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Symbian Foundation says it's on track
The Symbian Foundation is on track to take over Symbian as an open-source operating system in 2010 and will put out its first distribution of software for developers in the first half of next year, its executive director said Thursday.

Opera 10 alpha aces Acid3 browser test
Opera Software ASA Thursday launched a preview of its next browser, Opera 10, that aces the Acid3 Web standards test, a mark that most browser makers have pursued without success.

Money woes redux, more malware, shopping jam
We're just about out of another woeful week as far as economic news goes, what with AT&T and Adobe Systems joining the ever-growing list of companies slashing jobs and Research In Motion and Advanced Micro Devices giving notice that quarterly revenue either will not reach forecasts or will drop. New malware targeting Firefox users was in the news, too. One positive note was that early online holiday-season shopping was robust. But there was a negative side to that as well -- the influx of e-shoppers caught some major online stores off guard and their systems couldn't handle the traffic.

IBM to offer virtualized view of Lotus Notes
IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of the popular Lotus Notes software. The companies claimed that users would be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine.

Two (contrasting) faces of the enterprise IT swoon
There are plenty of predictions that corporate IT spending will shrink next year.

Songbird 1.0 is available for download
Mozilla super fans will be pleased to know that the open source music playing application Songbird has debuted its 1.0 version. It's here to free us from our evil iTunes overlords or something. The biggest selling points seem to be that it's open-source and that it's not the established players.

Second Google Phone 'Agora' Out In January
The world's second Google phone, based on the Android mobile operating system, is set to launch at the end of January. Manufactured under the Australian Kogan brand, the phone will come in two flavors, for $225 or $295.

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$EDITOR: Don Marti

Fun with web stats

Submitted by dmarti on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:12:22 +0000

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