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Mandriva Returning to Community

In a blog post today Mandriva COO Jean-Manuel Croset announced that the new strategy going forward will be to let “the distribution evolve in and under the caring responsibility of the community.” Mandriva SA will, of course, be a part of this entity. …

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Delayed HTC EVO 4G LTE Might Finally Get Here May 23

HTC’s One X and EVO 4G LTE are both held up in customs right now. Patent trouble. But according to updates folks who preordered the Sprint phone, the EVO 4G LTE has a tentative date of May 23. More »…

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Judge tells Apple and HTC to Start Talking Settlement

The order comes after two key HTC smartphones are stopped at the border as a result of their ongoing dispute. [Read more]…

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Android: What, Me Fragmented?

There are nearly 4,000 different types of devices running Android, OpenSignalMaps has found. More than 1,300 of them have custom ROMs that tweak the android.build model. Android brands are almost as diverse as the models, OpenSignalMaps discovered. Fur…

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Rocks Releases Mamba

The latest version of Rocks cluster distribution – an open source toolkit for real and virtual clusters – has been released.

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Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories this Week

This week’s open source cloud headlines yielded the not-so-suprising news that NASA will discontinue support for the OpenStack cloud platform it helped engineer. The reason? OpenStack is now receiving commercial support and the agency’s funds are best …

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Android Skins Refuse to Go Away

After years of trying and failing to discourage manufacturers from adding user interface (UI) layers to Android, Google appeared destined for success with the visually refined Android 4.0 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”). Despite predictions that ICS would kill …

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Android Rules the Smartphone Market, and Samsung Rides the Wave

It’s official: Android smartphones are dominating the overall smartphone market. Researchers from Gartner report that Android phones represented 56 percent of the global smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, while Apple’s iPhone was next…

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Which Devices Have Ice Cream Sandwich?

It’s mid-May — do you know where your Ice Cream Sandwich update is? Six months after Android 4.0 made its debut on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, millions of owners of legacy Android devices are still anxiously awaiting the day the new firmware gets downlo…

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iPad Mini to Debut During Second Half of 2012, Claims Report

New iPad mini intel suggests the tablet will hit the market in the third or fourth quarter as Apple has lined up suppliers for the LCD panel. [Read more]…

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