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Qualcomm Android Phone – it even runs Quake!

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 1st 2008 2 Comments

Qualcomm is at CTIA these year showing off the incredible functionality of some of their chips. One way they decided to show off this functionality was throwing together an Android phone. Then they put Quake on it.

Quake, a Doom-Like FPS from the good old days of PC gaming, is a fairly demanding game, especially considering they had it running, in full, in 3D, at 30 frames per second at a VGA resolution. This just goes to show that not only is Android a freaking amazing platform to be able to pull this off on the software side, but Qualcomms silicon chips are equally amazing for being able to pull it off on the hardware side of things.

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Control4 HC-500 Controller – Affordable Linux-Based Home Automation

By Ewdison Then on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

Nowadays, Linux has been used for so many gadgets and computing appliances – some of those who use them does not even know Linux powers it. While Linux is not the bona-fide desktop OS in term of market share, it is a very powerful operating system that many average Joe still afraid of giving it a try. Control4 is one of the companies that take advantage of Linux for its flexibility and low cost. Recently Control4 introduced a new home automation controller, the Linux based HC-500.

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Dash Express Reviewed

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 27th 2008 No Comments

If you don’t remember the Dash, it’s the new GPS unit that was co-developed with OpenMoko, and actually utilizes the OpenMoko Platform. It has WiFi and GPRS built in that allow it to do all sorts of cool things including search Yahoo on the fly for points of interest or upload, wirelessly, addresses, POIs, or even geological RSS feed, KML lists, things of that nature.

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Android PC Case Mod – I think this whole thing may have gone a wee bit too far

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 1 Comment

So some guy (Read: Eric Burke) decided to build a case/computer in dedication to the Open Handset Alliances’ new development platform known as Android. The logo for the platform is some Clip Art quality green robot and this PC essentially looks like the head of said robot.

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Fujitsu LifeBook U810, T2010, P1620 and S6510 received Novell YES Certification

By Ewdison Then on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 No Comments

Four Fujitsu LifeBook laptops is now Novell YES Certified for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The LifeBook U810, T2010, P1620 and S6510 have been heavily tested with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop distribution to ensure the compatibility.

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CES 2008: OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner hands-on

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Jan 10th 2008 2 Comments

The video is of one of our other staffers getting his hands on the device, but I also got some hands on time, and I have to say, that for an open source phone, it’s not too bad. It is a little sluggish, and the menu’s can be confusing since they are all picture based and the pictures don’t make much sense, but other than that, I like it.

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Tivo Busting out of Set-Top Boxes and coming to your PC

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Nov 28th 2007 No Comments

Thanks to a new deal with Nero, TiVo is well on its way to hitting your PC. Sure, Windows Media Center has done a good job of dominating the DVR on a PC industry for oh so long, but it looks like they are getting some competition from a worthy competitor.

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Soon you’ll have your choice of Open Source MythTV (and SageTV), Closed source Windows Media Center, and Closed source (but non-windows) Nero/TiVo TiVo service. I like choices, and the only thing that has kept me from getting a TiVo in the past has been the monthly fees, so, removing those by making me responsible for obtaining the proper hardware, well that’s fine, and I might use the TiVo app on my PC when it comes out.

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Open Handset Alliance Conference Call

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 5th 2007 1 Comment

Today the OHA started its newly formed alliance by having a conference call for the press. There were a lot of the members of the conference present, and they all had something to say. The best part however, was the Q&A.

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The most important things to note are, they aren’t announcing a Google Phone, now, if you heard the manner in which they stated this, several times due to the question coming up a lot, you got the hint that what they were really saying was, lets focus on Android and the OHA, we aren’t (keyword) announcing, a Google Phone (keyword again) today. They also kept reiterating that if they were to make a single Google Phone, they would need an OS and platform to base it off of, and Android is perfect for that. So, they weren’t giving up the details on a potential Google Phone, but chances are its still going to happen.

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Open Handset Alliance – Google’s open mobile phone platform initiative

By Satsuki Then on Monday, Nov 5th 2007 No Comments

We’ve been reporting a lot of “Google Phone” news recently and today Google officially announces its mobile phone technology platform. With supports from more than 30 companies ranging from wireless service providers to handset makers, this is going to be pretty big.

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Firefox for your mobile phone – renders full web

By Liaw Kim Poh on Wednesday, Oct 10th 2007 2 Comments

Tired of “mobile version” of the web on your phone? Get an iPhone and you will enjoy full web on Safari – at least for now. The people at Mozilla has decided to work on a full fledge browser for mobile phone.

The new mobile browser will be able to render full web pages instead of “mobile version” or WAP version. Mobile Firefox will not be available until next year according to TechCrunch.

FireFox mobile will definitely gives the mobile browser market a different perspective on how web pages should render on mobile phone – following Safari’s lead of course.