- Five of the Best Free Linux Disk Encryption Tools
- Editorial: Android’s problem isn’t fragmentation, it’s contamination
- IDC Forecasts that smartphones will grow by 50 percent in 2011
(Appolicious) - Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor – EWeek
- Toshiba Android Tablet Coming Soon
- Amazon, Watch Out: Sony Launches Cloud Music Player on PSP
(PC Magazine) - AT&T’s Motorola ATRIX 4G just $49.99 from Amazon
- Packard Bell debuts Liberty Tab Honeycomb tablet, clearly adores freedom
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo launch delayed; Xperia PLAY and arc volumes affected by Japan quake
- Sprint Samsung Replenish ‘green’ Android phone in the works
- Google preps Android for its corporate interview, adds new encryption and security measures
- Verizon Wireless DROID Incredible 2 shots leak
- Gaming Is the Most Popular Use For Tablets
Archive for April 2011
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 10, 2011
Groklaw Articles Ending on May 16th
The sad announcement was made today (Saturday, April 09 2011). PJ is calling it done over at Groklaw. While I’m sad to hear that she’s calling it a day, I would like to thank her for all her hard work in the name of Linux. Go over to http://www.groklaw.net to read her explanation as to why.
Thanks PJ! We’ll miss you!
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 9, 2011
- In-Depth Look At the Xperia Play
- Nokia: Symbian Is Not Open Source
- Acer Honeycomb Tablet On The Way, Pre-Order At Best Buy
- Android tablet on the cheap: Acer Iconia A500 is the XOOM "Light"
- Android tweak lets admins reset stolen devices
- Google Launches New Android Enterprise Features
- Samsung’s Droid Charge spotted in leaked promo material, multimedia dock in tow
- Motorola Xoom UK pricing official at £580 for 3G and £480 for WiFi-only
- Xperia Play supplies affected by earthquakes in Japan
(Appolicious) - 16GB Xoom With 4G LTE In The Works?
- HTC breaks its own sales and profit records, keeps riding the smartphone wave to success
- Purported Verizon screenshot points to LTE-upgradable 16GB Motorola Xoom
- Steve Wozniak would consider returning to Apple, says company should be more open
- Not Just Generic-Brand iPads: These Android Tablets Stand Out
(ContributorNetwork) - Comparing the Asus Eee Pad Transformer to the iPad 2
(ContributorNetwork) - Why Did Google Just Give Its Chrome Leader Big Bucks And A Promotion? (GOOG) – San Francisco Chronicle
- New screenshots reveal more Windows 8 features
- Google Launches Three New Android Features For Business
(PC World) - How a Government Shutdown Could Affect Tech
(Mashable) - Motorola’s SocialTV app will turn your Xoom or Atrix into a communicative couch companion
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 8, 2011
- * Review: MID M80003W Tablet with Android 2.2 *
- Verizon Wireless And AT&T Dispute Analyst Claims Over Poor Xoom And Atrix Sales
- Rubin: “I Think I’m Having a Gene Amdahl Moment”
- T-Mobile gets official with pricing for Android-based G2x
- Ars Reviews GNOME 3.0
- Android smartphone share to rise, prices to fall
(AFP) - Android Fragmentation vs Control: Is It Too Open?
(NewsFactor) - Droid X2 reappears in the wild, still indistinguishable from Droid X
- VMware to Ship Virtualization Clients for Android, Mac OS X
(PC World) - Microsoft’s Tablet OS – Techie Insider
- Report: iOS 4.3.2 coming soon
- GameStop eyes tablet distribution, opens up for business on Facebook
(Digital Trends) - Linux Chief HILARIOUSLY Claims The Battle With Microsoft Is Over, And Linux … – San Francisco Chronicle
- Gartner: Android market share to near 50 percent
- Alleged crackdown shows Android politicking
- Google begins tablet version of Chrome OS
- Android Will Rule Half of the Smartphone Market By 2012 [STUDY]
(Mashable) - ZodTTD makes PSX4Droid 3.0 free, claims Google booted him from Android Market
- Google’s Andy Rubin defends Android’s openness
- Android chief Andy Rubin tackles open source qualms, says Honeycomb isn’t ‘one size fits all’
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 7, 2011
- Of Open-Source and Openness
- Mono Comes To Android
- Linux Development to Get High Availability Push
(PC World) - Hey AT&T: Stop Yapping About 4G and Start Selling the Atrix
(PC World) - Dell Streak 10 to launch mid-June with Honeycomb, possible name change in the works
- Windows Servers Hacked at The Hartford Insurance Company
(PC World) - Report Says Sales of Motorola’s Xoom and Atrix 4G Slow
(NewsFactor) - Samsung Mobile Announces U.S. Availability of Wi-Fi only Galaxy Tab
- Xoom, Atrix struggling in iPad-dominated world
(Appolicious) - Dear Android, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
(ContributorNetwork) - Samsung’s Wi-Fi Galaxy Tab retail barrage starts: Price elasticity experiment begins
- Android Homecoming & Face.com Announce $5000 Developer Challenge
- Sprint Doesn’t Know What Version The EVO View 4G Will Have
- The Motorola XOOM is most certainly not a flop
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Wi-Fi edition landing April 10th for $349.99
- Analyst Cuts Motorola Estimate By A Billion Sparked By Poor Xoom Sales
- 20 Years of Linux down, and the best is yet to come
- Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo update for all’ pulled from website
- Skewed survey says: Majority of teens don’t want an iPhone
- Has Motorola only sold 100,000 Xooms?
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 6, 2011
- Samsung, Boost Mobile introduce Galaxy Prevail Android handset
- Microsoft “A Little Puppy”, We Should All Be So Lucky – Network World
- How Ballmer’s Windows-dependency has helped kill Microsoft’s chance at tablet success
- Motorola XOOM and ATRIX 4G sales are ‘disappointing,’ analyst claims
- GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round
- Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy,’ says Linux Foundation chief – IDG News Service
- Android becoming the multi-platform platform with BlueStacks
- MLB.com CEO: Android users less likely to buy, more likely to pirate apps
- Leaked Windows 8 Screenshots Show Phone 7 Tiles
(NewsFactor) - App review: SPB Shell 3D for Android
- No iPhone 5 this June, report claims
- Financial Times asking for changes to Apple’s subscription rules
(Appolicious) - Google’s new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out
- Android Dominates UK Now Too…
- Woz: iPad is for normal people, not engineers
- Motorola Fine Tuning Xoom Strategy For UK Launch
- Dell Windows 7 tablet coming until September
(Digital Trends) - iPhone 5 — what we know
- Two Linux-based NAS devices reach market – LinuxDevices.com
- Android 2.3 upgrade list: Is your phone getting Gingerbread?
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 5, 2011
- Windows 8 Gets PDF Reader, Tablet UI Shots Leaked
- Android market share jumps 7 percentage points from November to February
(Appolicious) - Sony Honeycomb Tablet Coming This Summer
- Jailbreaking Grows up: Cydia Scores Advertising Deal with Toyota
- Latest Version of Redsn0w Jailbreaking Software Released
(ContributorNetwork) - Microsoft’s Windows 8 and the ‘I’ word (Immersive)
- 87% of Android developers think fragmentation is a problem, survey finds
- Kyocera Katsura ‘gaming tablet’ blurs for the camera
- There’s More to Love in Puppy Linux 5.2.5
(PC World) - AT&T Nexus S vs. AT&T iPhone 4
(ContributorNetwork) - How Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 can win mobile with virtualization
- Sony confirms it will introduce tablet this year
(Digital Trends) - When Fanboy Meets Fact – Android Community Maturity
- Google Fights Back Against Android Fragmentation
- Android Becomes Top Smartphone Platform in U.S.
(NewsFactor) - Google plans to bid for Nortel patent portfolio
(AP) - Can Google, Amazon Gang up on iPhone?
(PC World) - Android’s 5 Next Challenges
(PC World) - Motorola Atrix 4G Review Roundup: The Critics Weigh-in
(PC World) - Windows 8 screenshots reveal ribbon interface – CNET
Interesting Linux News for the Day – April 4, 2011
- A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982
- Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders
- Apple debuts first iPad 2 ad: ‘We Believe’
(Digital Trends) - Q-and-A: The BlackBerry PlayBook Can Run Which Android Apps?
(ContributorNetwork) - Apple’s New iPad 2 Ad Stresses Ease of Use, Not Specs
(PC World) - Sprint and Bell Drop Galaxy Tab to $199 On Contract
- Xperia X10 goes on sale for just a dollar on contract, Gingerbread-flavored future makes it appealing
- What Microsoft’s IE9 Moves Mean For You
(PC World) - Nexus S 4G up for pre-order at Best Buy, could be with us tomorrow
- Windows 8 To Get Ribbon, Metro Welcome Screen?
- Comscore: Android Now 1 in 3 Phones
- Samsung Nexus S with AT&T-compatable radio shows up in online catalog
- Android’s in-app billing makes a dent: Dungeon Defenders free on Android Market
- Apple’s new iPad 2 ad: Technology is not enough – CNET (blog)
- Google Pulls PSX4Droid For Sony's Xperia Play
- Android Passes BlackBerry In US Market Share
- ComScore: Android dominates market, Verizon iPhone 4 boosts Apple
(Digital Trends) - Can Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Win the Browser Wars?
(PC World) - Tech Grill: Episode 1, Tablet talk
- HTC confirms Flyer tablet will get Honeycomb… sometime