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Caldera

Submission + - SCO rise from the dead to maintain the Linux rage (itwire.com)

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davidmwilliams
davidmwilliams writes: "WTF? Is it April 1st? Or is it 2003? No! It's January 2009 and who'd have thought ... The SCO Group (formerly Caldera) are trying to raise funds to get out of bankruptcy and continue their fight against IBM which they lodged way back in 2003 over claims that IBM contributed SCO intellectual property into Linux without authorisation. Here's the background including SCO's monumental fail in 2007. Today they're back, proposing to auction off their saleable products to build up a war chest to keep the legal flames fanning. You have to ask: is McBride mad? And is someone else pushing the agenda?"
Microsoft

Submission + - 2009: Year of the Linux Delusion (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to "web only" applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22386/1103/"
Portables

Submission + - Windows crushing Linux in netbook market: Acer (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: "Contrary to some recent reports, senior managers at Acer and other leading vendors have confirmed that Microsoft Windows XP now dominates the emerging sub-notebook market with more than 90% of new sales. Meanwhile, Linux, which had the netbooks market to itself until April this year, has seen its share of the space eroded to less than 10% in a breath-taking decline."
Linux Business

Submission + - SPAM: The true cost of one laptop per child

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WirePosted
WirePosted writes: "Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do."
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The Internet

Submission + - SPAM: Skype hype to soar as 100 billion minute milestone

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WirePosted
WirePosted writes: "Skype, the p2p Internet phone company that has put the fear of God into just about every telecommunications company on Planet Earth, has reached a milestone that will have those telcos quaking in their boots even harder — 100 billion Skype-to-Skype calls that were, effectively, free — while also winning an award for their 'paradigm shifting' 3 Skypephone."
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Technology (Apple)

Submission + - A slick iPhone unbrick trick (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: "A story of one user whose iPhone had just turned into an iBrick. Now facing the ultimate iPhone nightmare, here's how he used the free iPhone unbrick trick — and it can help you too!"

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