Intel, Samsung, the Linux Foundation and a number of other companies are working together to develop a Linux-based operating system for phones and tablets called Tizen. It relies on web technologies such as HTML5, which makes developing apps for the platform a lot like developing for the web. But like any new platform, there probably […]
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How to install (barely functional) Android on the HP TouchPad
After weeks of internal strife, the members of the TouchDroid team called it quits yesterday, effectively putting an end to that particular effort to port Google Android to run on the HP TouchPad tablet. The one good thing to come out of the ashes is that former TouchDroid member fnj001 publicly released everything the team […]
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Roundup of Linux distributions that play (mostly) well with the HP 2133
The HP Mini 2133 Mini-Note was my second netbook. I picked one up in early 2008, after being drawn in by the attractive case, keyboard, and high resolution 1280 x 768 pixel display. But I quickly found that the VIA C7-M processor and Chrome graphics in the netbook caused a little bit of a speedbump. […]
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Google Chrome netbook OS could make its way to tablets
While Google’s Android operating system was designed for smartphones, it seems to be a fairly popular OS choice among tablet makers. A fair number of prototypes I saw at CES this year were running Android, and you can already pick up an Archos 5 Internet Tablet running the mobile operating system. But it looks like […]
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Dell offers easy fix for Inspiron Mini partition error
Some early adopters who ordered Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks with Ubuntu Linux and solid state disks larger than 4GB may have noticed that only 4GB of storage was available. No, Dell didn’t try to shortchange you by shipping a 4GB disk instead of the 8GB or 16GB model you ordered. Rather, the company used […]