The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
Tags: Smartphone Market, Android-iOS
The Ubuntu Edge, a "superphone" in the making, seeks to raise $32 Million on Indiegogo by August 22 to fund a full-scale production of a smartphone that can also run your PC. Is this a lofty goal, or a reachable possibility? Within the ...
Tags: Superphone, Consumer Electronics
USERS of Linux who subscribe to the online forums of popular strain Ubuntu have been urged to change their passwords after hackers stole up to 1.82 million user names and passwords. This especially applies to Linux users who use the ...
Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first ...
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Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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TelefA3nica will be the first to offer a commercial smartphone based on Firefox OS. The Spanish operator will start selling the ZTE Open on Tuesday for a!69 (US$90) with a prepaid subscription. Firefox OS is built around applications ...
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Internet giant Google is to enter "the battle for the living room" with its own games console based on Android, which will connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to Google Glass, smart watches and other wireless devices. The aim of the ...
Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
Tags: Developers, Firefox OS, Smartphone
Fairphone has received enough orders to start production on what it says is a smartphone that will be built according to ethical standards, designed and produced with minimal harm to people and the planet. The Amsterdam-based company ...
Tags: Fairphone, Smartphone
Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution. ...
Tags: Ubuntu, Bug#1 Report
Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen. The device integrates the company's unique back covers with the software, allowing the look to change and new features to be ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Jolla, Smartphone
Fresh off the?acquisition?of a company that specialises in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on?OpenStack. Dell has said for the last ...
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The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said. "Sony is known for quality and user ...
SATO America Inc., a pioneer in thermal barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, announces the first-ever Linux and Mac OS X drivers developed for use with its thermal printers. Extending the compatibility to include additional ...
Tags: Textile World, Textile
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released ...