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I'm in love with an eight megapixel Android

Now that's what I call an Android phone. Actually, that's what I call an Android phone that might just kick some iPhone ass. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 social networking phone is Android powered and feature rich. How rich? Well, how does 1GB RAM ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sony,  Qualcomm,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Google makes promise it cannot keep

So Google reckons that it can provide the perfect operating system in Chrome, even to the point where according to Google's Engineering Director, Linus Upson, it will herald the end of malware. That's what he went on the record to say, promising that ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  26 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Aspire ONE Android confirmed!

The Google Android OS is coming to the Acer Aspire ONE netbook, and sooner than you might imagine. As a happy ONE owner myself, and a keen observer of all things Android, the news that it could be as soon as Q3 this year really pleases me. Jim Wong, ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  2 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Intel

Windows 7 free and legal until 2010

Some people like to get their free Microsoft products by adopting the eye patch and a parrot approach via sites such as The Pirate Bay. Some of us, however, rather like the idea of getting Windows 7 totally free, totally legally, and direct from ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  3 May 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Can XP save Windows 7?

So now we know that Microsoft is pushing out the release version of the latest in the operating system line-up, Windows 7, starting this week on the 30th April according to official sources. However, we also know from various news reports that many ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  26 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Linux iPlayer floats on air

A public beta has started for the latest version of the BBC iPlayer desktop download manager which supports Linux, Mac and Windows. This represents a huge, and hugely overdue, move forward for the BBC which previously only allowed Windows users to ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  19 Dec 2008
Related Topics: BBC

Sony Ericsson and Vodafone get the Android bug

The Android Open Source Project continues to go from strength to strength as the Open Handset Alliance announces a batch of new members. Amongst the 14 new companies to sign up and demonstrate support for Android as an open mobile platform, are Sony ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  10 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Sony,  Atheros Communications, Inc.,  Garmin Ltd.

Open source 3D printer will copy itself

Those clever boffins at the University of Bath, England have managed to develop a machine called RepRap which can, effectively, replicate itself. The boffins themselves describe it as being a 3D printer which can print, or rather produce, real ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  21 Jun 2008

Firefox privacy button a crash waiting to happen

Not my sentiment but that of Johnathan Nightingale, the Firefox security interface designer no less who has gone on record as saying that "we didn't want to put in something that was half baked" when talking about how the privacy button might interact ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  16 Jun 2008

Red Hat trounces Microsoft in server operating system stakes

Channel Insider has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has beaten off the competition in the 2008 Product of the Year awards to scoop the server operating system award. This is important for two reasons: firstly the fact that awards are given to ...

From BILL ANDAD, LXer,  4 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Red Hat, Inc.,  Novell, Inc.

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