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Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom

Intel Corporation has acquired OpenedHand, a London-based company which specialises in mobile Linux development and services. Read more »

Intel to offer open source developers for OLPC

Intel has partnered with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and will initially provide its army of Linux and open source developers to help improve the OLPC software. Read more »

Red Hat, Intel plan 17 development centres

Intel and Red Hat announced plans on Tuesday to open more than a dozen centres where customers and business partners can make sure their software works well on Linux and the latest hardware. Read more »

Details on Intel's beta Mac development tools

Intel has released betas of its software development tools for Mac OS X running on the Intel architecture. Read more »

Intel + Linux = iPhone killer?

Intel is looking to succeed where others including Noka and Palm have failed to set the world alight, and deliver a Linux-based Internet device by 2010, which could challenge the success of the iPhone. Read more »

Intel to launch Linux-powered mobile Internet device

Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It's based on Linux. Read more »

Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu backer Canonical has pinned down some broad feature lists for its upcoming version of Linux for smaller mobile devices. Read more »

Linux kernel gains serviceability features

The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features. Read more »

Negroponte: Dual-boot OLPC laptop on the way

OLPC found Nicholas Negroponte has hinted a dual boot XO laptop could soon be on the way. Read more »

Google to unveil 'Android' phone software

Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world. Read more »

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Linux maker takes on Windows

SWsoft, whose Virtuozzo software lets several copies of Linux run simultaneously on the same Intel server, plans to expand its reach next year. Read more »

Linux lab hires second guru

A day after Linus Torvalds joined the Open Source Development Lab, the group hires the developer who will assume responsibility for the upcoming 2.6 version of Linux. Read more »

Are you ready for 64-bit architecture development?

Many chipmakers have announced desktop-ready CPU chips based on 64-bit architecture. Will such desktops lead to a migration to 64-bit architecture development in the coming year? And, more importantly, will you be ready for it? Read more »

The FUD war against Linux

Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux. Read more »

The commercial salvation of Linux

According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served? Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes. Read more »

Is Linux on the move?

CIOs have moved from the sidelines to the playing field in the search for a successor to traditional data centre products. Have they found one in Linux? Read more »

Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates. Read more »

Linux creator takes commercial position

Linus Torvalds has been lured from Transmeta to work full-time on the open source Linux operating system. Read more »

Building the Linux business infrastructure

IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »

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Gestation, robots and NASA hacking

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Firefox 3 made it out the door last week, and set a world record while doing so; after 15 years Wine 1.0 also hit the street. We also look at robots, google developer day and outsourcing in this week's Weekly Roundup. Read more »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »

Mixed Emotions

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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