Acer plans up to 6 new Android handsets for first half 2010

Acer plans to launch as many as six new smartphones with Google's Android mobile operating system in the first half of next year, a company executive said Thursday.

Google to provide update on Chrome OS
Google is getting ready to shed a little more light on its Chrome OS this week.

Acer debuts Liquid Android smartphone, new netbook
Acer, the world's third largest PC vendor, on Wednesday announced two of its most highly anticipated products with Google's Android mobile operating system on board, the Liquid smartphone and an Aspire One netbook.

Acer's Android netbook due this quarter
Acer is planning to launch a dual-boot netbook this quarter that will ship with both Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android operating system, the head of its Japan unit said Tuesday.

Unix at 40: Hanging on despite strong Linux, Windows challenges
The middle-aged OS is not expected to die any time soon, just slowly fade away

LG unveils its first Android smartphone
LG Electronics has joined the ranks of mobile phone makers putting Google's Android mobile operating system into smartphones, unveiling the LG-GW620 on Monday.

Foxconn developing inexpensive, Arm-based smartbooks
Foxconn Technology plans to launch its first smartbooks next year, which are mini-laptops that use microprocessors from Arm Holdings normally found in smartphones.

Red Hat open sources Windows virtualisation drivers
In another sign interoperability between virtual Linux and Windows operating systems is gathering pace, Red Hat has quietly released a set of drivers to improve the performance of Windows guests hosted on Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.

The greatest open source software of all time
Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop. While we've awarded the Dojos, Xens, and SugarCRMs, we've ignored Linux, GNU, and the *BSDs -- because, well, don't their excellence and importance go without saying? In other cases, where open source giants did receive our award (Snort and Wireshark come to mind), a "mere" Bossie almost seems like faint praise.

Android moves into home entertainment
MIPS Technologies on Monday made available Android software source code to anyone interested in creating Android applications for products that use the MIPS32 chip architecture.

Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release
Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available, according to an open-source network engineer.

Clearwire WiMAX driver for Mac due next month
Clearwire next month will finally introduce client software for linking Apple Macintosh laptops directly to its WiMax service, as well as introducing a dual-mode USB modem for WiMax and Sprint Nextel's 3G network.

Google Chrome: Does the World Need Another OS?
When Google first launched its Chrome Web browser, many of us immediately saw Chrome as Google's extension of an operating system. Now, that prophecy is fulfilled with news of Google's plans to open-source the Chrome OS code later this year with view to have it available in the second half of 2010. But immediately, this raises fundamental questions about what, exactly, defines an operating system, and what will distinguish Android, the open-source mobile OS spearheaded by Google, from Chrome OS.

HTC puts new face on latest Google Android phone, Hero
Smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) introduced a completely revamped user interface (UI) on its latest smartphone running Google Android software, the HTC Hero, highlighting the importance companies see in making users love the software on their handset.

Android an alternative to Windows in netbooks, says Gartner
Google's Android mobile phone software worked well on mini-laptops at the Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show and, backed by the strong Google brand, may be headed for prime time, two Gartner analysts said Monday.

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