OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...

Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distribution that is quite useable and easy to install. Based on debian and GNOME, ubuntu offers extensive hardware recognition combined with a functional desktop environment complete with a suite of office applications. While at Linuxworld in San Francisco, I had a chat ...

Canonical COO Jane Silber speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about collaborations between enterprise and open source software. Silber says the cooperative model is the inevitable wave of the future.

There are over 4 million Linux-based mobile phones in China. Linux phones are quietly making their way to the U.S., and at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Karsten Homann of TrollTech, and Jim Cook of PalmSource. Their companies and others are designing ...

In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Xensource CEO Peter Levine, says though only 6 percent of new servers feature virtualization, its influence in the future of data center management is inevitable.

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In 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance company, sought solutions to the increasing costs of data and software. In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Guru Vasudeva, Nationwide’s AVP and enterprise chief architect, explains how the company used virtualization and Linux environments to save ...

Intel’s Richard Wirt continues his talk on the evolution of grid computing and real world applications with guest Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse who featured some real time virtualization demos. This is the 2nd of 2 parts from his keynote address at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco.

Richard Wirt, general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group and a senior fellow at Intel, talks about Linux and highlights the evolution of grid computing and real world applications. He was joined by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt to talk about key trends in IT management and how virtualization ...

Greg Besio, Motorola’s corporate VP of mobile devices software, talks about Linux in the mobile world, and demos two Linux-based mobile phones popular in China: The Ming and the ROKR E2. The 1st of 2 parts from his keynote address at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in ...

Greg Besio, Motorola’s brings on Christy Wyatt, VP for ecosystem and market development at Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business to discuss the latest on MOTODEV and the new places Motorola hopes to take the mobile world. The 2nd of 2 parts from the keynote address at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in ...

Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig questions whether or not free culture can remain free, and proposes personal involvement in the political process if creative freedom is to thrive. The 3rd of 3 parts from his keynote address at LinuxWorld.

Larry Lessig talks about how we’ve gone from a READ WRITE society to a READ ONLY society and how a more open licensing environment can encourage creativity, while maintaining manageable rights. Part 2 of 3 parts from a keynote lecture at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco.

At LinuxWorld & Expo in San Francisco, Stanford Law Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society Lawrence Lessig spoke at the opening keynote address of the conference about the role of Open Source in a world rapidly shrinking creative rights.

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Jason Perlow is Contributing Editor at Linux Magazine and talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the importance of LinuxWorld 2006 and about new developments in Linux for enterprise as well as computing in the developing world.

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