Microsoft's Mobile Trouble, Via Linux
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| But look to a future when people carry around mobile devices that act more
| like computers than today's cellphones. Will the software giant still be the
| de-facto operating system?
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| The Wall Street Journal's CES Notebook Blog reports that both Intel (INTC)
| and Qualcomm (QCOM) are planning to use Linux, not Microsoft, for new pocket
| PC devices.
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/01/microsofts-mobile-trouble-via-linux.html
Case of point:
Make OS2008 for N800/N810 Look Beautiful
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| The first change you notice after updating from OS2007 to OS2008 on your
| Nokia N800 Internet tablet(or after buying N810) is that it looks remarkably
| good and comes with a better set of themes and background images.
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http://beans.seartipy.com/2008/01/08/make-os2008-for-n800n810-look-beautiful/
Trolltech switches sides in mobile Linux war
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| The open-source development company Trolltech has switched sides in the
| ongoing war between the various mobile Linux consortia.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39291973,00.htm
Related:
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
CES 2008: E-Lead Noahpad UMPC
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| So, E-Lead will apparently be showing off a new UMPC that looks (not-so-)
| surprisingly like the Eee PC that everyone has fallen in love with. The main
| differences are the lack of flash memory, a different distro of Linux, and
| some sort of weird input interface.
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http://www.slashgear.com/ces-2008-e-lead-noahpad-umpc-319281.php
After the Desktop -- What?
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| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
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http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
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