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Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port

Applications created for Nokia's N900 smartphone will be easier to port to future versions of the company's Maemo Linux operating system as well as to Symbian and Windows Mobile, after Nokia officially ported its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5. Qt, ...

From DAVID MEYER, LXer,  12 Oct 2009

Intel talks Linux, netbooks and rivalry with ARM

newsmaker Imad Sousou is the director of Intel's Open Source Technology Centre, which is behind the Moblin project aimed at providing optimized Linux technology for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet UK caught up with ...

From DAVID MEYER, LXer,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Intel,  Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Qualcomm

UK government open source guidelines ignored, says Ingres

The public sector is ignoring government guidelines on procuring open-source software, according to open source database company Ingres. At a roundtable event on Thursday, Ingres worldwide operations chief Steve Shine praised the guidelines--issued in ...

From DAVID MEYER, LXer,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Tom Watson,  Cabinet Office

Intel to pitch in on developing Chrome

Intel will work with Google on the development of its Linux-based Chrome operating system for netbooks, the chipmaker's open-source technology chief has said. Imad Sousou, who is in charge of the Moblin mobile Linux project, told ZDNet Asia's sister ...

From DAVID MEYER, LXer,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Novell, Inc.

Google switches on Apps Script

Google Apps Script automates processes such as sending e-mails regarding spreadsheet data. Google officially rolled out its Apps Script functionality for enterprise users Wednesday, following a limited pilot release earlier this year. Google Apps ...

From DAVID MEYER, Webware,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Google links Apps to Groups for quicker sharing

Google has linked its online applications suite with its Groups service, making it possible to share documents, sites, and calendars among defined groups of people. Before the new functionality was launched Monday, Google Apps users wanting to share ...

From DAVID MEYER, Webware,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud

Penguin Computing, a company that provides high-performance computing resources to researchers, scientists and engineers, has begun offering its services in the cloud. Penguin On Demand (POD) became available on Tuesday. The company said the service is ...

From DAVID MEYER, LXer,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Cambridge University

BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot

BT is to begin its first brownfield pilot of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in the Highams Park area of north-east London. Previously, the IT and telecommunications giant tested a greenfield deployment FTTH at the new Ebbsfleet development in Kent, but the ...

From DAVID MEYER, Silicon.com,  7 Aug 2009

Future BlackBerrys to pack hybrid touchscreens?

BlackBerry maker RIM has applied for a patent on a hybrid resistive-capacitive touchscreen. The company's patent application, published at the end of July, describes a fusion between the two main types of touchscreen currently on the market. Resistive ...

From DAVID MEYER, Silicon.com,  7 Aug 2009

UK business PC sales drop by 25 per cent

UK sales of professional desktop and mobile PCs fell in the second quarter by more than 25 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to analysts at Gartner. Consumer PC sales across Europe would have dropped much more sharply were it ...

From DAVID MEYER, Silicon.com,  7 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

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