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• 22 April 2010

• News: Intel plans Meego-based laptops and PCs

  Intel is developing an edition of the Linux-based Meego OS that will work on mainstream laptops and desktops, a company executive said this week.

• 01 April 2010

• News: Intel, Nokia give MeeGo OS to developers

  Developers got their first look at MeeGo on Wednesday, with the release of key components of the as-yet unfinished operating system.

• 23 February 2010

• News: Microsoft & Amazon in patent cross-licensing deal

  Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies announced on Monday

• 16 February 2010

• News: Smartbooks to reinvigorate SSD market

  Sandisk today outlined its vision for mobile devices filled with smaller versions of the Nand flash memory hard disk and cited smartbooks as the obvious device in which they will find a home.

• 05 February 2010

• News: X2 launches iTablet for Windows and Linux

  X2 Technology has capitalised on Apple's decision not to call its tablet the iTablet. The X2 iTablet will run Windows or Linux and support Flash.

• 07 January 2010

• News: CES: Parrot announces helicopter controlled by iPhone

  Bluetooth specialist manufacturer Parrot has been wowing visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas with its AR.Drone: toy helicopter and real-life video game that's controlled with an iPhone.

• 28 December 2009

• News: Psystar dodges Apple legal with Linux ploy

  Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product, a $50 utility that lets customers install Apple's Snow Leopard operating system on generic Intel-based computers.

• 22 December 2009

• News: PC Advisor's IT Company Of The Decade

  The end of the first decade of the 21st Century marks a great time to take stock of a monumental 10 years in technology. Here are PC Advisor's companies of the decade: there can be only one winner.

• 18 December 2009

• News: Dell offers cheap Linux-based quick-boot system

  Dell is offering as an option for some laptops a memory module called Latitude On Flash that can boot up a computer in seconds. The module is available alongside the option of an existing quick-boot system that uses an Arm processor.

• 16 December 2009

• News: Carphone Warehouse to offer Nokia N900 in January

  The Carphone Warehouse will be offering Nokia's N900 from January 14.

• 26 November 2009

• News: Emblaze First Else to 'revolutionise smartphones'

  Emblaze Mobile this week said that its upcoming First Else smartphone and Linux-based Else Intuition operating system will revolutionise the mobile phone market.

• 21 November 2009

• News: Analysis: the two fatal flaws in Google Chrome OS

  Randall C Kennedy argues that a lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history. Here's why Google Chrome OS is destined to fail.

• News: In pictures: Google Chrome OS revealed

  The web-based Google Chrome OS was shown for the first time Thursday, where the company gave a brief demo of the operating system. Here's our visual tour of Google nascent operating system.

• 09 November 2009

• News: Firefox launched five years ago today

  Mozilla's web browser Firefox celebrate its fifth birthday today.

• 30 October 2009

• News: Linux OS for netbooks gets a boost

  Canonical yesterday updated its Linux distribution for netbooks, simplifying the interface and adding new programs that the company says will make it easier for users to access and use web content.

• 27 October 2009

• News: Windows 7 is 'excellent', says Ubuntu creator

  Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only claims to be "delighted" that Windows 7 is out, but calls the new operating system an "excellent release."

• 23 October 2009

• News: Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate available

  Canonical on Thursday made available the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7.

• 24 September 2009

• News: Intel backs Linux OS for nettops

  Intel has expanded the scope of Linux-based Moblin by porting the OS from netbooks to mobile devices and desktops, where it could compete with Microsoft's Windows OS.

• 22 September 2009

• News: Linux Moblin netbooks to be announced at IDF

  A new Linux netbook based on Moblin will be introduced this week, and it may represent a new way that the Linux community is approaching the mass market

• 16 September 2009

• News: MySpace opens Qizmt tech to recommend friends

  MySpace yesterday released as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

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