Alles over EU to Investigate Google Doubleclick Acquisition | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-11-14 16:03:44
the linux geek writes "Google is undergoing an investigation by the European Union for it's $3.1 billion acquisition of internet advertiser DoubleClick. "We seek to avoid further delays that might put us at a disadvantage in competing fully against Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and others whose acquisitions in the highly competitive online advertising market have already been approved," said Google boss Eric Schmidt. The United States' Federal Trade Commission has been reviewing the acquisition since May."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/184690765/article.pl
Alles over New Google Apps For Linux Coming | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-09-03 11:56:40
techoon writes "The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as the official Linux versions of Google Earth and Google Picasa. This team made an interesting splash during a presentation at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus. The Google presenters claimed some 'significant accomplishments' and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/151559784/article.pl
Alles over FIC's Linux-based Smartphone | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Gizmodo | 2006-11-07 19:16:19
FIC's taking more than just a page from the Linux community with its FIC-GTA001 smartphone—its taking their entire playbook. Hoping to capitalize on what is essentially free programmers for the project, FIC is releasing a Linux-based smartphone complete with an SDK (Software Development Kit). This allows end-users to develop their own programs and functionality for the phone (picture an army of geeks making sure you can play back DivX on your phone).
The phone itself has a 2.8-inch VGA display, USB mesh file sharing, multi-touch sensor recognition, GSM, GPS, 128MB RAM, a Samsung ARM9-based processor and MP3 playback capabilities. The concept of their multi-touch gestures is that you can use two fingers to control a variety of tasks, such as two finger scrolling like the PowerBooks and MacBooks. Some demo pics of the gesture abilities after the jump. Even though the phone will probably only sell to DIY-ers and Linux enthusiasts, there may be some interesting applications that come out of this.
– Jason Chen
FIC Linux Cellphone - can it capture the imagination of the open-source community? [Slashgear]
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/smartphones/fics-linuxbased-smartphone-213016.php
