News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now ( Read more... )

Seems like the market for low-cost Linux-based laptops is just a teeny bit bigger than was previously thought:
Since its launch in October 2007, Eee PCs have shipped more than 1 million units, as of the end of March, and Asustek is optimistic that it will reach its goal of shipping 5 million units of the low-cost notebooks in 2008, the sources said ( Read more... )

Spent much of the past couple of days playing with Cathryn's new EeePC. It's a wonderful device, a typically solid, well thought out Asus design. And it's so small! Though admittedly that just makes it look exactly the right size when I see it perched on Cathryn's lap, since as we all know, she's a teeny speck herself ( Read more... )

Rather huge news in the Linux world today: Nokia is buying Trolltech (developers of the basic stuff behind the KDE desktop)! This is huge in two ways:

1. It signal major investment in KDE's future
2. It signals Nokia's intention to move away from using Symbian as the OS in its phone, and move towards Linux instead

For those of you who still think the ( Read more... )

Been playing around with some software recently (see previous mail re security software), and thought I'd mention a couple of cool things:

• Opera Mini 4: still in beta, but now working really nicely on my Nokia e61. Pretty much gives me full web access on the phone. So far it's handled everything I've thrown at it, and it seems incredibly fast for a ( Read more... )