During the HP TouchPad firesale, some purchased TouchPads were found to be running a test build of Android. At the time, HP didn’t offer much explanation regarding how these TouchPads got out into the wild running Android, and the story eventually faded away.
However, today…
Ahead of the official launch date for the Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T, Samsung has open sourced the kernel source code and other related code for the device.
While this likely won’t mean much to the average user, it does mean that once the Galaxy…
Just a few days ago we reported on a 7-inch, Linux-based tablet called the Spark that would be available “soon” at a decent price of $265 USD. More details have been released about the hardware and software the device will be running, as well as…
The 7-inch tablet space is heating up this year, with the Amazon Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (a slight stretch in the size requirements, but close enough), and the Barnes and Noble NOOK Tablet at the front of the pack. Are you interested in…
Tizen has been getting a bit of press this month over a possible merger with Samsung’s Bada Operating system. If you’re not familiar with Bada, it’s not actually an operating system, it’s actually middleware. Bada is an application framework that previously ran on Nucleus (Nucleus…
It’s been around a month and a half since HP made the surprising decision to open source webOS. And it has only been about a week since Bill Veghte was appointed chief strategy officer, one of his responsibilities being overseeing the initiative to open source…
Last week Samsung revealed plans to merge Bada and Tizen, this week they are taking it back stating that the plans are not yet official. According to a statement issued to AllThingsD things aren’t set in stone and they are singing the same tune they…
Samsung has reveled plans to Merge its Bada operating system with Intel’s Tizen, formerly known as MeeGo, open source project. There was talk last year that Samsung would open source Bada however Samsung had been very vocal that there were no plans to merge the…
I recently returned home for Christmas to complaints from my mother that her Android handset, the Galaxy S, wouldn’t even last the day. Now she’s far from being a tech savy woman so i knew that heavy surfing wasn’t the cause of her battery woes. …
Finally. After months and months of being in limbo, HP has made a decision regarding webOS: they will contribute webOS to the open source community, and remain active in development and support of the mobile OS.
From the HP press release:
“webOS is the only …
Google has promised that unlike Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich will be open-sourced. While they have been forthcoming about many of the upcoming features in Ice Cream Sandwich, they haven’t yet let loose a date when the source code would become available. If Notion Ink‘s CEO,…
According to an early report from ZDNet, Shuttleworth will announce plans to bring Ubuntu to smartphones and tablet computing devices. The company says that it has been discussing the plan with hardware partners for the past 18 months. The Ubuntu Developer Summit, takes place next…
There’s no doubt that Google’s deal to buy Motorola Mobility has gotten Google’s Android partners worried. Following news of the deal, many rumors cropped up hypothesizing what companies like HTC and Samsung would do in response to the possibility that Motorola Mobility would get time-to-market…
While reporting from IFA 2011, it seems that Sascha Pallenberg of Netbooknews.de has come upon some interesting news: Samsung may take over MeeGo development now that Intel seems unwilling to continue developing MeeGo due to lack of hardware manufacturer interest.
Right now there isn’t much…
MeeGo Conference 2011 is a collaboration of technology design and product placement used with the Linux technology adapting the MeeGoo operating system.
After Day one of the MeeGo Conference 2011 keynote, Nicole took a look inside the MeeGo conference area were all the new tools,…
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