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8 Free, Open Source Tools for a Better Digital Music Experience

Sure the world of digital music is loaded with copyright sharks, DRM and other undesirables, but it's also increasingly teeming with cool, free open source tools and applications. Do you want to sync iPods and iPhones to any computer anywhere? How about playing Doom on your own customized OS for iPods or most other music players? Do you need customized music library management for multiple platforms, including Linux? Would you like to mix and record original music online with other musicians? How about a free, streaming radio application for your phone that will automate interesting playlists for you, and play while you use other apps? Here are eight great resources for doing all of this and more.


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Top 50 Linux alternatives to MS apps. Look for the best apps by category.

7 questions to evaluate SaaS. Software as a Service is on the rise, in and out of the open source arena. Here's a checklist for evaluating SaaS apps.

VMware shows a two-OS tablet. At a conference, executives showed a Nokia N800 running Windows CE and Google Android using virtualization.

Android gathers development steam. Black Duck Software says the iPhone brought on 266 OSS releases during 2008, while Android followed with 191.

Open source for hard times. Nine free open source apps for use while you endure your job hunt.

Your own YouTube. Like Magnify.net, Fliggo lets you deliver your own video community site.?



Android Spreading Out to Netbooks, and E-Ink Devices

Although it is still early enough in development that it may not become a shipping product, Asus has confirmed that it has been developing a netbook based on Google's Android platform. Asus' Eee PC division lead, Samson Hu, told Bloomberg that engineers are working on a possible end-of-year release window. We've written before about Cupcake, a version of Android that is friendly to non-phone devices, and there have already been successful efforts putting Cupcake on netbooks. With netbooks all the rage now, Asus is also very focused on lowering netbook costs, even heading for the $200 range. This latest news is good for both Android and Asus.


Android vs. iPhone: Is an Open Strategy Best?

Consider the different approaches to openness taken by the two companies with (arguably) the greatest product differentiation, most thriving ecosystems and potent cash-flow generation engines in the [mobile arena]: Apple and Google, writes Mark Sigal on GigaOm.? Apple and Google are playing out a classic proprietary vs. open game of tug-of-war with the iPhone and the Android platforms. Sigal argues that the fly in the ointment with Google's Android strategy is that Google has to set limits on what will work with deployments of the Android platform. How much of a problem is that, and how truly open is Android? Check out Sigal's post for more thoughts.


Nokia Gets a Cool $630 Million from Europe to Spend on Symbian

Nokia has just reported that it has received a $630 million loan from the European Investment Bank to help it develop the Symbian operating system and stay relevant in the increasingly competitive mobile operating system war. Looks like Nokia's move last summer to buy out the remaining shares of Symbian for $410 million was more prescient than many people realized. Along with that move, Nokia also put the Symbian operating system on an open source course. Just this week, at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, vendors lined up behind Symbian, LiMo's Linux-based operating system, and Android. $630 million is a lot of money. Will it change Symbian's fate, and how does it affect LiMo and Android?


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Keep an iPod rockin' with Rockbox open source jukebox firmware. Installation is easy, and you can even play Doom.

Mobile World Congress: The good, the bad, the ugly and the boring.

How much of the mobile Internet market will open source get? Vendors at the Mobile World Congress lined up behind Android, LiMo, and Symbian.

Mastering OpenOffice.org Base. Creating basic databases and tables.

The WebGUI 7.6 open source content management system has arrived. It's well-liked for for Intranets and smaller web sites.

Ten tips to reduce open source software risks. Proper security and meticulous inventories are good focus points for enterprises.



Mobile World Congress: Android HTC Magic (G2) Phone Unveiled

Announcements are arriving out of the Mobile World Congress going on in Spain, and one of the big pieces of news is the successor to the T-Mobile G1 Android phone: The HTC Magic (G2). It will be released by Vodafone, and is sleeker and thinner than the G1 phone, which HTC also does the hardware for. The thinness is achieved through the loss of the hardware keyboard, though, and HTC is retaining the G1's proprietary headphone jack. Also, the HTC Magic won't be available in the U.S. initially. It will arrive first in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France and Italy.


Is Google?s Android Going to Power the New Fourth Screen?

GigaOm reports: We?ve already heard of efforts to port Android to netbooks ? but today it appears another, more important milestone has been reached. Moto Labs says it has succeeded in porting Android to E Ink display screens. E Ink is an electronic paper display technology with a paper-like, high-contrast appearance, ultra-low-power consumption and a thin, light form; Moto Labs has developed a way to marry Android to the E Ink development kit. And while the fruits of this labor won?t show up in a commercial product for some 12-18 months, it?s still big, big news. Check out the complete story.


ARCHOS Adds Android Telephony to Mobile Internet Device

The line between MIDs [Mobile Internet Devices] and smartphones will blur as folks don?t want to carry both a phone and Internet browsing device, reports JKOnTheRun. That?s precisely where ARCHOS is heading with their newest IMT, or Internet Media Tablet. The company is combining the MID expertise from its 5 and 7 lines of devices with an Android telephony stack. The new device will have a high-res 5-inch display capable of full-width page viewing, TV recording and HD playback, and up to 500GB of storage. ARCHOS has a lot of loyal customers who like its devices for portable video, and adding telephony looks like a smart move. Check out more from JKOnTheRun.


Broadcom Delivers Combo Wireless Functions Within Android

It looks like Android-based phones are going to become more competitive with other smartphones on a very important front: diversified wireless capabilities on combo chips. Broadcom announced today that the software that controls its leading Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM combination chips is standard in the latest Android operating system. Android handsets already support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi but only through discrete components, which means, among other things, that handset designs have included compromises and extra costs for buyers.


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