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[News] Linux is Winning Where Microsoft Failed Badly and Gave Up

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Why Amazon Kindle succeeded and Microsoft SPOT did not

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| Sometimes you kind of know a gadget is going to fail, simply because it 
| launches at the wrong time. A great example would be the Microsoft SPOT watch 
| which was essentially an expensive and ungainly data-casting wristwatch that 
| could show very small amounts of news and weather data while you walked. 
| Sounds OK, until you realise that it was launched at the same time as mobile 
| phones were moving into data, as smartphones were appearing, as wifi was 
| taking off.      
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3967.html


Recent:

iRex iLiad e-Reader: Linux's Answer to the Kindle?

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| David Chisnall jumped on the E Ink bandwagon with a Linux-based iRex iLiad.
| After spending a while using the device, he has some interesting perspectives
| to share.
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| A few weeks ago, I bought a new toy. A lot of my work involves reading—mainly
| research papers—and I justified the purchase to myself by saying it was to
| make this task easier. The new toy was an iRex iLiad, one of a new category
| of device that emerged when E Ink hit the commercial market.
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1238478
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