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We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.
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| I'm tired of waiting- I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web
| tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs
| $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and
| possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072101947.html
Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open Source Internet Tablet
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| He's looking for people to help spec out the hardware and write the custom
| Firefox and Linux code for it. If you help, you'll be handsomely rewarded
| with a first-run edition of the to-be-named device if and when it ever
| becomes a reality.
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http://gizmodo.com/5027519/michael-arrington-wants-help-designing-a-200-open-source-internet-tablet
It's the future, say the pros:
Commercial Mobile Browser Market to Continue Strong Growth, Despite Increased
Interest in Open-Source Mobile Browsers, Says ABI Research
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| As consumers increasingly surf the Web on their mobile phones, handset
| vendors are looking toward open-source browsers such as WebKit...
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commercial-mobile-browser-market-continue/story.aspx?guid=%7B18263783-7F1A-415F-834B-B3A784B7B31B%7D&dist=hppr
http://tinyurl.com/68ky52
Recent:
CyberLink Sees Opportunities in Netbooks, Linux
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| Multimedia software maker CyberLink sees a lot of opportunities in the
| fast-growing netbook segment of the computer market, from online access
| to files stored on home PCs to multimedia software made for Linux OSs.
|
| Some of the most popular netbooks, or mini-laptops, being launched come with
| options for far less storage space than mainstream laptops, such as Asustek's
| Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 901and Acer's Aspire one.
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| Many of them also run on a Linux OS, such as Linpus Linux Lite on the Aspire
| one and Linux OS by Xandros on the Eee PC. These netbooks can also come with
| Windows XP instead.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148475/cyberlink_sees_opportunities_in_netbooks_linux.html
ASUS Eee PC is a good option for a lightweight laptop
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| All told, the Eee PC is a great out-of-the-box Linux laptop for new users.
| With the default Xandros install, everything just works. The boot speeds are
| amazing, and suspend/resume works great.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=239
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
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
Related:
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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