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RSS mobile LinuxJapanese corporates back consumer Linux
News Over 20 Japanese high-tech firms have formed a consortium to develop a Linux-based operating system (OS) for consumer products. The Japanese consortium is following a trend that has already been established, as... [14 Jul 2000]
News in View: Linux vendors map out future of open source
News Open source vendors claim Linux still has to scale up to the high-end and down to mobile devices before it becomes a significant player in the corporate IT market. In this week's News in View, leading... [13 Jun 2000]
Gateway picks Transmeta ahead of chip giants
News Transmeta will also be providing its Mobile Linux as the operating system for the product range. Gateway has snubbed Intel and AMD and chosen Transmeta to provide the chips for its forthcoming range of... [31 May 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Really free Linux, WAP awareness and the rise of Veritas
Comment You'd think money wouldn't come into it with Linux. Linux has grown rapidly in popularity, particularly as a platform for appliances, computers dedicated to one purpose or sometimes a few related purposes. [30 May 2000]
Netscape 6 to profit from Microsoft woes
News Netscape 6 is designed to be compliant with a whole range of operating systems - in particular Linux - and will support mobile devices and PDAs. One of the companies at the centre of the Microsoft trial,... [04 Apr 2000]
Ericsson picks Inprise/Borland for 3G integration
News Inprise announced plans to merge with Corel earlier this month - a company that is determined to bring the full range of middleware tools to the Linux platform. Ericsson has signed up Inprise/Borland to integrate its... [24 Feb 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile Linux, crazy CEOs and an ASP success story
Comment Mobile Linux is an OS for diskless mobile systems. However, the most interesting aspect of all this is that Linux has now stepped forward into the... [06 Feb 2000]
Samsung plans $200 disposable PC
News It will be interesting to see what operating system Samsung goes with; by default it should be Linux. Collins said the move is part of the overall convergence of laptop, PC, PDA and mobile phone... [03 Feb 2000]
Torvalds' chip venture sets sail
News Transmeta has lifted the lid off its secret microprocessor project, Crusoe, developed with the help of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the backing of financier George Soros. They will also be fully compatible with the... [19 Jan 2000]
Inprise to release open source InterBase
News Inprise has announced it will release an open source version of its SQL database, InterBase, on Linux, Solaris and Windows NT platforms. Commenting on Inprise's decision, Dale Fuller, interim CEO and president of... [04 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: SCO's Tarantella gamble; Nokia's threat to the old world order; and the IT industry gets the business message
Comment With Linux threatening to shred SCO's Unix strategy, the company is looking for a new position. Linux has hardly been out of the news in recent months, with the general conclusion being that the... [12 Dec 1999]
Agenda Setters: McNealy's vision of IT without Microsoft
News This is the dawn of a pretty interesting new era, that enables a whole bunch of new things, like free StarOffice, free Linux, enabling you to move the computer completely out of the office and put it in to the back... [24 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Novell's directory supremacy, CE's struggles, and the problem of Net taxation
Comment It is being beaten time and again by competition from Palm OS, Symbian and Linux. Linux came along, damaging the momentum of Windows 2000. There is also the possibility that Linux will... [21 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Intel and Linux; Orange and WAP; and Team Tandem make a comeback
Comment Intel has announced that it will now enable Gigabit Ethernet performance for Linux on Intel-based servers. It is providing a Linux Gigabit driver, an open source software driver, for its Intel PRO/1000... [01 Nov 1999]
Linus plots road ahead for Linux
News Torvalds called for a deviation from the practice of putting Linux on ever-larger computers and suggested that more time be spent developing for smaller networked devices like mobile phones. Linus... [18 Jun 1999]
