The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced the completion of the LiPS Release 1.0 specifications (download it here), with the intention of enabling mobile industry players to achieve basic interoperability for applications and services deployed on Linux-based phones.
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Microsoft Muscles In on OLPC Action
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Microsoft's plan is to offer low-cost versions of its Windows and Office software packages that fit on a 2 GB hard disk card. This will be able to be upgraded to new BIOS software so the company can ensure the operating system can boot directly from a memory card.
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The State of Music Business
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I’m, first of all, a passionate for music. My passion for music before I can recall it, and grew with the fact that I had the luck to have older brother and sisters whose music collection was wide enough to feed my music interests. Also since a little kid I was interested in technology, and started programming at the age of four. Being nowadays a music lover and also a musician, and at the same time graduated and working as a Computer Science Engineer, I feel myself lucky to have some ground bases to analyse the state of music business.
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Gartner underhypes open source
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I'm not sure who Gartner talks to when it puts together its famous "Hype Cycle" reports, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it talks with enterprises. I was recently reading through its "Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2007" report, and was astounded to find out that I've been tricked by paying customers into believing that they were, well, paying.
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Birmingham City Schools will be first in [USA] to get $200 XO laptops
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Birmingham city schools will be the first in the nation to receive laptop computers designed for children in third-world countries under an agreement completed over the weekend, Mayor Larry Langford announced Monday.
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Firefox has ‘at least’ 126m users
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John Lilly, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, has estimated that Firefox, the company’s popular open source web browser, is used by at least 126 million people around the world.
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Mobile likes Linux
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I've read an article today about a school in US that equipped its students with a new Asus eeePC 701 laptops. Aside the pedagogical issues, I find that very interesting from technological and social points of view.
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Documentation: Give it up; it won't happen.
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At one point in time and not too very long ago, I fancied myself a decent system administrator with a decent resume and work history. When I finished a series of writing tasks working on technology subjects that included system administration, I thought the time had come for me to work in a shop with Linux and MS.
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MIT OpenCourseWare expands for high school students
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking on the issue of inadequate education for youth by extending its OpenCourseWare (OCW) program to include secondary level students.
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Fresno Unified officials buy 1,000 wireless laptops that will fit on students' desktops.
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Thursday, school officials said they purchased 1,000 wireless laptops that fit on a desk alongside textbooks and notebooks, as well as give students the opportunity to build a digital portfolio of essays, drawings and other creations.
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Sharing the Supercomputer Wealth
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The M45, named for a star cluster, is considered one of the world's 50 fastest supercomputers. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Big Ben system, by comparison, debuted two years ago with capabilities for 10 trillion calculations per second.
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OpenSocial targets social apps API 'balkanization'
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Google's OpenSocial initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications is still in its early days. But its impact for end users, developers, Web site owners, social-network operators and even business application vendors could be huge in the long run.
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Going online, public TV chooses different licensing paths
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On Wednesday German public TV broadcaster NDR launched a pilot service offering free internet access to selected TV news and satire content, apparently under a "no derivatives" Creative Commons license.
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Another New Twist on Open-Source VoIP
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There's a feeling of inexhaustible energy radiating through the world of open-source VoIP. And the more we learn, the more we discover.
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Interview: The driver behind NASA's Mars Rovers
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What software and hardware do you use to do your job?
It all runs on a collection of high-end Linux boxes -- nice systems, but commodity PC hardware. Since 3-D visualisation is a big part of the job, the Linux boxes sport bonzer NVIDIA graphics cards.
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