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Archive for the 'Software' Category

ARM Freescale Smartbooks and Smartphones

Posted by Charbax on 5th June 2009

Steve Sperle of Freescale introduces the Freescale ARM Cortex A8 powered Smartbook by Pegatron and an Android device by Inventec IAC runing smooth video playback as well.

Posted in Linux, Laptops, Portable Multimedia, Processors, Software, Computex | 1 Comment »

Wistron Pbook booting up and using its basic features

Posted by Charbax on 5th June 2009

Wistron is making a Sony looking ARM Snapdragon based laptop device running Red Flag linux.

Posted in Laptops, Linux, Processors, Software, Computex | Comments »

Nvidia Tegra: Overview by Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit

Posted by Charbax on 3rd June 2009

A complete overview and presentation of Nvidia’s amazing new line of $100-$200 laptops runing Android or Windows CE on an embedded ARM11 processor and Nvidia’s awesome 1080p and advanced 3D graphics capable Nvidia Tegra chipset.

Posted in Laptops, Video games, OLPC, Linux, Software, High Definition, Computex | Comments »

Aria Ablecom Home Server

Posted by Charbax on 3rd June 2009

Posted in Networking, Software, Computex | Comments »

bsquare embedded software

Posted by Charbax on 2nd June 2009

bsquare works with Adobe to provide Adobe Flash support embedded platforms such as Texas Instruments OMAP platforms and other ARM based embedded systems.

Posted in Software, Computex | Comments »

OLPC XO 1.5 in Taipei Part 3: Chris Ball, Lead Software Engineer

Posted by Charbax on 2nd June 2009

Chris Ball, OLPC Lead Software Engineer shows a fully working demonstration of the latest XO 1.5 motherboard fresh from the lab, runing a new faster Sugar Linux OS as well as multi-booting into a full Gnome desktop version of Fedora thanks to the increased storage, processing and RAM, the children will be able to boot a full Linux desktop as well running conventional desktop applications such as Open Office.

Posted in Laptops, OLPC, Software, Computex | Comments »

Mitch Bradley shows and explains Open Firmware

Posted by Charbax on 2nd June 2009

Mitch Bradley, One Laptop Per Child Firmware Lead, shows and explains why the Open Firmware that he created is useful and important not only for the OLPC project but used and important for many other parts of the industry.

Posted in Laptops, OLPC, Linux, Software, Computex | Comments »

Linpus Linux

Posted by Charbax on 19th March 2009

Linpus makes a Linux OS for netbooks shipped by Acer, Quanta and other companies. They are also showing their QuickOS and talking a bit about their roadmap which includes being available for ARM laptops that are coming out.

Youtube links:
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Posted in Laptops, UMPC, Linux, Software, CeBIT | Comments »

IBM Intelligent Education

Posted by Charbax on 19th March 2009

IBM shows off a project to provide students with 3D interactive games for them to learn about history such as to learn about the Virtual Forbidden City in China using 3D charachters and relevant interactive gameplay elements.

Youtube links:
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Posted in IBM Labs, Software, CeBIT | Comments »

SAP Green IT presentation

Posted by Charbax on 19th March 2009

SAP Green IT research to manage the future electric grids and peer-to-peer power generation and distribution.

Youtube links:
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Posted in Software, CeBIT | Comments »