Q&A: MontaVista CEO on Google Android
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| Google's forthcoming open-source platform for smartphones, called Android,
| promises to spur the creation and adoption of new mobile-phone applications.
| And many of them will likely run on top of MontaVista, the leading
| Linux-based smartphone operating system. MontaVista chief executive Thomas
| Kelly answers the questions.
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http://www.cbronline.com//article_news.asp?guid=9D5030B7-C48B-46E0-B7D8-E82C61BDA06D
Production begins for schoolkid laptops
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| The initial recipients will be children in Uruguay, Peru and Mongolia. Also,
| beginning Monday, people in North America will be able to buy one for
| themselves and donate the other to a child overseas through
| http://www.laptopgiving.org.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071107/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop
'$100 laptop' begins production
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7082701.stm
Related:
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying
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| It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's
| perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can
| unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133
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