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News Android is a Linux-based operating system that was originally designed for cell phones. Linux-based software, such as Android, is free, while Microsoft charges a hefty licensing fee for the Windows... [01 Apr 2009]
'Android-powered netbooks coming this year'
News According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavours of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop,... [18 Mar 2009]
iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux cause
News Google's open mobile OS platform Android is buoying the fortunes of Linux-powered smartphones. Linux took 8.4 per cent marketshare of smartphone OSes in Q4 08, compared to 7.2 per cent... [13 Mar 2009]
Cupcake sweetens T-Mobile's Android with virtual keyboards
News The update will introduce features such as virtual keyboards and stereo Bluetooth support, as well as an upgrade of the underlying Linux kernel. T-Mobile will push out a major firmware update to users of... [13 Mar 2009]
Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012
News BlackBerry OS, Linux and Windows Mobile are also gaining popularity and eating some of Symbian's lunch, according to Informa. However the analyst believes Symbian's switch to open source will help the... [06 Mar 2009]
BMW, Peugeot put a penguin in the tank with Linux for cars
News The goal of the alliance is to build a Linux stack that will provide a common architecture for automotive infotainment systems. Mobile in pictures Check out silicon.com's latest mobile... [04 Mar 2009]
Ballmer focused on the Apple and Android threats
News On the desktop front, Microsoft is not discounting the approximately one per cent market share gain Apple has garnered in the past year, bolstering its position as the number four player in operating systems behind... [25 Feb 2009]
"Android is not open. It's a marketing label"
News Despite the release of Android's source code last year, Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams claimed the Linux-based Google OS merely wears a big 'open' badge to disguise its underlying 'closed shop' ethos. [23 Feb 2009]
Mozilla exec on the future of handheld Firefox
Comment The results of that work have been made available as an alpha release for Nokia's N800-series of tablets with Maemo mobile Linux. The same is true for Android, so you won't see our... [20 Feb 2009]
Chinese mobile maker gunning for Android
News The company has also considered using Linux from the LiMo Foundation. While the rest of the mobile phone market is contracting amid the global recession, Huawei told Reuters it expects sales to grow.... [17 Feb 2009]
Intel and LG to hook up in Moorestown
News The devices will also use a version of the Linux open-source operating system called Moblin. At the GSMA Mobile World Congress today Intel announced that LG Electronics will use its latest generation... [16 Feb 2009]
Porting of Flashlite Player to Qtopia Phone Editions Under the Linux Environment
White Paper The requirement of the client was to port the standalone version of Flashlite Player to their Linux OS with Qtopia-2.2 phone edition. The Client is a leading provider of software technology for mobile... [10 Feb 2009]
HP netbook ditches Linux
News HP is selling the Mini 1000 Mobile Internet Experience (MIE) edition, which uses a customised version of Ubuntu Linux and is aimed at home-entertainment use, in the US. HP has dropped... [06 Feb 2009]
ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
White Paper Experiment results are presented for the Linux kernel running on an ARM processor based mobile device platform. Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. [02 Feb 2009]
Open source advocates bed down on the cloud
News The Evans Data Open Source/Linux Development survey, published last week, arrived on the heels of a more general Evans Data survey that found higher adoption of cloud services inside the open-source world than outside. [22 Jan 2009]
