NVIDIA Eschews Android and Linux, Prefers Windows for Tegra
Jun 21, 2009NVIDIA sees itself obliged to openly announce its preference for Windows CE for its new Tegra platform. This news alone would be suspicious if it weren't for the graphics chipmaker's not so subtle dig at Android and Linux.
more »Apache SSHD Java Library in First Release
Jun 19, 2009Apache SSHD, a Java implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol is available in its first version 0.1.0.
more »Wind River Hypervisor Virtualizes Multicore Processors
Jun 17, 2009Embedded specialist Wind River has released its Hypervisor product as one of the fruits of their alignment with chipmaker Intel.
more »Python, Lua and BeanShell: Google's New Android Scripting
Jun 12, 2009The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) is under Apache 2.0 licensing and should soon have Ruby and JavaScript support.
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May 31, 2009Bill Gates, Laptops and Confusion
May 27, 2009On his visit to Spain, Bill Gates met the Spanish prime minister and didn't fail to lobby for Microsoft computers in schools. But lacking knowledge of Spanish regions led to some confusion and did not quite bring the attention he might have wanted.
more »Nexenta Core 2.0 with Ubuntu 8.04 Packages
May 27, 2009Nexenta Core Platform (NCP), a free OS with the OpenSolaris kernel and GNU userland, is now out in version 2.0.
more »Organizations Find Switch from Windows Better than Expected
May 26, 2009British market researchers took some lessons from a survey of 1,275 Linux migrators in organizations worldwide.
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