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Netbooks: Up from Phones, Not Down from Notebooks
Last week I began a discussion of whether Linux will survive as an OS for netbooks. I received a number of comments, some highlighting which netbook OEMs favored which Linux distros, other despairing...
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The Path to a Linux Netbook Comeback – Look to Google Android
Last week, I made a case for rethinking the role of Linux in mobile computing all together – eschewing the endless game of catchup inherent in the desktop/notebook market (as it applies to increasingly...
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Intel to Acquire Wind River – Embedded Industry Realignment Coming
I woke up this morning to a train of email from friends and fellow pundits, intrigued and even aghast that Intel had announced its intentions of acquiring embedded industry leader Wind River Systems....
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Google Chrome and Android – Why not AndroChrome?
Last week’s buzz over Google’s announcement of its Chrome desktop (and presumably notetop) OS led me and my readers to ask why the Silicon Valley behemoth needs two mobile OSes. If device OEMs are...
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Android Beyond Mobile. Way Beyond.
I recently published an article entitled “Android Beyond Mobile” in the venerable RTC Magazine, a war horse technical publication focused on real-time and embedded computing: Originally a niche...
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Cavium Acquires MontaVista – Embedded Linux Consolidation Continues
Yesterday semiconductor supplier Cavium Networks announced its plans to acquire embedded Linux pioneer MontaVista Software. MontaVista, founded in 1999 by Jim Ready (of Ready Systems / VRTX reknown)...
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Will Android Drive Mobile Commodization?
Little Androids, On the Hillside . . . Yesterday, my friend and fellow analyst Andreas Constantinou of VisionMobile delivered an excellent guest blog for mobile virtualization supplier OK Labs. In his...
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Linaro – Open Source Glue
Last week ARM Ltd. and its licensees Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI, along with IBM, launched Linaro, a new organization to “foster innovation in the Linux® community through a common...
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Mass Market Smartphone – The Five Cent Cigar
Thomas Marshall, U.S. vice-president to Woodrow Wilson, once said “What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar”. Now, as then, the world is facing a range of economic woes. And like...
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Open Source Delivers: MWC OSS Report
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS OPEN SOURCE REPORT Excerpt from my OSD blog post: Every year the movers and shakers of the mobile/wireless industry converge upon the industry’s mecca, the Mobile World Congress...
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