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Smartphone Sales Predicted to Stay Strong, to Become Led By Open Source

Two new market research reports are predicting strong smartphone sales growth going forward, and some researchers are predicting that open source-based smartphones will soon start to trump Apple's iPhone. In-Stat is predicting that the number of mobile application users will quadruple in five years, and that sales of open source-based smartphones will double iPhone sales over the same time period. In-Stat's latest report on the trend, foresees applications moving briskly from mobile application stores such as Apple's and the Android Marketplace.?


Could the Palm Pre's Linux-Based WebOS Be Headed for Netbooks?

There's a lot of hubbub gathering about the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone, which runs WebOS, a Linux-based operating system. JKOnTheRun and Laptop Magazine ?(noted for its exhaustive coverage of netbooks) think it's entirely likely that we'll see WebOS arrive on netbooks. Cupcake, a strain of Google's Android OS (also Linux-based) has already been demonstrated successfully on netbooks--another example of a smartphone OS heading in more than one direction. Could Palm have much more far-reaching plans for WebOS than just smartphones? Check out how its touch-friendly, good looking interface might work well on netbooks.?


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Boxee adds Pandora Radio and hints at the future. The open source media center application's Pandora feature is brilliant, and there's more in a new alpha.

Awesome Tweet: Peter Rojas says Flash coming to Android. The development house BSQUARE has been hired to port Flash to the Android platform.

Shifty answers from Microsoft at OSBC? Some of the company's answers to open source questions sounded like mumbo-jumbo.

Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind. Some people miss OS/2.

Launching a Linux startup: no funny business. Hackett and Bankwell is a series of cartoon manuals that teaches readers how to get started with Linux.

?Sun crams the Internet in a box. Three petabytes of archived web pages.?



Android Apps Maturing: Two Useful New Ones

Today, our buddies at JKOnTheRun note that good applications for Android are starting to show up at a rapid clip. They've covered Palringo, an instant messaging application that handles virtually all major IM services, now in a free version on the Android Market. (It's shown at left.) While it costs $24.95, Wrike's ContactsCalendarSync synchronizes contacts and calendars with Microsoft Exchange servers. The G1 Android phone already handles Exchange mail using IMAP settings. Check out JKOnTheRun's thoughts on these Exchange options.


Developers Using PhoneGap to Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

The skyrocketing success of Apple's App Store and the recent launch for Research In Motion's (RIM) App World for BlackBerry is clear proof that people want third-party apps for their mobile phones. Unfortunately, developers with a brilliant idea for the next blockbuster app typically have to decide which platform to choose before they write their first bit of code -- iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, etc.

The creators of PhoneGap think it's nonsense that developers have to write the same app in several different programming languages to reach the widest swath of mobile phone customers, so they developed an open source, cross-platorm framework that bridges the gaps among them.



Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Subsidized Netbooks, Mobile TV Plans

We've written before about successful efforts to put Google's Linux-based Android operating system on netbooks, and E-Ink devices. Now, according to OSnews, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has backed up the idea that he is closely watching the netbook space, where ?Android-based netbooks are predicted to arrive soon. Schmidt also predicts that netbooks could be subsidized to allow for ultra-low buy-in costs. ?Additionally, Schmidt recently appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS, and discussed Google's plans to enter the mobile TV market. What does all this mean for Android?


Why is Android Stalled?

As predictions stacked up late last year on what would happen with Google's open source Android platform, many observers--including ourselves--saw rosy things ahead. After all, the T-Mobile G1 phone was a relative hit in a mobile tech environment that could seemingly talk about nothing but the iPhone. Android applications have also mostly been slick and useful, with a thriving application marketplace. So why isn't Android showing up on more devices and claiming its rightful place in the mobile tech space? Is Google listening?


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Ubuntu newbie guide. Pre-installation tips, post-installation techniques, and more.

Open source usability: Joomla! vs. WordPress. A head-to-head comparison of content managers.

What Obama could learn from Mozilla. How can we focus our government on policies, not politics? Mozilla has clues.

The coming merger of netbooks and handhelds. With Android moving into netbooks, should we expect synergy between netbooks and handhelds?

Firefox 3.1: Not coming until the second quarter? TraceMonkey tests and fixes still loom. Will it ship with it?