Tablets and netbooks based on Nokia's and Intel's joint MeeGo mobile OS are expected to start shipping in the second quarter this year, a source familiar with Intel's plans said on Friday. Intel has been investing heavily in the development of MeeGo, which is a lightweight Linux OS for tablets, smartphones, and embedded devices. Thus far, MeeGo has not been offered by any tablet or netbook vendor.
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Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip
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Microsoft's Windows revenues plunge 30%
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IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 29/01/2011
Tablets with MeeGo OS coming by June
Tablets and netbooks based on Nokia's and Intel's joint MeeGo mobile OS are expected to start shipping in the second quarter this year, a source familiar with Intel's plans said on Friday. Intel has been investing heavily in the development of MeeGo, which is a lightweight Linux OS for tablets, smartphones, and embedded devices. Thus far, MeeGo has not been offered by any tablet or netbook vendor.
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Database gurus tackle cloud challenges
The challenges cloud computing presents to database technology came into focus Friday during the New England Database Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One talk by University of Massachusetts researcher Emmanuel Cecchet centered on Dolly, a system focused on dynamic provisioning of database resources in the cloud.
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Nvidia has announced that Parallel Nsight Professional Edition is now available for all Visual Studio developers, free of charge.
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The real story behind Microsoft's $20 billion quarter
If you listen to the financial analysts, all is well in Redmond.
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China's ZTE outselling Apple in mobile phone wars
Mobile phone shipments are on the rise worldwide according to IDC, driven by growing hunger for high-capability smartphones.
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Details of RIM's BlackBerry mobile OS update leaked
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) released the first BlackBerry smartphone running its "BlackBerry 6" mobile OS just six months ago, but the company is already hard at work on the next major BlackBerry OS device software update, BlackBerry OS 6.1.
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With wired Internet locked, Egypt looks to the sky
On Wednesday afternoon, Mohammad Al-Najjar received an unexpected text message from a contact in Egypt: "We r at war here pray4 us." The message came as the Egyptian government continued an unprecedented block on Internet traffic and mobile communications providers on Friday following mass demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarek to resign.
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Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip
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Microsoft's Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30 percent last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said on Thursday. But in an earnings call with Wall Street analysts on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft said that revenues from the Windows group actually increased by 3 percent. It called that "in line" with the quarter's global PC sales growth.
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After weeks of delays, the launch of The Daily -- Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs's iPad-based newspaper -- is delayed no more. Tune in next week for the details. What else happened? Mark Zuckerberg had his fan page hacked, proving that even he can be embarrassed on Facebook; the oldest galaxy in the universe has been discovered; your iPhone may one day replace your credit card; and Intel is taking creative advice from a rap star. Are you in the know? Prove it by acing our quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now let's get it started in here.
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With protests growing, Egypt cuts links to Internet
As protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations, Egypt has pulled the plug on the Internet. The cut-off happened just after midnight, local time, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys, when the largest Internet Service Providers operating out of the country stopped providing the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information used to connect the rest of the world with computers in the Egypt.
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Verizon to bid for cloud provider Terremark
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