Korean Linux MID boasts digital-TV
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| A non-profit Korean government-funded research organization has demonstrated
| a prototype mobile Internet device (MID) based on its Qplus embedded Linux
| distro. Korea-based Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute's
| (ETRI's) "Mobile Convergence Communicator" (MCC) boasts 802.11b/g and 3.5G
| cellular networking, along with digital TV reception and Bluetooth.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4809169576.html
Why is everybody just tracking the desktop anyway? Also new:
Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html
Four billion. 4,000,000,000. Who cares about the desktop?
Related:
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
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| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles,
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs
Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market
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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use
| there.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q
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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