Asus planning to port Android to netbooks – Hardware – iTnews Australia
Asus is planning to port Android, Google’s operating system designed for phones, onto netbooks.
According to an interview with Bloomberg Asus has allocated a squad of engineers to put the operating system onto its range of netbooks.
Asus kicked off the netbook market with the EeePC [...]
Byte Into It – 25 Feb 09
Byte Into It – 18 Feb 09
http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” adds support for Marvell’s Orion platform
which is used in many storage devices. Supported storage devices include
the QNAP Turbo Station series, HP Media Vault mv2120, and Buffalo Kurobox
Pro. Additionally, “Lenny” now supports several Netbooks, in particular
the Eee PC by Asus. “Lenny” also contains the build tools for Emdebian
which allow Debian source packages [...]
Byte Into It – 11 Feb 09
Apple takes 10 per cent of operating system market – News – PC Authority
Apple
now has more than 10 per cent of the operating system market, according
to data from market research firm Net Applications.
Apple’s
share grew to 9.93 per cent in January, as Windows fell to 88.26 per
cent. In addition, the iPhone operating system was used by [...]
Byte Into It – 04 Feb 09
Belkin fake reviews case raises broad questions about peer ratings – Network World
Belkin’s admission that an employee has been offering to pay for favorable
Web-based peer reviews of its network gear raises the question of not
only how widespread such practices are but whether they undermine
community and trust in the connections and relationships that the Web
seems to [...]
