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Seesmic on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android

Charbax — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:28:15 +0000

Here is a demonstration at LeWeb conference in Paris of the Seesmic application for Android running on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, the worlds first Android Tablet with a 800×480 medium density 4.8″ touch screen and even with a 720p HDMI output. This video was filmed by John Yamasaki @jyamasaki of Seesmic using the Flip HD.

Sugar on a Stick Blueberry v2 introduced by Walter Bender of Sugar Labs

Charbax — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:38:15 +0000

This is a video-interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs at Netbook World Summit in Paris. Sugar is the Gnu/Linux based OS running in over 1.5 million OLPC XO-1 laptops used by Children around the world. It is the Linux distribution that popularized Linux on Laptop form factors. As I wrote in http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/olpc_netbook_impact_on_laptop.html the OLPC project has greatly influenced the whole PC/Laptop industry, and with more optimized and streamlined Linux implementations like this new Sugar Linux OS, the influence is only going to be even greater.

Blumpit is a new touch screen tablet user interface for web contents and web browsing

Charbax — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:28:05 +0000

Blumpit works as a Firefox plugin and could soon also work as a Chrome Browser extension, to provide a bunch of user interface options on top of the browser and on top of any OS be it Windows, Linux or Mac. It could also work on cheap ARM powered laptops runing any type of Linux that can run a compatible Firefox or Chrome Browser with plugins or extensions support. Installing the Blump’it features is just a one-click process.

Linux on Netbooks at the Netbook World Summit in Paris

Charbax — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:20:28 +0000

Industry Linux overview by Linux experts Aaron J. Seigo, Community leader at the KDE Foundation and Arnaud Laprévote, CTO Chief Technology Officer at Mandriva Linux. They provide information on the status of Linux for ARM powered laptops and analyse the influence of Linux on the Laptop industry with the advent of the Netbooks.

ARM Freescale Smartbooks and Smartphones

Charbax — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:44:46 +0000

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.

Wistron Pbook booting up and using its basic features

Charbax — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:42:05 +0000

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

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

Charbax — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:35:14 +0000

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.

Aria Ablecom Home Server

Charbax — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:32:58 +0000

bsquare embedded software

Charbax — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:55:00 +0000

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

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

Charbax — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:05:49 +0000

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.