Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff
in 2008
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| The momentum behind mobile Linux is accelerating because several communities
| — and commercial giants — are finally backing it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2241
Low-cost laptop wars: Vista, XP or Linux?
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| That small amount of storage rules out the use of Windows Vista on these
| machines. Even Vista Starter, the stripped-down, low-cost version intended
| for sale only in developing countries, is out.
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| Moblin.org provides developers with resources to develop mobile versions of
| Linux, including efforts to improve power management and develop a
| Mozilla-based browser that relies on a touch interface. Much of this work,
| including Canonical's Ubuntu Mobile Edition, will run on laptops and
| desktops, as well as mobile internet devices (MIDs).
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=12598
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Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
|
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone
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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling. "Once you have devices
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said. "[T]here's a
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone
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