While Microsoft is finally buying a clue and incorporating its Zune media playing and Xbox game capability into its new Windows Mobile, mobile Linux is making its own improvements. First, Intel and Nokia are merging their mobile Linux distributions into a single operating system: MeeGo. At the same time, Adobe and Google has partnered up [...]
or all the hype about the rumored Apple Tablet, the ‘will they or won’t they’ about Microsoft’s Courier tablet, and a host of real tablet-announcements such as Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 and the Dell’s still unnamed slate, everyone seems to have forgotten one tiny, little fact. Tablets have been around forever and they’ve never, ever lived [...]
What do you get when you mix Novell’s SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11 with the Linux Foundation’s Moblin 2.1 netbook desktop? A lightweight Linux desktop that’s trying to snag the netbook desktop market before Google’s Chrome OS runs away with it later this year.
How well will Novell do at this? Well, after working with [...]
I don’t care how often I see it; I still can’t get used to people typing on tables. Bad enough that people are always mumbling to themselves-cut cells C3-C7, paste to D3-D7-but the constant drumming of fingers is just annoying. And, please, don’t get me started on people wearing iContact lens! At least when you [...]
We all use Google. Well, maybe not Bill Gates, but that’s about it. Now, Google is hoping to become an even bigger part of our everyday lives.
The key to this is Google’s three new search features: real-time search, location-based service and augmented reality.
Think about it: Google has primarily been about computer-based search. You [...]