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Gphone in - Naysayers out

Finally the cat is out of the bag about the long-anticipated rumors about Google entering the cellphone race.

They officially announced the Android open-source cellphone platform they are developing allowing anyone to develop their own cellphone. I can see it now; the hottest item on eBay next year will be a do-it-yourself Gphone kit.

Soon the day will come when new devices will surface with embedded cellphone capabilities. Some 40 years after Maxwell Smart amused us with his famous shoephone, it may become a reality.


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Big win for Open Source - Linux

SCO finally got put in it’s place. The “Linux” company that has lawsuits as it main source of income and business model. Have they actually made any money from selling anything? If thye have, it’s minimal.

A federal judge in Utah ruled that Novell actually has rights to the Unix kernel that SCO is suing IBM over. Furthermore, the judge went a step beyond the ruling by stating that Novell could actually force SCO to drop the suit against IBM for on UNIX copyright issues.

A great ruling for the open source community in general.

Read the full story here - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technology/11novell.htm


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