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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ubuntu Edge: smartphone with a Touch of Android

Officially announced by CEO Mark Shuttleworth on July 22, this year, Ubuntu Edge is a hybrid next-generation device designed as a high concept smartphone to be built by Canonical Ltd.

Ubuntu Touch is the operating system developed for Ununtu Edge, and unveiled at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where it was declared winner of CNET's Best of Show, finishing ahead of Firefox OS.

The idea behind this particular design is producing a phone that will be ready to tackle the future of computing, as well as drive innovation to the mobile industry. Launching something like this has the idea of convergence written all over it, since it will be combining the mobility of a smartphone and the power of a desktop on a single device.

This will be the first time Canonical gets into the smartphone business, and although they claim no interest in competing with the giants, the moment could not be better for rising the level of smartphone capabilities an even higher echelon, and to start coming up with tremendous technology for everyone to benefit from.

Some of the features this device will be loaded with include, a scratchless saphire glass monitor cover, 4.5 inch 1280 x 720 display the fastest available multi-core processor, 4GB of RAM, 128 GB for storage, or a body made out of a single piece of textured metal. It will also have two LTE antennas for full speed 4G, which will work both in Europe and America. The thinner and lighter battery is expected to come with silicon anode technology.

The monitor is supposed to have the best combination of

Ubuntu TV looks promising

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has a newcomer with quite an appearance. It is a TV, GNU Linux Ubuntu style, that intends to compete with similar offers by Google, Apple, LG, Sony and Samsung, with the idea of eventually entering into consumer's lives, or at least in their homes.

The Canonical product proposes a mix of features worth checking out like integration with smartphones running Android, Ubuntu or iOS. That is something we would really like to see, especially considering that what they are showing right now is only a proof of concept, not an actual product debut. The idea would be to embed the Ubuntu Operating System into TV's and

Facebook and Amazon plan to sell smartphones

While Android has proven to be tremendously successful for Google, Facebook is intending to compete for the enormous advertising market, as well as for similar opportunities which the search giant is enjoying at this moment.

The critical thing for the user to consider has to do with the well known issues and challenges in terms of security that the everyone would potentially face knowing that the much talked about

Microsoft launching new TV service

In order to compete with Apple's iTV and Google TV, services anounced earlier, Microsoft is entering the Internet TV arena which looks every time more competitive and promising.

There are infinite possibilities for all three, and others to come, if we consider the increasing computing power of new devices, which allows companies to offer millions of apps and services that will be have to be introduced by this sector, which is starting to shake up due to the impact internet will most likely

Google Voice initiative

Google is offering free phone calls from within the United States and people are taking advantage of this service. Some people have also placed calls from Europe to the States using PCs or other devices, and it seems there is no charge either. The idea is nice for the company, if it later will be used to gain a greater

Heavy competition drives Fujitso - Toshiba merger in mobile phone market

Aiming to become the leading supplier in Japan, the merger is to be completed by October 1, 2010. So far, the two companies hace been supplying phones that are re-branded by others.

Based on the state of the japanese economy, more mergers like this one are expected.

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Apple blocking rivals from accessing its apps

In an sudden move, Appple has decided to block some rival brands from accessing its apps.

One of these is iTunes which Palm Pre is able to synch with. This is one of the ways Palm was planning on going after Apple, even though it was predictably hard to do.