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Linux & Open Source Topics Following the Unix trends on Linux operating systems such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and Mandrake as well as software and enterprise level Linux implementations.
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Are Apple and AT&T planning to launch a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S in time for the holidays? This was rumor offered by a popular source. True or not, what does it say about the Motorola Droid — and the growing crop of Apple look-alikes?
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Verizon tried a Times Square promotion for its Droid smartphone on Nov. 6, the same day as the device’s release. Despite the small number of people who turned out for the event, Verizon and Google are hoping that the Android-powered smartphone will attract massive amounts of customers, and justify pre-release advertising that positioned the Droid as a robust competitor to Apple's iPhone. Some early reviews seemed to put both iPhone and Droid on relatively even ground in the capabilities category.
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Verizon Wireless now offers not one but two smartphones featuring Google’s Android: the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. While the move is expected to be a win for all parties, Motorola is most in need of a success.
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Mozilla will introduce a new version of Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail application, in mid-November. Built on the same rendering platform as Firefox 3.1, Thunderbird 3 will include features such as tabbed e-mail, filtered search and a one-click address book.
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While the Motorola Android phone making its debut on Verizon Wireless Nov. 6 is getting all the hype, the carrier is also introducing the HTC Eris, another Android-based phone that will be available for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year customer agreement.
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The Motorola Droid is more of a “killer phone” than an iPhone killer, according to The New York Times’ David Pogue and the Wall Street Journal’s Walter S. Mossberg. The Android-running phone will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network Nov. 6.
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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.
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Microsoft may have helped its status with the open-source community by reiterating its pledge to deliver $100,000 to the Apache Software Foundation over the next few years.
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Google makes its Google Wave Federation Protocol available to let would-be Wave providers build their own Wave servers and get them communicating with other Wave servers, similar to the way e-mail servers talk to one another. This federation would ideally pave the way to making Wave ubiquitous, making it more available for future users. But given the learning curve stumping early users of Wave, how many programmers will want to build their own Wave servers? That remains to be seen.
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The Samsung Moment smartphone, now available on the Sprint network, is the struggling carrier’s second new smartphone to feature Google’s Android operating system.
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Spring Design, a small IT startup, claims that Barnes & Noble's Nook infringes on their own Alex e-reader. Both devices claim a dual-screen form-factor, powered by Google Android. The e-reader space has become more competitive in the past few months, with not only Barnes & Noble but a host of smaller startups announcing their own devices, all of them hoping to take market share away from Amazon.com and its line of Kindle e-readers.
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, the company’s first smartphone to run Google’s Android operating system, will arrive in the first quarter of 2010 and usher in a new line of phones that will likewise work to intuitively combine communications and entertainment.
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Yahoo takes its second major step in five months toward open-source cloud computing by introducing an open-source version of Traffic Server, a high-performance application server for builders of cloud services.
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The Motorola Cliq is now available to the general public on the T-Mobile network. To celebrate the Android-running phone's MotoBlur social skills, T-Mobile announces a college-focused Motorola Cliq Challenge. The winning school gets cash plus a free Weezer concert.
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News Analysis: Google's Android platform is a relatively secure operating system. It has a number of features that make it a fine alternative to the iPhone. But it's important for users to understand just how Google built security into the mobile operating system.
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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.
It's been a long, hot summer in the open-source world, particularly in the regions where open source and Microsoft butt up against each other. In the midst of this acrimony, Microsoft has launched the Codeplex Foundation, which is aimed at enabling "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open-source communities." Can the foundation cool things down?
In the wake of analyst Andrew Garcia's Windows 7 64-bit migration woes, Labs' Jason Brooks considers the bumps he's encountered on his own journey to 64-bit on the Ubuntu Linux machines he runs at home and work.
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