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The Android-powered Augen GenTouch78 is no iPad

August 18th, 2010 · Comments Off

The Apple iPad is going to face serious competition from Android Linux-powered tablets, but the first mass-market, low-priced tablet to arrive, the Augen GenTouch78 isn’t it. The tablet does have some good things going for it. While it’s made from black plastic, it has a solid feel. Better still, it comes with a form-fitting, faux-leather [...]

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Tags: Ebook · Entertainment · Google · Infrastructure · Linux · Music · Operating System · Tablet · Video

Oracle vs. Google over Java

August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Oracle is suing Google over the use of Java in Android and that may change everything about Java and open-source development. That’s one heck of a claim. Unfortunately, the experts agree. Java, while never a key language in Linux, is the core language for literally hundreds of software development companies and organizations. They range in [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Open Source · Oracle · SmartPhone · Sun

Oracle vs. Google over Java in Android is only the start.

August 13th, 2010 · Comments Off

I don’t think Oracle suing Google over the use of Java in Android has much to do with Android at all. I think it has everything to do with Oracle monetizing Java anyway it can. That spells big trouble for any company or developer who uses Java but hasn’t obeyed the letter of Java’s intellectual [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Google · Legal · Open Source · Oracle

Wave fails, Twitter wins. Why?

August 5th, 2010 · Comments Off

I was one of those lucky people given early admission to Google Wave. There was only one problem. Once we had Google Wave, we couldn’t figure out what to do with it. And if we, a bunch of techno-geeks and technology journalists, couldn’t come up with a good use for Wave, what chance did anyone [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Google · IM · Network · Network Services · Social Networking

Of course Android can be hacked, so what else is new?

August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off

Where do people get this stupid idea that something, anything, is unhackable? They surely don’t get it from anyone who’s ever worked with security. We know anything can be hacked. Take, for example, this silly story entitled “‘Unhackable’ Android phone can be hacked’ from last week. Uh, I hate to tell you this, but I [...]

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Tags: Google · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Security · SmartPhone