Appistry's Bob Lozano to
Present at SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
& Expo
Gabe wrote: Get it done
Bob!
May. 14, 2008 10:50 PM
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Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System
It includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Maps, YouTube, Firefox, Skype, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3
By: James Hamilton
May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM
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Dubbed the CloudBook, the thing uses a 1.2GHz VIA C7 processor and promises an average five-hours operation off a lithium-ion battery. It's equipped with a 7-inch TFT display (800 x 480 native resolution), 30GB internal storage, 512MB memory, digital video output, a 4-in-1 card reader and a 1.3MP webcam. The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3.
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Everex, whose $199 gOS-based gPC desktop sold out at Wal-Mart in record time late last year, has now introduced a gOS-based 2lb ultra-mobile laptop that it plans to sell at Wal-Mart for $399 starting January 25.
Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source ISV -
and a key
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airpor
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologie
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
target 
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support. App
