05.21.08
Links 21/05/2008: Big Win for Linux with Nokia, Car System, Low-cost Laptop
GNU/Linux
- Nokia eyes wider usage of Linux in cellphones
“It’s going to be terribly important,” Nokia’s Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson told an investor conference when asked about the role of Linux-based tablets.
He said the company has been developing the next generation of Linux-based products, which are starting to come to the market.
- Nokia “definitely” preparing Linux-based phones, flavor unknown
- Don’t Ask About the Smartphones, Symbian CEO Says
- World’s cheapest Linux-based laptop?
A Hong Kong-based manufacturer is shipping a Linux-based ultra-mini PC (UMPC) laptop for only $250 ($180 in volume), which appears to give it the lowest price yet for a Linux laptop. Bestlink’s Alpha 400 offers a 400MHz CPU and a 7-inch, truecolor display.
- Linux Soon to be in your Car
Thanks to a new joint effort between Intel and Wind River, you may soon be running Linux in your car.
- Atempo Adds Mac, Linux Support to Live Backup
With Version 3.2 Atempo is expanding client support to the fast growing Mac and Linux platforms.
- SUCCESSFUL: Fujitsu U810 Triple Boot
- Chicks Love Linux [Sexism warning]
- Linux Installation Guide: So easy, even your grandmother could do it! [Sexism warning]
- Are Google and Amazon the Next Great Hope for the (Linux) Desktop?
F/OSS
- Network Solutions & Open-Xchange to offer Hosted SMB E-mail and Groupware
- DHS report: Open-source code “quality” is up
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.
- CeBIT 08: Red Hat and Ice Systems join for Open Source 3.0
- CeBIT 08: Senator Lundy lobbies for Open Source change
Lundy also described debates about allowing open access to Crown copyright material, open access to government-funded research, and Open Source licensing of software that is developed with taxpayers’ money.
“Governments tend to want to hold onto that [software] as an asset, and a lot of opportunities for innovation are lost that way,” Lundy said.
- Marketcetera Targets Buy-Side with New Open Source Algo Trading Platform
- VeriSign Takes Aim at Open Source DNS
- Active Broadband Networks Releases Open Source IPDR/SP Collector and IPDR Re-Exporter
- Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Enhancements For Small Business
Relying heavily on open source offerings, OCS has been designed from the ground up for the SMB market and has already been adopted by more than 500,000 companies worldwide.
- Open Source Dimdim Eagle Takes Flight
- Teragram Integrates Linguistic Tools with Apache Lucene Open Source Search Engine
- Is SaaS ‘Unstoppable’ For Open Source?
Microsoft and Crime
- Ex-Microsoft domain buyer’s sentencing in June
- Dysfunctional executive watch
- Busted: Eight Ex-AOL Execs Charged With Ad Revenue Fraud
- Amazon Accused of Anti-Trust Violations “Tied” to Print-On-Demand Terms
- Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists
- Microsoft admits some PCs won’t be offered Vista SP1
- Windows 7 [aka: Windows 7apourware]: The information lockdown continues
Leftovers
- Napster nails DRM with largest MP3 catalogue
- Citrix Makes the Desktop Virtual With XenDesktop
- Desktop virtualization is inevitable
Direct link: ‘Bill Gates says “Vista Sucks”‘
Yoda said,
May 21, 2008 at 5:05 am
Apple is ever worse than Microsoft.
They are locking down the hardware also…