Will Google Android Eclipse Ubuntu Mobile?
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| Intel and Canonical (Ubuntu’s backer) have been working together for several
| months on MIDs. Our sister site, All About Ubuntu, speculates that
| Ubuntu-based MIDs will reach store shelves by the end of 2008 or early 2009.
|
| On the flip side, bloggers and developers continue to hype Google Android, an
| open source platform designed to run on a multitude of smart phones. Even The
| VAR Guy has openly wondered if Android could become a runaway hit.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/04/08/will-google-android-eclipse-ubuntu-mobile/
Ubuntu Mobile and Moblin: just the facts
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| Dan shares a bit of his newfound knowledge and there's definitely some facts
| that I wasn't aware of. Things like:
|
| * Moblin isn't an operating system or a Linux distro; it's a project.
| * Ubuntu Mobile is built with Hildon and Gecko.
| * Both initiatives have some some Intel backing or sponsorship
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http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/04/ubuntu-mobile-a.html
Related:
Intel launches mobile Linux initiative
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| Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source
| software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI
| framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation
| tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists,
| and an IRC channel.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9302797289.html
Linux to gain "multi-touch" capabilities
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| Apple's iPhone uses multi-touch to enable "gestures" such as squeezing
| fingers together to reduce the zoom level. The device could help increase
| awareness of multi-touch technology, even though its multi-touch technology
| is not very advanced, Hutterer suggests.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3106249460.html
Android phones as early as this fall?
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| A Google executive may have inadvertently tipped the wireless industry's hand
| on the launch time frame for Android phones.
|
| [...]
|
| The report also said that Samsung was racing with HTC to get an Android phone
| out the door, meaning perhaps other handset makers have accelerated their
| plans.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9901954-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
iPhone's biggest competition might be the ASUS EeePC
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| There are a certain percentage of people out there who may be happy using
| Skype on the EeePC's WiFi or 3G and having a Linux/Firefox browsing
| experience on a seven-inch display instead of the iPhone's three inches -
| with a real keyboard and trackpad to boot. You can even turn the EeePC into a
| little mobile 3G-Wifi bridge/router to share the wireless network with
| friends and colleagues with full sized laptops.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/iphones_biggest_competition_eee_pc_asus
Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone
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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling. "Once you have devices
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said. "[T]here's a
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone
iPhone vs. Android : An Open Source Devs Perspective
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| According to Andrea Gazzaniga, software development manager at mobile open
| source vendor Funambol the answer is not entirely clear. In a rambling
| overflow presentation at AjaxWorld's iPhone Sumitt, Gazzaniga attempted to
| outline the differences and similiaraties between iPhone and Android.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/iphone-vs-android-an-open-sour.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
|
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
HTC tight-lipped about Google phone
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| MOBILE PHONE MAKER High Tech Computer (HTC) is developing a handset which
| will run Android software developed by Google and a consortium of other tech
| companies.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/20/paranoid-andriod
A third of all phones "smart" in five years
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| ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw said, "The market is currently
| dominated by Nokia (52 percent) and Symbian (65 percent). However, the
| coalescence of the framework wars in the Linux environment and the growing
| stature of Windows Mobile will enable new competitors to put pressure on this
| established axis."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8051784786.html
Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market
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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use
| there.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q
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