VoIP beta supports Java-enabled phones
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| Proprietary VoIP software provider Skype is beta-testing a Java version of
| its flagship soft-phone. The company says its new "Mobile Skype" client will
| be available "soon" on Linux- and Java-based models from Motorola, including
| the Razr2 V8 and MotoRokr Z6.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2959432550.html
Linux up to speed on mobile devices
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| More importantly, it looks increasingly likely that mobile Linux solutions
| will be an important building block in enabling an application domain that
| embraces Web-based applications and blended Web/native applications.
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http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=9599EE8D-17A4-0F78-3176AC923D855FDB
Recent:
Microsoft Worried Over Linux Dominance In Embedded Space
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| Renames its family of products to target the embedded market.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26010/news.htm
Who's afraid of embedded Linux? Microsoft
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| ...Microsoft is fighting a losing battle here. It's like gravity.
| Eventually you just stop fighting and learn to accept it. Even Microsoft.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919632-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Linux still top embedded OS
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| In a new whitepaper on Linux in the embedded market, VDC researchers cite the
| following reasons for Linux's popularity:
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| * Licensing cost advantages
| * Flexibility of source code access
| * General familiarity
| * Maturing ecosystem of applications and tools
| * Growing developer experience with Linux as an embedded OS
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4920597981.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| 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
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
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