Tablet Skirmish Heats Up With Toshiba Entry

by Kimberly Hill on September 3, 2010

Toshiba has announced its own entrant into the tablet market with the Folio 100, which will run on the Android 2.2 operating system. Sporting a screen just over 10 inches, the device will be larger than other early competitors to Apple’s iPad tablet computer, such as the Dell Streak. The Folio will debut in late October in Europe as a standalone device with WiFi capability.


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Medical FLOSS Repository: An update from Medfloss.org

by LXer Linux News on September 3, 2010

As you might know Medfloss.org (formerly medfoss.apfelkraut.org) tries to provide a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects for the health care domain. After the initial launch 6 months ago it recen…


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Finally We Get to Read the Mobility Assets Sale Agreement with Darl McBride

September 3, 2010

Groklaw: “Darl’s purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement.”

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Linux Professional Institute Launches "Community Corner" with Jon "maddog" Hall

September 3, 2010

(São Paulo, Brazil: September 2, 2010) – The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an upcoming blog to report on wider activities within the LPI community of Linux prof…

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New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory

September 3, 2010

dexmachina writes “A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College London, has released calculations that show string theory makes specific, testable predictions about the behaviour of quantum entangled particles. Professor Mike Duff, lea…

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8 of the Best Free Linux Personal Information Managers

September 3, 2010

LinuxLinks: “Now, let’s explore the 8 PIM tools tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.”

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Facebook To Add Remote Logout

September 3, 2010

angry tapir writes “Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. The social-networking company is rolling out a new security feature that lets users see which computers and devices are logged into their Faceb…

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Examples of MySQL Daemon Plugin

September 3, 2010

In the previous article, A look inside a MySQL Daemon plugin, we were introduced to the MySQL Plugin API. It talked about the most simple plugin type—Daemon plugins. It starts with the basic structure of a plugin—what a plugin declaration should lo…

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CodeWeavers open invitation to Wine-Doors and other closed projects users

September 3, 2010

Wine-Reviews: “A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message “Very very broken and I don’t have time to fix it”"

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Samsung attacks the iPad

September 3, 2010

Many of the facts about Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Android tablet were already available before IFA, but today’s presentation at the consumer electronics fair in Berlin did offer a further few surprises: The 7 inch device includes a fully functional mobile p…

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