Spark Linux tablet specs updated, going up for pre-order next week
We already got a brief introduction to the Spark Linux-based tablet, but details were a little sparse.
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Spark Linux tablet specs updated, going up for pre-order next week
webOS Enyo 1.0 now available to all, just requires patch and patience
HP’s Enyo framework is an essential ingredient for allowing new apps to work on webOS devices with different resolutions, but due to some sort of ethnocentric hiccup, v1.0 hasn’t officially reached all international webOS phones and tablets. Fortunately, WebOS Internals has prepared a nice little Preware install package that anyone, anywhere can enjoy. At this point, adding Enyo will only provide access to a few extra apps, but at least the world will be reunited in its preparedness for a glistening future , right?
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Meet Spark, the €200 slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX
As we all know, the Kindle Fire’s hot , Apple’s selling bushels of iPads , and there’s plenty of Honeycomb slates out there for you to choose from, but what if you want a tablet free from corporate influence? Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE’s multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure
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Meet Spark, the €200 slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX
Mozilla to overhaul Firefox’s default home and tab pages
Despite Mozilla kicking its release schedule into overdrive , not all parts of Firefox have gotten the tender love and care they truly deserve. Take for example, the browser’s default homepage, which hasn’t evolved much since its humble beginnings nearly a decade ago.
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HP: Open webOS 1.0 arriving in September, Enyo 2.0 framework free to developers today
When HP announced last month that it would open-source webOS, the outfit seemed mighty pleased (and relieved) to have finally made a definitive decision regarding the fate of its $1.2 billion software experiment. In fact, though, the company’s initial announcement was light on detail, other than the fact that webOS will live on with the help of developers both inside and outside HP
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Pandora handheld approaches full production next month, never gave up hope
Remember the Pandora? Back when the likes of the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS remained conceptual sketches in top secret bunkers, this open-source handheld paired up a clamshell form factor with analogue game controls, a QWERTY keyboard and a dream . It’s been a slow-burning dream; last time we heard from the OpenPandora project, it had managed a limited ( premium-priced ) run, with manufacturing hobbled by problems.
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Pandora handheld approaches full production next month, never gave up hope
Google, MIT bestow App Inventor to the unwashed masses
Google must be feeling generous: it donated Sky Map to undeserving armchair astronomers and it’s letting the great unwashed get at its App Inventor development platform. The software toolset was cooked up in partnership with MIT : a web-based interface that lets anyone build Android apps without getting elbows-deep in code. Those Massachusetts king-geeks won’t be accepting submissions just yet, however: it’s still got to work out how it’s going to deploy the public server and foster a “robust and active open-source project” under its new name: the moderately unimaginative MIT App Inventor.
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Google Sky Map boldly explores open source galaxy
Via its Research Blog, Google has announced the donation of the Sky Map project to the open source community. Originally developed by Googlers during their “20% time,” the stellar application was launched in 2009 to showcase the camera sensors in first generation Android handsets. Four years and over 20 million downloads later, Sky Map’s code will be donated to the people — with Carnegie Mellon University taking the reins on further development through “a series of student projects.” Hit the source link for the official announcement and a bit of nostalgia from Google
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good
First, an apology: Microsoft released details of Windows 8′s tablet hardware requirements back in December, but we were too preoccupied with Christmas and CES to notice. Now that the only thing we’re suffering from is jet-lag, let’s take a quick tour of some notable extracts from the documentation and what it’ll mean for users when the operating system arrives towards the back end of the year.
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good
NASA goes open source with code portal for agency projects
NASA is consolidating it efforts in open source software and offering the world an easier way to peruse its projects by launching code.nasa.gov.
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