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Toshiba AC100 dumps Android for Ubuntu 10.10, gets useful

Chris Davies, Oct 1st 2010 Discuss [3]

Toshiba's AC100 is certainly an interesting notebook on the face of it: Tegra 2 processor, full QWERTY and plenty of battery life, but the Android OS does mean it's definitely a companion device and not your sole ultraportable. That could all change, however, now a hack for loading Ubuntu onto the AC100 has been developed; Carrypad pulled together the instructions and files from tosh-ac100.wetpaint.org, ac100.gudinna.com and the official Toshiba forums and managed to get his AC100 up and running with Ubuntu 10.10. Read The Full Story

Nexus One gets MeeGo, plus Dell Streak & HTC Desire [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

If you've a taste for MeeGo and a Google Nexus One lying around - or, for that matter, a Dell Streak or an HTC Desire - then you'll be pleased to hear that the open-source team over at the MeeGo Wiki are busy slapping the Intel/Nokia collaboration onto all manner of Android handsets. As you'd hope, much of the device functionality is working, so you could feasibly have a MeeGo smartphone long before Nokia get their act together. Read The Full Story

Neuros Control Tablet turns $130 Android slate into LINK remote [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's been a while since we've heard from Neuros, but it seems the company's reworked open-source media player isn't the only thing they've been working on. In fact, they've been playing around with an Android tablet, but rather than hoping to make it the be-all and end-all competitor to the iPad they've instead turned it into a flexible remote control for their LINK system. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

YouView IPTV DVR detailed: launching 1H 2011

Chris Davies, Sep 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

UK digital content partnership Project Canvas has spawned its commercial service, YouView, promising to bring IPTV to British households through a new set-top box. Backed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 - as well as BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva - the YouView service will support catch-up streamed TV, pay-per-view on-demand content and a DVR for regular free-to-air Freeview digital TV broadcasts. Read The Full Story

Egg-Bot Makes Painting Eggs Too Easy

Evan Selleck, Sep 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

There aren't many things out there that haven't been touched by the future yet. Painting Easter eggs, something that's been done for as long as anyone can remember, probably, was one of the last bastions of the "old days," but it looks like that's all over and done with. And while there's probably other robots out there painting eggs right now, this one you can bring into your house, and put together yourself. Yep, the Do-It-Yourself camp just got an Easter egg painter. Read The Full Story

MeeGo eyes your BMW dashboard as GENIVI Alliance plan cross-platform ICE

Chris Davies, Jul 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

A few weeks ago it was Microsoft in your Lexus; now it's MeeGo in your BMW. The GENIVI Alliance - a nonprofit group focusing on in-vehicle entertainment (IVI) founded by BMW, GM, Intel and others - has decided to adopt MeeGo as the basis of their next release, using the Linux OS for its multimedia, navigation, internet and other abilities, together with its future integration with tablets, smartphones and netbooks. Read The Full Story

FCam adds RAW and HDR capture to Nokia N900

Chris Davies, Jul 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Mobile photography could get a shot in the arm thanks to the combined efforts of Stanford University researchers and Nokia Research, who have pushed a new open-source digital photography platform out the door. FCam - or "Frankencamera" - is initially available for the Nokia N900, and unlocks high-end functionality like RAW image capture, full manual controls and low-light imagery through combining multiple shots of varying ISO and exposure settings. Read The Full Story

Spotify for Linux launches for premium subscribers

Chris Davies, Jul 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Streaming music service Spotify has launched a Linux version of their software, now allowing open-source aficionados access to their catalog. Following Spotify's Windows and Mac clients - and their various mobile apps - the early build still lacks some of the more advanced functionality of its siblings, including cached local storage for offline listening. Most limiting, though, is the fact that it's only available for Spotify Premium subscribers. Read The Full Story

OLPC XO-1.75 will support multitouch

Chris Davies, Jul 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

The One Laptop Per Child project has announced it will be adding touch and multitouch support to the OLPC XO-1.75, the next generation version of their convertible netbook. The first step is updating the Sugar OS to support touchscreen technology; so far, Sayamindu Dasgupta's port of the MeeGo on-screen keyboard has already been completed. Read The Full Story

Dual-booting Ubuntu Nexus One tutorial released [Video]

Chris Davies, Jul 8th 2010 Discuss [1]

Servers are getting smaller, but they're still not quite as compact as your cellphone; now, thanks to a new tutorial, your Google Nexus One can double up as your test web server. NexusOneHacks has persuaded Ubuntu to live in harmony with Android 2.2 on the Google smartphone, producing a dual-boot device that allows you to run regular Ubuntu/Linux code. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

HTC Hero and EVO 4G source kernel goes public

Chris Davies, Jul 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

HTC has publicly released the source code for the Android 2.1 firmware build of their Hero smartphone, opening the door to a new batch of hacks and modifications. Available through the HTC Developer site, the firmware is also accompanied by the kernel for the HTC EVO 4G. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm Snapdragon open-source efforts prove frustrating

Chris Davies, Jul 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm has found itself unwittingly annoying the open-source community by posting the source code for OpenGL ES 2D/3D Linux kernel driver for its Snapdragon chipset, as found in the Nexus One, Dell Streak and many other devices. However, while the kernel driver is open-source, Qualcomm's user-space driver remains closed; that prompted David Airlie, who maintains the DRM for the Linux kernel at Red Hat, to tell Qualcomm - and anyone else considering doing the same half-hearted thing - "If you aren't going to create an open userspace driver (either MIT or LGPL) then don't waste time submitting a kernel driver to me." Read The Full Story