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Intel and Ericsson hook up on mobile Internet devices October 21 2008 - 1:46 pm EDT Phil Carson There's a land grab underway in MIDs and two high-tech giants will join forces to exploit it.

October 21, 2008 - 3 hours, 56 minutes ago Share Comments I had the pleasure of meeting many of the "giants" of Linux not too long ago.

The $US100 Hot-E PC and, inset, John and Jeanne Nicholls at a trade fair in Sydney.

Once a young university student's hobby, the Linux operating system has been embraced by the giants of computing, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Linus Torvalds was studying at the University of Helsinki in ...

The codename Jaunty Jackalope was revealed by no other than Mark Shuttleworth himself and will be out in April, making it Ubuntu 9.04.

According to Shuttleworth, Ubuntu is ready to compete with Desktop giants Windows and OS X and expects it to be shipped with millions of computers this coming year.

OpenICE.org, a community of engineers, hackers, and users, launches today going up against two giants in the mobile computing industry, Microsoft, with its Sync product and Intel with their moblin based car infotainment platform.

One Laptop Per Child News: "Thanks to a "we don't sell small quantities" approach at OLPC , the government of Chile was rejected when they wanted to buy 900 test XOs."

At the moment, Ubuntu is the giant of the Linux world. If giants are always being toppled, and if you read any of the social networking sites such as Digg, you might get the impression that gOS is just about to do that.

The US outsourcing giants will be knocked off their throne by the emerging Indian powerhouses by 2011, according to analysts at Gartner.

Bruce Perens, one of the giants of the linux and OSS community, is trying to obtain a seat on the Open Source Initiative's executive board.

This body is overly-represented by commercial interests, and Bruce would like to bring a different POV.