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Android Is Still Headed Beyond Just Smartphones

Earlier this month, when Google announced its Chrome OS and made clear that it is headed for netbooks, the news curbed many of the predictions people were making about the Android operating system's prospects on netbooks. Google officials made clear that they were steering Android toward smartphones. That hasn't stalled all of the efforts to bring Android to platforms other than smartphones, though. As PC World points out, device maker Touch Revolution is working on several types of touch-screen devices based on Android, including a line of cutting-edge remote controls for homes. Meanwhile, Japan's OESF (Open Embedded Software Foundation) continues to push forward with plans to deliver devices running Android as an embedded operating system.


Fashionistas, Design and Early Open Source Smartphones

Today, JKOnTheRun notes that HTC--the first hardware maker to back the open source Android operating system--may be putting Android on over 50 percent of its future phones. If true this is a big blow to Windows Mobile, the platform on the major portion of HTC?s lineup for some time, they conclude. I have to agree, and this is yet another example of Android's pronounced momentum in the smartphone market, where we're going to see large waves of Android handsets arrive this year and next. Android is shaping up to be a hugely influential open source platform.? For Android phones to really get competitive with the iPhone, though, the cool factor matters. This is much more important than it may seem at first glance.


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Wikipedia pushes for Ogg Theora. Wikipedia?s move to support Ogg Theora for video uploads may be the last chance to break the proprietary video monopoly.

Amazon shows need for open eBook standards. The company violated the privacy of Kindle users when it remotely deleted copies of Orwell?s 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle Readers.

An open alternative for Palm Pre iTunes users. How about the KDE Amarok 2 media player?

Open source and social media: community, collaboration, freedom. Open source is the natural platform for fast-evolving social media and social networking.

Whom does the Google Chrome OS really threaten? Could the real targets be you and your privacy?



8 Good Resources for Google Chrome, Including Alternative Versions

Google's open source Chrome browser is steadily maturing and heading for true cross-platform status as Mac OS X and Linux versions progress. Google has confirmed that many extensions are coming for it and put up instructions for extension developers. Meanwhile, it remains among the fastest of all browsers. If you're running Chrome, here is our updated collection of eight resources for customizing it, getting the most out of it, and even benefiting from alternative versions.


Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Chrome OS, Speed and Ads

GigaOm has a good report up on Google's quarterly earnings call, where CEO Eric Schmidt talks extensively about plans for Chrome OS, the company's upcoming open source operating system aimed at netbooks. As we discussed here, steering people toward Google's advertising network is a primary goal Google has for Chrome OS, and Schmidt directly confirms that. He also talks about speed as a focus: Our primary focus for that product will be speed ? in particular speed of boot and speed of computation, and seamless use of all the web services that are the promise of cloud computing. Check out more of his comments here.?


Chrome OS, Android, and Other Trends Boost Open Source Jobs

Last week, in a post called Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator, I provided a chart showing rapid growth in jobs available for people with open source skills for platforms such as Drupal and Joomla. The trend is up while the economy is down. We've done several other posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. That's why Glyn Moody's post today, Will Chrome OS Burnish the Open Source Jobs Market? caught my eye. He makes a number of good points, and the trend he points to is likely to spread out with several beneficial results.?


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There will be three updates to Android by the end of the year. They're all named after desserts.

Chrome OS proves Google can hype, but can it win? It used to be that only Microsoft could pre-announce a product to mass hysteria, then under-deliver for the first few iterations.

Google and open source finally kill Clippy. Microsoft is selling Office 2010 as an action flick whose first scene is at the graveside of Clippy, the paperclip help icon.

Five ways to help secure Apache on Linux. Apache is one of the most popular web servers available, and it's easier to secure than you may think.

6 reasons to license software under the GPL. Programmers are plagiarists.



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Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? What does a Linux company, which Oracle is, want to do with its newly purchased Sun operating system?

Google releases open source NX server. Amid the fanfare of the Chrome OS announcement, Google quietly released an open source NX server, dubbed Neatx, for remote desktop display.

HP releases $500 Linux netbook onto Aussie market. This week sees the Australian launch of the Mini 110, which HP is offering with both Ubuntu and Windows XP.

Free operating systems that aren't Linux. There are other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin.

Chrome, Android have different jobs, Google says. Android has features unique to running mobile devices, and one doesn't replace the other, a Google mobile executive says.



Chrome OS, the Wall of Windows Apps, and Google's Stance Toward Microsoft

In response to my post Does Chrome OS Have a Fighting Chance?, where I discussed various things that will and won't work in Google's favor as it delivers an open source operating system targeted at netbooks, a reader, in the comments, served up this pithy but thought-provoking conclusion: It stands little chance unless Google finds a way to natively run familiar Windows apps. ?

In my post, I pointed out that users won't just adopt cloud-based applications in droves, abandoning desktop applications, and I said, application usage doesn't shift entirely overnight. Still, the reader comment focuses specifically on Windows applications, and is one of many thoughts appearing online concerning Google's precise stance toward Microsoft. What is that exact stance?



Hardware Partners Rally Behind Chrome OS, But Not Intel

Following Google's announcement of its Chrome OS, which will arrive in late 2010 and is headed for netbooks, most reactions around the web are positive. There are some who say it has an ice cube's chance in Hell of succeeding, some who say it could be a geeks-only phenomenon, and we've provided our assessment of the mixed chances that Chrome OS has. There's no question that it is attracting interest from hardware developers and others, though. As a blog post from Google and IDG News Service report, Hewlett-Packard (the number one PC maker), Acer and Asus--all big players in the netbook arena--are among early Chrome OS partners.?


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