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Google's Open Source Android Phone Will Free the Wireless Web
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| Android would have the spirit of Linux and the reach of Windows. It would be
| a global, open operating system for the wireless future.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/ff_android
Quite an extensive article. Also new and relevant:
Productivity: Mobile phones vs desktop computing
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| If this is right, then the most fundamental thing differentiating the cell
| phone business from the personal computer business hasn’t been technology but
| organizational culture; with the telcos providing central provisioning but
| mostly leaving the user in control of usage, while the PC business moved
| squarely into the data processing camp to combine centralized provisioning
| with centralized usage controls.
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| If so, there would be several important corollaries: first the iPhone and its
| clones could be seen as centrally provisioned but user managed personal
| computers -thus making the technology a real threat to everything the PC
| industry stands for; and, secondly: the implication is that the right answer
| for anyone seeking IT productivity might be to simply roll back centralized
| control and empower users instead.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1174
Recent:
Nearly 20% of Mid- and High-End Mobile Devices Will Run a Linux Operating
System by 2013, According to ABI Research
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| Linux, which has been much maligned by Symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter
| in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues
| with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated. The
| growing momentum behind the LiMo Foundation initiative, as well as the
| marketing boost that has been realized from the entry of Google’s Android
| solution has been further enhanced by Nokia’s support of the Maemo solution
| and its purchase of Trolltech. ABI Research believes that by 2013, nearly one
| out of every five mid- or high-end mobile devices will use a Linux operating
| system.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080421005759&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/53e5s9
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