Oracle to Compete With Red Hat for Linux Support

 info @ 4:26 pm   

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has announce that the company will be offering full suport for Linux under a new “Unbreakeable Linux” campaign. Oracle will start offering patches, security fixes, and backports for Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases 3 and 4.

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Time Warner, the giant US media group, is considering the sale or demerger of AOL

 info @ 3:44 pm   

AOL probably feels pretty unwanted.

I have never been a big fan of AOL ever since it took more than hour for me to cancel their lousy service.

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Google gives Writely and Spreadsheets a common platform

 info @ 9:46 pm   

Writely.com officially redirects to Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

Perhaps these new beta applications together could be referred to as Google Office. These new services allow anyone to create word-processing and spreadsheet documents. The documents have the ability to be shared publicly and collaborated between multiple users.

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D-Link Introduces a Linux Mobile Phone

 info @ 6:37 pm   

For those of you who desire a completely customizable phone, D-Link has just announced that it will ship new a phone with a Linux operating system in Q1 of 2007.

The phone is reported to work with an GSM-GPRS SIM card from traditional GSM service providers.

So do you plan on getting one as soon as it comes out? You may not want one at first – the price tag is $600.

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