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When Oracle acquired Sun, the database giant also acquired the Java technology that was Sun's lifeblood. Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison called Java the most important technology Oracle has ever acquired. With ownership and leadership come responsibility. Java's future is now in Oracle's hands. This eWEEK slide show presents 15 ways Oracle can improve Java and boost its position in the Java community.
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Google has cut a fee charged to users who cease using its Nexus One smartphone before four months from $350 to $150. The move comes in the wake of a broad probe into ETFs by the Federal Communications Commission, which Jan. 26 sent letters to AT&T, Google, Sprint and T-Mobile asking how ETFs are charged and if consumers are adequately informed of the ETFs. Spotty 3G is one reason Nexus One users might cite as reason to void their contracts with Google and T-Mobile. To help mediate the 3G service and other complaints, Google expanded its service for the Nexus One to include phone support: 888-48-NEXUS (63987) is now live from Google.
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News Analysis: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone.
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Linus Torvalds, the man who created the Linux operating system on which Android is based, said he likes using the Google Nexus One smartphone for its Google Maps Navigation turn-by-turn GPS software. Torvalds said he "generally hates phones because they are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever," but is intrigued by Linux-based phones. The Google navigation Torvalds enjoys is the Google Maps Navigation turn-by-turn GPS feature so many users have found useful since it launched on the Motorola Droid in November.
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The CodePlex Foundation announces the appointment of Paula Hunter to the position of executive director of the open-source organization. And Canonical hires a new chief operating officer.
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The Mono Project releases the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving application developers a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform.
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HP EliteBook 8440w hits 14" mark with powerful combination of processor and management extras including power reporting along with quick access to the web and Outlook without full machine boot up.
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HP EliteBook 8440w enters the bantam-weight mobile workstation fray loaded with management extras but an unremarkable 14-inch display.
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A week after closing its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun, Oracle officials have shut down Darkstar, a 10-year-old Sun Labs project designed to create the back-end infrastructure for massively multiplayer online games. The shutting down of Darkstar was announced on the project’s community site, though because it is open source, some were hopeful that the project could find a home elsewhere.
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Smartphones including the Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid, as well as laptops and MP3 players, such as the Apple iPod nano, are helping to drive the MEMs microphone market, which aids in active noise cancellation technology and helps with features such as voice commands.
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The Symbian Foundation has announced its completion of the open-sourcing of the Symbian Platform with the release of Symbian 3.
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The Motorola Devour smartphone, running Google’s Android 1.6, will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network in March, making it Verizon’s first phone with Motorola’s MotoBlur social software.
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As predicted, Facebook has delivered a new PHP platform called HipHop for PHP that much improves performance of the popular scripting language known among application developers for its relative lack in that area.
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Mozilla announces a mobile version of its popular open-source Web browser, Firefox, which is available for the Nokia N900 and N810 smartphones.
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Blogs Brighthand and Engadget have found evidence that the Federal Communications Commission has blessed what could be a version of the Nexus One that runs on AT&T's 3G network. The unknown device supports 3G on WCDMA Bands I, II and V, meaning that it'll work on AT&T's network and most of Europe. The Nexus One could use the additional carrier support. Those who bought the device with T-Mobile service are suffering from spotty 3G service or even prolonged outages and complaints have been overwhelming Google's Nexus One support forum since the phone launched.
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The open-source Wine project is less a solution and more a workaround when it comes to the issue of running Windows applications on Linux.
Novell's OpenSUSE 11.2, which is packed with the latest and greatest of what the open-source software world has to offer, sets itself apart from Linux rivals with its focus on power users. This philosophy makes OpenSUSE more discoverable--but also more confusing--than its peers.
PC Week's (now eWEEK's) birth year—1984—was a busy one for technology. One platform that began to take shape at that time was focused not on hardware or software but on licensing. Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to start the GNU project, an effort to produce a clone of the Unix operating system to be distributed under a license that would ensure users' freedom to run, modify and redistribute the software. The open-source model has since driven much innovation in enterprise technology.
Fedora, Red Hat's leading-edge Linux-based OS, has hit a beta milestone. eWEEK Labs' tests show that Fedora 12 will provide the latest and greatest versions of popular open-source applications, as well as features that strengthen not only Fedora but also Linux distributions in general. In particular, Fedora 12 advances the state of Linux system privilege management on multiple fronts and exhibits continued progress in virtualization.
The beta of Ubuntu 9.10—or Karmic Koala as it's also known—offers the core open-source updates you would expect. But it also provides important enhancements in the areas of disk encryption, tightened system permissions and cloud service integration—all of which combine to make Ubuntu even more attractive as the Linux distro of choice on the desktop.
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