One Laptop Per Child, the organization that brought the world the ultra-affordable XO laptop is out with a new version, the XO-3, a tablet designed for outdoor use, which can run both Android and its own Sugar OS. The new version uses less juice and runs faster (though it’s no speedball). The new system will [...]
Utilizing a blend of Wi-Fi, HSPA+ 3G, femtocells and its all-fiber backbone, Free Mobile in France will offer unlimited voice, texting and data over the mobile networks — for free, says GigOm. Bring your own iPhone. Xavier Niel is the founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service, explains Om Malik. French Internet service [...]
A planned Hacker Satellite System would fight Web censorship, reports the BBC. The group wants to send their own satellites into orbit, which will be open and free from Internet censorship. The project’s organizers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites. [...]
British Telecom is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit which says that the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the telecoms company’s key patents. The lawsuit, filed in the state of Delaware, relates to six patents which BT says are infringed by the Google Maps, Google Music, location-based [...]
Mashable has a nice infographic explaining the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which is stirring up a lot of controversy. Companies that rely heavily on copyright protection call the bill piracy protection; while those that rely on user-generated content call it censorship. The bill strengthens the U.S. Justice Department’s power to go after websites that [...]
HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community. By combining the innovative webOS platform with the development power of the open source community, there is the opportunity to significantly improve applications and web services for the next generation of devices, said Hewlett-Packard today. webOS is said to offer a [...]
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