MeeGo will become Tizen, Intel announced today. Tizen is a new open source project for mobile operating system based on Linux. Intel and Samsung are jointly backing the effort. Why not just evolve MeeGo? The future belongs to HTML5-based applications, says the Meego community blog. The Tizen application programming interfaces are based on HTML5. APIs [...]
Amazon took the wraps off its new color tablet, the $200 Kindle Fire, during a press event in New York City on Wednesday. C/Net, Techmeme, Google News and Blog Runner have the latest. The Kindle Fire is equipped with a 7-inch display and will have access to all of Amazon’s services including AmazonMP3, Amazon Prime, [...]
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General Motors’s OnStar has reversed it course and now says it won’t collect data on the driving habits of customers who cancel their subscriptions. It reverses a policy shift that drew protests from three U.S. senators. In a statement Tuesday, OnStar said that it had decided to abandon the move in response to consumer privacy [...]
Sprint is already installing LTE equipment and has been field testing the network in select areas, reports C/Net. The company hopes to launch commercial service by the end of the first quarter, although it’s unclear how many markets will get the service initially. According to C/Net, Sprint plans to use Nextel’s 800 MHz spectrum for [...]
For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device —a stingray— were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Harris StingRay II, one of several devices dubbed ‘stingrays’ are [...]
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