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Ultra-cheap Linux portable targets developing nations
News The Simputer will be powered by Linux, and have an easy-to-use interface comprising mainly icons and graphics on its high-resolution 240 x 320-pixel touch screen. However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the...
[January 11, 2002, 12:19]
Nokia developing next-gen Linux tablet
News After the success of its original Linux tablet, the 770, Nokia is already looking at the next generation of internet-only devices. The original tablet device launched last year (see our review here) and caught the attention of gadget fans wondering...
[June 22, 2006, 9:10]
Palm touts stability of Linux-based Treos
News Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, the company's chief executive, Ed Colligan, revealed on Tuesday. We have been developing a set of system software that we will roll out before the end of the year that will...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
Red Hat reaches out with Fedora
News Two years after its first attempt fell short, Red Hat is trying again to reach beyond its own employees for help developing its Linux line. In 2003, the company launched Fedora, a free Linux package. Whitebox Linux got started shortly after the...
[January 17, 2005, 15:35]
Linux heads for mobile phones
News Half a dozen companies are developing mobile phones based on the Linux operating system, an executive familiar with the plans said on Friday. Among the big names backing Linux for mobile phones are chipmaker Texas Instruments and device maker NEC...
[January 13, 2003, 8:55]
Windows 'cheaper than Linux'
News A Microsoft-commissioned study has found that companies could save up to 28 percent by developing certain programs with Windows instead of Linux, the software company plans to announce on Tuesday. Giga examined the costs of creating a portal using...
[September 9, 2003, 8:45]
Nokia sends Linux tablet to market
News At the same time, the Finnish company pledged not to bring patent infringement lawsuits against those developing or using Linux. Nokia has started selling the 770, a pocket-size, Linux-powered gadget for surfing the Web.
[November 8, 2005, 14:30]
OSDL lays out Linux guidelines
News OSDL said it plans to create a DCL requirements document based on the guidelines to be used in developing a public reference for Linux distributions, business users, and developers of the Linux kernel -- the heart of the operating system.
[February 6, 2004, 7:40]
IBM to help Brazil along open-source path
News Linux can play a fundamental role in the economic development strategy of developing countries such as Brazil," Rogerio Oliveira, president of IBM Brazil, said in a statement. IBM is teaming up with the government of Brazil to develop the country's...
[October 13, 2003, 14:55]
How does UnitedLinux stack up against Red Hat?
News An impressive and potentially profitable undertaking, UnitedLinux seeks to take the chaos and pain out of developing software for multiple Linux distributions. Although most Linux distributions make use of a common kernel, significant patches and...
[January 14, 2003, 14:58]
OSDL boss hints at Microsoft collaboration
News Microsoft software designed specifically to run on open source platforms such as Linux could be closer to reality than previously thought, according to comments made by the head of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) on Monday.
[July 11, 2005, 18:15]
Chip makers cozy up to Linux
News Among the companies expected to deliver betas are Microsoft, The Trillian Project, the Project Monterey team, consisting of IBM and SCO, HP, which, in addition to working with The Trillian Project on Linux, also is developing a version of HP-UX...
[June 13, 2000, 15:05]
Negroponte: 'Software is too fat'
News The One Laptop Per Child project, which plans to provide affordable laptops to millions of children in developing countries, is tailoring Linux for the project to allow it to run on a lower-specification machine.
[April 4, 2006, 16:10]
Lotus founder preps open source Outlook alternative
News Kapor envisions the software that comes out of OSAF developing a grassroots following similar to Linux, the open-source operating system that now rivals Microsoft Windows. An early version of the software, which will run on the Windows, Mac OS X...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
CIOs express caution over Linux
News Coby's comments echo recent research -- conducted by Giga research and paid for by Microsoft -- that showed companies could save up to 28 percent by developing certain programs with Windows instead of Linux,
[October 8, 2003, 15:01]
Exclusive: SuSE Linux goes handheld
News Established manufacturers including Compaq, HP and IBM are, however, reported to be developing hardware designed to run lightweight versions of Linux. By contrast to most other leading Linux distributors, SuSE has so far held back from developing...
[January 4, 2001, 6:49]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News Institute of Technology launched a project to build low-cost Linux-based laptops for the developing world. National government agencies using Linux include the Now it's part of the WTO, China must replace unlicensed copies of Microsoft software...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
News Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, wasn't impressed with Microsoft's latest weapon against Linux. Interoperability appears to be Microsoft's latest weapon against Linux. Two weeks ago Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy at...
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
Microsoft mulls 'Big Mac' pricing index
News However, that effort has come under increased pressure as countries explore Linux as a lower-cost alternative for the government and for populations as a whole. The British government recently said in a report that it has saved millions of pounds...
[March 1, 2004, 8:15]
IBM releases source code of speech software
News Olaf Schmidt, a developer on the KDE Accessibility Project, which develops accessibility applications for the Linux desktop, told ZDNet UK that the components that IBM has released are useful for developing Web applications, but will not help with...
[September 27, 2004, 13:08]
