Ear: Getting Louder, Or Softer?
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Time to revise another assessment. It looks like it isn't going to be a question of "will your next phone run Linux?" but "which Linux is it?" Between Android branching out into set-top boxes and both Panasonic and NEC pulling the covers off new LiMo-driven phones (and Motorola also in that running), the mobile market's becoming a Linux market ...
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Open Source 2009: It’s the Economy, Stupid. Or is it?
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About a week before attending the Open Source Business Conference last month, I heard an interview on public radio with the founder of Good News Network, a web site dedicated to reporting nothing but — you guessed it — good news.
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Why Nettops Just Can’t Quite Compete
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Out of the Netbook craze, a new category was born: the Nettop. The Nettop is supposed to be the desktop equivalent of a Netbook, being inexpensive and small. It's not a bad idea, but I agree with the author of this OSNews article that they are a bit over hyped, but for a different reason.
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Why Microsoft won round one of netbook wars
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Free is not the lowest possible price. If you want to get sell-through at retail, you have to support the product with collateral materials, with ads, with sales training and support.
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