When Canonical officially announced Ubuntu for phones just a few weeks ago, it demonstrated an attractive interface but was otherwise light on specifics regarding the hardware, carriers, or apps that might be involved in actual devices. A ...
Mozilla announced this week that it had launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator ...
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Mozilla has launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator TelefA3nica and Geeksphone, ...
In the next 12 months, smartphones with five new operating systems are scheduled to go on sale, leaning on Web technologies and improved user interfaces to try and make a dent in the dominance of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In two ...
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CES attendees took to the FCC's plan for more Wi-Fi spectrum,which was announced at the show on Wednesday,like hungry gamblers to a buffet. "At this current conference,I would love more Wi-Fi,"said Ellen Arnold,a product strategy program ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Linux operating system vendor Canonical has unveiled a mobile version of its Ubuntu operating system which, it says, will be available from 2014. Ubuntu for Phones is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Unity user interface that ...
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PC World-We've known for some time that a"pure GNOME"version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works,and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10"Quantal Quetzal,"the first GNOME Remix of the software has now made its debut as well. "The ...
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Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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Network World-Canonical QA coordinator Nicholas Skaggs announced that the company's popular Linux-based operating system,Ubuntu,would be moving to a substantially different release schedule. MORE LINUX:Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the ...
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After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its usage, for the time being, has been limited to five or fewer users, however. "ALM has ...
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Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
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Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
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Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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Canonical has released both the server and desktop editions of 12.10 Ubuntu, which offers a glimpse of how this Linux distribution will evolve in the next few years. Ubuntu 12.10 "effectively sets out the future direction of how Ubuntu ...
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