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Submission + - Electronic Arts delays OS X games (vnunet.com)

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on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:55PM

pete314 writes: "Electronic Arts has broken its WWDC promise to launch games for OS X on the same day as the Windows version. Yesterday's Madden 2008 launch went without an OS X version, and Mac users are also still waiting for Battlefield 2142 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Submission + - Apple Unable to Find iPhone Partner in Europe? (vnunet.com)

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on Friday June 15, 2007 @04:55PM

pete314 writes: "A Vnunet.com article claims that European mobile operators are unwilling to concede to Apple iPhone partnership demands. Several operators went as far as to say they "will never offer the iPhone." In the US Verizon has reportedly passed on the device, and AT&T is rumored to have engaged in a revenue sharing deal that includes monthly payments to Cupertino."

Submission + - Red Hat develops Online Desktop

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on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:57PM

pete314 writes: "Red Hat is planning to compete with Microsoft on the desktop by building an "online desktop" that will integrate local data with online services, the company unveiled at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: "To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm in an open source model will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.""

Submission + - Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC

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on Monday December 04, 2006 @06:49PM

pete314 writes: "Microsoft has been provided with a number of test models of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child computers and is trying to get Windows Installed on them. The current design runs an custom version of Red Hat's Fedora Linux distro. Running Windows will take quite some additional memory: the OLPC has 512Mb of Flash, where XP requires a minimum of 1.5Gb storage."

Submission + - Open source databases '60 per cent cheaper'

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on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @04:23PM

pete314 writes: "Open source databases can cut the total cost of ownership of a database by up to 60%, compared to the cost of running proprietary databases from Oracle, Microsoft or IBM. According to data collected by Forrester Research, the savings average about 50 per cent. Open source databases however still struggle to reach mission critical enterprise applications because enterprises perceive them to be less secure and stable."

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