LiMo's New Linux-Based Smart Phones
Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC and Panasonic unveil seven new Linux-based smart phones for the LiMo Foundation. Review a sneak peek of all seven LiMo Linux smart phones in this eWEEK slide show. -
Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC and Panasonic have unveiled seven Linux-based smart phones for the LiMo Foundation. Review a sneak peek of all seven LiMo Linux smart phones in this eWEEK slide show.
Motorola Motozine ZN5
The ZN5 is Motorola's newest LiMo phone. The 5-megapixel ZN5...
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Senate Approves Cyber-crime Bill
Identity theft victims can seek restitution in federal courts, thanks to a cyber-crime bill passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. The bill also increases cyber-crime penalties and adds cyber-extortion to the list of federal crimes. - Amid Congress' loud brawling over energy legislation the week of July 28,
lawmakers quietly managed to approve a bill to expand the rights of cyber-crime
victims. Approved in a unanimous vote by the U.S. Senate, the bill would allow
identity theft victims to seek restitution in federal court for ...
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Vonage Makes VOIP Mobile
Vonage Pro lets mobile workers take their home office phones with them. With features like Vonage Companion, users can set up their offices wherever they are. - Vonage is rolling out its Vonage Pro VOIP offering designed to enable mobile workers and home workers bring their phone systems with them on the road.
Vonage Pro includes the next-generation Vonage SoftPhone client, called Vonage Companion, which lets users access their home numbers from any deskto...
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Will Mobile Social Networks Be Thrown for a Loopt?
Location-based mobile social networks, such as Loopt, GyPSii and Pelago, could be a $3.3 billion market by 2013. But history and current trends suggest these startups won't be standing on their own for some time. Loopt has already won deals with Sprint and Verizon, GyPSii is working with Samsung and Garmin, Google's acquired Jaiku, and Nokia bought Plazes. - It's always fun to noodle over on market expectations for red-hot technologies. But the media and analysts are too often guilty of trying to drag a horse behind a cart.
For example, if I told you location-based mobile social networks would spawn a $3 billion-plus market within the next five years, ...
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Dell Tries to Trademark 'Cloud Computing'
In an attempt to define the next stage of IT infrastructure, Dell wants to trademark the term cloud computing. A detailed trademark application from Dell emerged after a week of cloud computing announcements from IBM, HP, Intel and Yahoo. - Dell is looking to make cloud computing synonymous with the company.
In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
Dell has applied to trademark the term cloud computing. The
disclosure of the applications comes a few days after a busy week in
the emerging field of cloud computing tha...
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New LiMo Phones Up the Mobile Linux Ante for Android
The LiMo Foundation reveals the next swath of its Linux-based smart phones, which are designed to help users access the Internet from anywhere on the go. The new phones apply additional pressure on Google's mobile and wireless plans to bring phones based on its Android mobile operating system to the market. - The LiMo Foundation unleashed seven new Linux-based mobile phones Aug. 4, pressuring Google and the Open Handset Alliance to create handsets based on the Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
The phones, forged from the open-source LiMo Platform, are: Motorola's Motozinet ZN5; FOMA N906i, FO...
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Motorola Names Jha to Lead Handset Unit
The management shake-up continues at Motorola, with former Qualcomm COO Sanjay Jha taking over Motorola's struggling handset division. Motorola is expected to spin off its handset division as a separate, publicly traded company. - Motorola continued its management shake-up Aug. 4 with the appointment of former Qualcomm Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha as co-CEO of the company and CEO of Motorola's Mobile Devices division. Jha will serve as co-CEO with current CEO Greg Brown.
Brown was also named CEO of Motorola's Broadban...
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eWeek Newsbreak, Aug. 4, 2008
President Bush signed the so-called VOIP-911 Bill into law last week, a step toward ensuring VOIP users have the same protections and access to 911 systems as landlines. The new law ensures 911 service is available during an emergency whether the call comes from a VOIP or traditional phone company; SAP CEO Henning Kagermann told analysts and investors last week, that SAP could actually benefit from a rough economy. SAP reported a solid second quarter and global economic turmoil could be helping, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann. Business software makers like SAP are less likely to suffer from a weakening economy, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said, because their products are designed to help companies become more efficient and save costs; Intel will sell 500,000 Classmate PCs to Portugal for elementary school students nationwide. Intels Classmate customer win nearly matches the total number of XO Notebooks sold by rival OLPC (One Laptop per Child); and the next Silicon valley startup could be built on Google cash. Google is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm. Sources told the Wall Street Journal Google has hired several VC mavens, but no firms plans have been made. - Video Content....
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Agile Plus Open Source Equals Developer Success
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and maintainer of Ubuntu Linux, said blending agile development practices with open-source community development is a key to successful software projects in the new world. - If you mix the best of agile with the best of what open-source development has to offer, you're looking at a recipe for a successful software development experience.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, essentially said as much in a packed session at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention recentl...
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Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009
Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only the second inning in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft still needs big help in online services. - Now that the annual shareholders meeting is over, the attendees have been quot;Yanged quot; and headed back home, and the corporate propaganda machine is taking a vacation, what's next for Yahoo and its embattled leadership?
CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang--who is adept at calming investor nerve...
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