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LiMo chief talks rivals, Nokia, and mobile Linux
Insight Morgan Gillis discusses the LiMo Foundation's first mobile Linux platform release and why it matters that Nokia bought Trolltech.
Tags: Linux
Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
News Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
Tags: Linux, Mobile/Wireless, Open source, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, Mobile Linux, intellectual property, phone, LiMo Foundation
A shifting landscape for e-mail security
News Tech heavyweights are taking charge in a "brutal battle" for dominance among spam fighters and other e-mail watchdogs.
Tags: Network security, Acquisitions, SMB
LHC on course for November restart
News The giant particle accelerator should restart in mid-November, and could commence high-energy experiments before the end of the year.
Tags: Hardware, Magnet, Gillies, Beam Collision, CERN, Beam, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, Hardware
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications, CERN, Cable, Large Hadron Collider, Supercomputing
LHC restart pushed back further
News The U.K.'s Large Hadron Collider will come back online in late summer 2009 at the earliest, and not in June as previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Infrastructure/architecture management, R&D, CERN, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management, Supercomputing
Change of tactics in war on viruses
Insight Could quarantining e-mail be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
Tags: PC security, Data security, Firewalls, Spam and phishing, E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Spam filtering
LHC re-start delayed again until September
News Latest postponement puts the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, back on line a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown.
Tags: CERN, Malfunction, theory, director, April, James Gillies
The once and future app store
News Third-party applications are the future of the smartphone business, but there are varying--and valid--theories on how those applications should reach the world.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Business applications, Mobile platforms, Apple Inc., Mobile, Carrier, Symbian Inc., phone, AT&T Corp.
Key mobile Linux platform out in March
News The LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux platform will be released next month, but the API is available to developers immediately.
Tags: Linux
Symantec to launch security e-mail appliance
News IronPort, meanwhile, is expected to announce a bevy of new partnerships Monday--including an expanded deal with Symantec.
Tags: E-mail servers
Yahoo, Google ink search-ad pact
News Google will supply Yahoo with search ads in a pact Yahoo believes will raise revenue by US$800 million in its first year. But, that also could give more power to Google.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, monetization, Eric Schmidt, Hitwise, revenue
Apple, AT&T sued again over iPhone 3G
News A new lawsuit claims that Apple and AT&T knew that the iPhone 3G was going to encounter reception issues but failed to warn consumers of the problem.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, 3G (Third Generation), Lawsuits, Legal, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, AT&T Corp., performance, software
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Announcing new members, including Mozilla and Verizon, the LiMo Foundation claims to be in talks with two major enterprise Linux-distribution companies.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Linux, Browser, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile Linux, Mozilla Corp., intellectual property, enterprise computing, software
LiMo launches mobile Linux handsets
News The LiMo Foundation launched its first mobile handsets, which run on the Linux-based Mobile LiMo Platform, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday.
Tags: Linux, Cellular phones
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