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There’s an amazing variety of Android tablets out there right now. Barnes and Noble are giving their press conference this morning on their new Nook Color, which they’re saying outdoes the coming soon Amazon Fire in terms of a media consumption device. Things are about to start getting real interesting though with the new nVidia …
Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) was the first out of the gate with their version of Linux for the PS3 available on launch day in the US. Next came news of Fedora Core 4 available for installation. Next up is Debian, with their version of Linux available for doanload and install on the PS3. Apparently hardware …
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Despite rumours that a Taiwanese company called Asustek had started assembling PS3s last month, word from Sony is they have still not started production, despite only being 3 months away from a worldwide launch. If they do end up hitting shelves in November, expect the consoles to be in short supply. On the positive side …
This week at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, Jobs was laying heavily into Microsoft and their long awaited XP replacement, Windows Vista. The jokes kept coming, with huge billboard apps showing a large ‘X’ on a disk, and above it read ‘Redmond, we have a problem’, ‘Redmond, start your photocopiers’, ‘Mac OS …
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