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Comment Should google be a copycat? (Score 1) 745

by Skitsnack on Monday August 24, 2009 @08:37PM (#29180361) Attached to: Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off

The article and the study looks at smartphones. There is a lot of people that just wants a nice phone that they can call other people with. A lot of these people also wants to take pictures or listen to music on their phone. Most of these people do not want to install third party applications on their phones. These handsets are much cheaper to buy and sells in much greater numbers. Some of these phones have the capabilities of what was really expensive phones a couple of years ago. So they need a shiny OS driving them.

If Google wanted to copy what Apple has been doing they could start selling a clone - the gPhone. But is Google really a hardware company? No, not really. As I understand it Google is trying to get Android to be the OS that other companies will want as the OS in their phones. Not Google's phones but their phones. In order to make that happen they have to give up total control.

Apple will probably be able to continue selling sexy expensive phones and make a great profit doing so. I think Google wants Android to be the OS that powers the rest of market. Look out Symbian.

Submission + - Dell to offer Open Source bundles (ostatic.com)

Submitted by ruphus13 on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @02:55PM

ruphus13 writes: Dell has been offering Linux-based machines for a while, especially its Server-class machines. Now, Dell has decided that there are several Open Source applications that ready for mainstream consumers. From the post, "While we've all been speculating about whether Dell is working on Android netbooks, the computer hardware and software vendor was busy bundling open source applications to offer to small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers looking for low cost alternatives to commercial software. The pre-configured "SMB-in-a-box" software is only available in the U.S. for now, but Dell expects to lauch a similar offering in Asia by the end of 2009...Although no specifics have been given about which apps are inlcuded in Dell's first bundle, it is aimed at the retail sector." It is going to be interesting to see what Dell picks as the 'must-have' applications for the SMB market.

Submission + - First Extra-Galactic Planet Detected? (universetoday.com)

Submitted by

Nancy Atkinson

on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:55AM

Nancy Atkinson writes: "Using a technique called Pixel-lensing, a group of astronomers in Italy may have detected a planet orbiting another star. But this planet is unique among the 300-plus exoplanets discovered so far, as it and its parent star are in another galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy, to be exact. Technically, the star in M31 was found to have a companion about 6 times the mass of Jupiter, so it could be either a brown dwarf or a planet. But either way, this is a remarkable feat, to find an object of that size in another galaxy."

Comment Nonsense (Score 5, Informative) 443

by Skitsnack on Saturday April 18, 2009 @10:43PM (#27632719) Attached to: Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm?

I live in Stockholm, please tell me where I can sign up for a 100Mb/s connection for $11/month. The blog post is pure nonsense. The uplink speed is not really that interesting. Sure you can get a connection with that kind of uplink but how does that differ from a 1Gb/s service? Hell I can sell you a 10Gb/s service for 12$/month. It won't connect anywhere but it will give you a really cool uplink and you will a nice 10Gb/s to all my other customers in your appartment.

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