Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) vendrá preparado para el Cloud Computing
Feb 23, 2009 cloud, opensource
Tweet El fundador de Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth anunció en un correo enviado a la lista ubuntu-devel-announce que la versión que sucederá a Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04, ya tiene nombre (Karmic Koala). Esta nueva versión 9.10 de la popular distribución está prevista para octubre. Las novedades en las versiones desktop y server son variadas, pero en [...]
Tags: linux, opensource, ubuntu
The ball and chain of iPhone was not Java: it’s Google Android
Nov 12, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Sometimes you only need to wait to understand why things happen. When Steve Jobs said ‘Java is not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain’, we were surprised and disappointed because like me a lot of people think that there is still room for Java in the [...]
Tags: architecture, development, embedded, google, gphone, iphone, java, linux, mobile
Palm Foleo cancelled just before shipping
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I was astonished when I read that Palm cancels Foleo just before starting to ship it. The reason sounds like an excuse: ‘…it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform[WindRiver] design and a single focus for our platform development efforts.‘There [...]
Google Phone OS Java based?
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I have just read this post in Engadget about rumours of the Google Phone. I will highlight this: ‘…the phone will run on a Linux variant (which is nothing new), and will be Java Virtual Machine-capable. Additionally, the OS of the phone will be Java-based (as well as the all phone apps itself), and [...]
Tags: .net, embedded, google, gphone, iphone, java, linux, microsoft
Ultra Mobile Devices war is coming
Jun 7, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Last week Palm announced a new Ultra Mobile Device (UMD) called ‘Foleo‘. This week Via has announced a new UMD reference design called Nanobook and Asus has unveiled an 3ePC, ultra low cost laptop . They are different races: Foleo is ARM-based with a limited amount of memory, Nanobook and 3ePC are x86-based. Nanobook [...]
Tags: enterprise, linux, mobile
Is this the new Fon Liberator?
Jan 21, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Looking for information on how to configure the Chillispot in my Soekris net4521 with Voyage Linux, the people from Poblete Wireless has blogged about a device that looks very similar to ‘La Fonera’, POBLETEWIRELESS: �Es esto el posible Fon Liberator?. The device has been developed by Accton, and you can check the specs here.
The killer app of FON will be access to P2P networks
Jan 14, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I have been tracking FON for two years, and I’m a ‘fonero’ since last summer. Recently I read about the ‘FON Liberator’ project, and it seems that finally the mystery of FON is over. If you analyze seriously the business model of this company and you have some basic knowledge about wireless networks, you [...]
Tags: embedded, fon, fun, hackers, hobbist, linux, nokia, upnp
