____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 21 July 2007 11:41 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Hello world - Avoiding punitive roaming charges abroad
>>
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>>| Unlike the iPhone, the Neo comes with global positioning and navigation
>>| maps, a slot for a Smart Digital memory card, and a Linux-style
>>| ?applications manager? for downloading, updating or removing software
>>| applications. It also offers BlackBerry-style instant e-mail along with the
>>| ability to synchronise with a PC.
>>|
>>| A host of applications?from exercise programmes and calorie counters to
>>| alcohol breathalysers?are being made available by a global community of
>>| Linux programmers. Check out what?s coming at www.openmoko.org.
>> `----
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>> http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9531007
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>> No publication can escape the existence and importance of Linux.
>
> The economist has run several well-researched articles which take a
> fairly dispassionate view of open-source; they seem to be at the other
> end of the scale to Forbes magazine.
I.e. they have plans to survive as a publication in tomorrow's economy.
InfoWorld recently stopped publishing in paper form and InformationWeek sold
its soul to Bill and Steve. Don't they know what happens to
Microsoft 'partners'? DinformationWeek has been mocked and got _a lot_ of bad
press (spot the irony!) in recent weeks. They are busted.
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~~ Best of wishes
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