Open Source

Samsung Predicts One Million Galaxy Tab Sales This Year

Samsung is making a bold prediction that it will shift 1 million Galaxy Tab tablets in 2010, as well 20…

14 years ago

Twitter Improves Performance With Updated Android App

Twitter has given its Android app a makeover so that it is now faster and features a new tweet details…

14 years ago

Facebook Mobile Apps Refreshed For iPhone And Android

New smartphone apps from Facebook add single sign-on to iPhones and Androids, along with Deals for the iPhone

14 years ago

German Developers Defect From OpenOffice Project

German developers behind OpenOffice.org have jumped from the Oracle-backed ship to the newly independent LibreOffice project

14 years ago

Creative Sounds Out The Android Tablet Market

Creative has made a surprising entry into the tablet market with two models based on Android 2.1

14 years ago

EU Chips In To Fund Symbian With €22 million

Symbian lives on with joint funding by the European Union and a new Symbeose consortium

14 years ago

Android Downloads Gain Lookout’s Mobile Security Support

Lookout's Privacy Advisor application allows security-minded users to scan every Android app they download

14 years ago

Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel

An analysis of Google Android Froyo's open source kernel has uncovered 88 flaws that could expose users' data

14 years ago

iSuppli: Samsung Galaxy Tab Beats iPad On Manufacturing Costs

Samsung's Galaxy Tab may not be starting a price war with the iPad in the UK, but it costs substantially…

14 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Tab Hits UK Streets

Samsung's Galaxy Tab his on sale in the UK but it's not going to start a price war with Apple's…

14 years ago

Apple Hits Motorola With Multitouch Lawsuit

Apple has accused Motorola of allegedly infringing on its patents related to multitouch technology with its Android smartphones

14 years ago

Google Nexus Two Rumours Add Specs

Specs have emerged for Google's supposed Nexus, along with a rumoured US operator - T-Mobile

14 years ago

Acer To Launch Tablets In November

The boss of Acer has revealed that its portfolio of Android and Windows-based tablets will launch in November

14 years ago

Google Nexus Two Sounds Like A Galaxy Refresh

The new grey for Google is a shiny black Samsung Galaxy S update. Or is it?

14 years ago

Google Nexus Two Rumours: Samsung Or Motorola?

Google said there would be no Nexus Two, but rumours say Samsung or Motorola may be making one

14 years ago

Barnes & Noble Shows Off Colour Nook E-Reader

Barnes & Noble has showed off its new full-colour Nook e-reader that runs the Android operating system

14 years ago

Hackers Exploit Firefox Flaw On Nobel Site

A Norwegian security firm has warned that a new Trojan malware has infected the Nobel Peace Prize website

14 years ago

Symbian Foundation Faces Possible Closure

But Symbian critic, Nick Jones of Gartner, say the operating system will be better off without the Foundation

14 years ago

Google Nexus Two Rumoured From Carphone Warehouse

Carphone Warehouse could sell a successor to Google's Nexus One phone this year, according to rumours

14 years ago

Android Hits 100K Apps Milestone, 200K Less Than iPhone

The Google Android Market app count reaches the 100,000 mark, a week after Apple's iOS topped 300,000 apps

14 years ago

Smartphone Market Growth Bubble Driven By Apple, BlackBerry And HTC

Apple, HTC and RIM lead a smartphone market growing at an “extraordinary” pace but analyst says this growth will not…

14 years ago

Open Source: Pick Your Projects With Care

Open source really is taking over the enterprise, says Matthew Sarrel. But you still have to choose carefully which projects…

14 years ago

Samsung Prepares Android-Based Galaxy Media Player

Apple's media player market share with the iPod Touch could be threatened by Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Player 50

14 years ago

Programmers Code Down At Qt Developer Days 2010

Nokia's CTO Rich Green joined executives at the Qt Developer conference last week to spell out the company's 2011 roadmap…

14 years ago

Is Criticism Of Android’s Openness Justified?

According to Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, Android is being manipulated by operators. A Facebook engineer complaining about openness? Hmm... says…

14 years ago

Windows Phone 7 Launch: No Queues, Faint Praise

No queues for devices running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, and big reviewers were lukewarm

14 years ago

Android 3.0 Gingerbread To Feature Video Chat

Android version 3.0 (the Gingerbread build) is to undergo a major revamp of its user interface and promises video chat

14 years ago

Symbian Head Quits Citing ‘Personal Reasons’

Further turmoil for the Symbian mobile operating system after it emerged that the executive director has stepped down, citing 'personal…

14 years ago

Microsoft Reports Over Six Million Java Attacks In Q3

Six million attacks in the third quarter of 2010 targeted just three Java vulnerabilities, Microsoft reported

14 years ago

FSF Fights BSA Over EC Support For Open Standards

The Free Software Foundation has accused the BSA of sabotaging the EC's support for open standards

14 years ago