Will Linux Dominate Ultra-Portable Market?
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| The situation is quite different in the world of Linux. There, device makers
| can focus first and foremost on the key applications they want to promote to
| customers. Plus, they can move fast — really fast — by adapting Linux to fit
| their needs, or by playing multiple Linux distributions against one another
| to find a software partner that’s best suited to assist their efforts.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/04/10/will-linux-dominate-ultra-portable-market/
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Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs
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| The desktop PC's days of dominance could be numbered as laptops and
| ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of ever greater, and more
| efficient, computing power.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7178278.stm
WIBRAIN to launch its low priced UMPC 'B1L'
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| WIBRAIN(www.wibrain.co.kr) announced the launch of its entry-level UMPC ‘B1L’
| in Korea market, which runs on Ubuntu Linux as well as supports Microsoft
| Office software.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080225005244&newsLang=en
CES: Intel Embraces Mobile Linux Audio Production
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| Quick: you’ve got to sell UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC’s) to a mass market! How to
| do it? Well, Intel decided to show off pro audio and music production on the
| Linux-based Transmission, from Trinity Audio, as we saw earlier this week.
| I’m not entirely sure what got Intel thinking our geeky way, but I’m going to
| enjoy it while it lasts. And in all seriousness, Linux really an ideal OS
| choice here, because of its ability to be customized to the application.
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| [...]
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| Trinity has sent us some photos of the Intel booth at CES. Yes, Linux audio
| is getting some wider exposure. And even if you’re attached to Mac or Windows
| as your desktop/laptop platform, a mobile Linux device could be an ideal
| companion in the near future. We’ll have a chance to look at Trinity’s own
| device next week at NAMM and see how it stacks up.
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http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/01/11/ces-intel-embraces-mobile-linux-audio-production/
Whatever Happened To The Origami?
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| Ultimately Origami is a classic example of how a viral buzz can
| work against a product release. Expectations were too high and the
| final product was puzzling and didn't fulfill any specific consumer
| demand. By the time the systems were actually released the hype had
| died down and there was practically zero consumer awareness. I've
| actually considered the possibility that the viral Origami campaign
| was a warm-up for the Zune campaign that followed later in the summer.
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http://www.medialoper.com/hot-topics/hardware/whatever-happened-to-the-origami/
UMPC News : New Linux distro for MIDs to be launched in May. Redflag
Mid Linux
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| The new distro will have a 500MB footprint, will support
| power-saving features, boot time is shown as 18 seconds on
| one of the slides.
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http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=480
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?
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| 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
Original 'Origami' team moves to a new secret project
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| This "secret project" could be nothing more than a lot of hype --
| as was the "Origami Project" (which morphed into the
| less-than-well-received Ultramobile PCs).
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=234
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