We’re pretty comfortable with the idea of open source software running on computers and mobile phone — heck, even guitars — but cars? That one we’re still warming up to, but this concept vehicle from EDAG definitely helps. As its name implies, the Light Car – Open Source lets developers modify and / or improve upon the auto’s technologies —
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Marvell has the technology and the vision, and if the company gets its way the world will soon be overrun by lilliputian Linux machines. Hiding in wall warts and the like, these guys will begin quietly taking over tasks that we once relegated to servers and desktop machines. To this end, the company has just announced that they’ll be making
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plaYce which showcased at last year’s Techcrunch50 is today announcing the beta launch of its Game-Platform-as-a-Service, aimed at assisting game developers bring high-quality 3D game play right into the browser. Games in plaYce are based on 3D renderings of real cities such as San Francisco and New York.
500 private beta invites for both users and developers are available exclusively
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Ruslan Kogan, the Australian who built up our hopes only to let them down recently with his make believe Agora, is back with more outlandish promises, and for whatever reason, we think he actually expects us to just believe him this time. During a recent interview, Kogan noted that he would like to be taking orders for a Linux-based netbook
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Android may be doing its best to exterminate Linux on the mobile platform, but a dedicated group of fans is doing its best to keep it alive and on the move. One of those is a G1 user by the handle ghostwalker who managed to get a full X-Windows environment running on his handset. Building on the already working Debian
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By Randall Spangler, Software Engineer – Client Tools Team
If you’ve ever worked on a cross-platform software project, you know how often changes made on one platform break the build on other platforms. If you’re using native project files (Xcode on Mac, makefiles on Linux, etc.), every developer needs access to every platform just to add a single source file.
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Google may be having its share of recessionary stumbles, but compared to most of techdom it’s still smooth sailing over in Mountain View. And apparently that’s enough to make everyone want to sue. Three potential legal threats are looming in the news today around Google: One deemed a non-issue, another that should be deemed a non-issue, and one a very
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We were really impressed with Texas Instruments’ OMAP 3-based mobile development platform when we saw it running Android earlier today, and the hardware seems to hold up well to all sorts of video-accelerated magic for a multitude of Linux-based interfaces. Not so much with Windows Mobile 6.5. Granted, this is a very early build of the OS according to Microsoft,
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We just got a great look at the potential of Android on Texas Instruments’ new Zoom OMAP34x-II Mobile Development Platform, a sort of sexy cousin to Compulab’s exeda. The OMAP3430-powered unit is being built by Logic and is meant for software developers to work on the OMAP3 chipset, but it’s actually a pretty neat “device” in its own right, with
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When we first laid eyes on Freescale’s five-core i.MX515 processor this January, we hoped it was all it claimed to be — promising an extremely cool machine with a low power budget and a price point that’ll take your next netbook down near the fabled $199 range. So far, so good: the Pegatron machines we peeped at CES fit the
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While Acer unveiled its plan to launch a pair of Android phones this year via the slightly ancient pen-and-paper method, Samsung used an even trustier method: spoken word. According to Reuters, the company’s head of product strategy Won-Pyo Hong affirmed that Sammy would sell “more than three” Android phones by the end of this year, and furthermore, it would “definitely”
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Right around this time last year, Texas Instruments was busy showing off its OMAP 3 platform, which enabled 720p playback from a mobile phone. At this year’s MWC, we’ve got a real live handset recording 720p, and TI upping the ante once more with a chip that handles 1080p. For those still with us after being blasted with resolutions, the
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Clarion’s ClarionMiND MID / PND has been a long time coming but, with the first few non-3G-equipped units now out there in the wild, we’re finally starting to get some reviews of the device, one of which comes from the folks at Mobile Tech Review. As you might expect, there’s quite a bit of compromises to be found both as
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Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.
While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most
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Posted by Benjamin Schirmer, Software Engineer (and recent Google intern)
Following the release of the Gmail gadget, we now present a completely new version of the Google Calendar gadget for Google Desktop. If you want to easily keep track of your upcoming appointments right from your desktop, this new version has a cleaner interface, fully supports Google Apps calendars, and includes
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AskDaveTaylor.com offers tech support Q&A on subjects ranging from mp3 players to Linux to AdSense. We recently chatted with founder Dave Taylor about his site and his AdSense experience.
Inside AdSense: Where did the idea for your ‘Ask Dave Taylor’ site come from?
Dave Taylor: There’s a great backstory, actually. I’ve written twenty different books on various business and technical topics,
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Post by Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer – Engineering Productivity Team
Since we open-sourced the Google C++ Testing Framework in July 2008, many people have asked us when we will release a mocking framework to go with it. You asked, we listened; today we released the Google C++ Mocking Framework under the New BSD License. It is inspired by popular Java
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By Pawel Solyga, Summer of Code Administrator for the NUI Group
The Natural User Interface Group (NUI Group) is an interactive media group focused on research and creation of open source machine sensing techniques, such as voice/handwriting/gesture recognition and touch computing, to benefit artistic and educational applications. Additionally, the NUI Group is a world wide community offering a collaborative environment for
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By James Yum, Developer Programs Team
The Google Desktop team has been steadily releasing our Desktop gadget (widget) creations as Open Source for the past few years. If you check out this list, you can see most of the official Google created gadgets are actively maintained by the Google Desktop developer community. We had many good reasons for opening this code
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By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team
You may recall some of our previous posts about Google employee contributions to Open Source during their 20% time. While many engineers spend their 20% time on releasing code created internally at Google, many more spend their time contributing to external projects just to scratch their own itch. We’re pleased to bring you some updates
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