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Panasonic and NEC announce new open source LiMo phones

Crave Panasonic and NEC announced nine new cell phones on Tuesday that use the open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system called LiMo. As the mobile phone market evolves, software is becoming more crucial ... Read story »

Symbian's first open-source software released

Crave The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organization's plan to eventually open-source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian Foundation was set ... Read story »

An Android SmartQ 5 MID

Crave When we reviewed the original SmartQ 5 MID, the excitement of handling what was one of the cheapest MIDs in the market was hampered by a sucky operating system that ... Read story »

oFono, mobile open source project

Crave High-level architecture for oFono. This went under the radar last week, but what's worth noting is that the Maemo Software team from Nokia and the Open Source Technology Center from Intel ... Read story »

First phone to come with Google Android 2.0 arrives

Crave Initial response to the new Motorola Droid smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network have been very good, thanks in large part to the updated Android 2.0 operating system. The new updated ... Read story »

Acer claims it'll be out first with Chrome OS Netbook

Crave Chrome OS will be coming to Netbooks next year. Acer says it will be first. The world's second-largest PC maker has designs on being the first to offer a Chrome ... Read story »

Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux

Crave Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, said: "The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source." On his right is graduate student ... Read story »

Dell experiments with Chrome OS on its Netbook

Crave Dell has released an experimental version of Google's Chrome OS adapted for its own Mini 10v Netbook. Dell's Mini 10v Netbook Earlier this month, Google released the source code underlying ... Read story »

Smartphone king Symbian ready to strike back

Features Apple gets all the attention for its iPhone. So what's Symbian, the leader in mobile operating systems, to do? Executive David Wood lays out the plan. Read story »

PS3 the new crime-busting tool

Crave The PlayStation 3 has been used for a variety of altruistic tasks following its launch in 2006. Perhaps the most high-profile of these ventures is the Folding@home project, which uses spare ... Read story »

IDF 2009: Of MID phones and Moblin 2.1

Crave Moblin 2.1 unwrapped. SAN FRANCISCO--In what was a cool demonstration during Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), a prototype MID (mobile Internet device) was ... Read story »

Do we really need a Nokia mini-notebook?

Features Nokia's foray into the Netbook market marks another milestone as the phone maker branches into the PC segment. Read story »

Google Chrome OS on Chinese Netbook next month?

Blogs Google announced their plans to make an operating system for computers earlier this summer, and its eagerly awaited release date is 'sometime in 2010'. But a Chinese manufacturer might be about to ... Read story »

Snow Leopard incompatibilities listed

Crave Apple's US$29 operating-system upgrade, Snow Leopard, is for most users a straightforward and worthwhile upgrade. But some are regretting their haste in upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Little incompatibilities ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS challenges Windows 7, while Microsoft Gazelle takes on Google Chrome browser

Blogs The fight between Google and Microsoft is heating up after Google announced its intention to enter the OS market via Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, which started as a browser, is now ... Read story »

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