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Openmoko's Smartphone Is Open Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google Nokia Makes Symbian Royalty-Free CRM: Open Source and Nonprofit EU Misses Mark on Software Diversity Flock Releases New Test Version Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone that really is open, literally and figuratively. Consumers can take it apart and developers can focus on specific markets. Nokia's Symbian purchase may play right into Google's hands, helping to nurture a blossoming of the mobile Web and spur demand for cell-phone apps -- and most important, the ads sold by Google. Nokia has acquired the remainder of Symbian for $410 million and opened the popular mobile platform to challenge Google's Android, Microsoft's Open Windows, and even Apple's iPhone. Two of the hottest growth areas in today's new wave of customer-relationship management are solutions for niche markets and specialty functions, and open-source CRM. MPower provides both. The European Commission, a thorn in Microsoft's side for its antitrust campaigns against the software giant, is falling short in its own internal attempt to promote open-source competition in the tech sector. Developers of "social" Web browser Flock have released a new test version using building blocks from Mozilla, an open-source community in which thousands of people develop free products.   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   Openmoko's Smartphone Is Open   Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google Nokia Makes Symbian Royalty-Free Purchase heats up mobile-phone war.   FULL STORY CRM: Open Source and Nonprofit A look at a new-age CRM provider.   FULL STORY EU Misses Mark on Software Diversity Hasn't moved to open-source products.   FULL STORY Flock Releases New Test Version Incorporates speed, security updates.   FULL STORY How Mozilla's Firefox Beat the Hounds Red Hat Settles Infringement Suit EU Wants Open-Source Standards Firefox 3.0 Voted Best Web Browser Developers Like Android Platform Brazil, India Appeal OOXML Approval New York Commits to Open Formats OLPC: Imperfect, But Changing Lives Firefox 3 Release Candidate Rolls Out Verizon Sets Back Plans for Android Verizon Joins Open LiMo Foundation OpenSolaris Challenges Linux Distros Novell Says SCO Group Owes It $20M HP's Mini-Note Rivals MacBook Trial Starts Today in SCO Lawsuit Windows Upsets One Laptop Group Key Leader Quits OLPC Program MySQL Users Upset by Sun's Plan Red Hat Drops Consumer Desktop Analysts Predict Windows Decline Linux Spending To Exceed $49 Billion Cisco Unveils New Ethernet Switch Adobe Releases AIR for Linux   More on this topic...

How Mozilla's Firefox Beat the Hounds Mozilla's gains level the playing field. Average Rating: Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google More cell-phone apps mean more ads. Average Rating: CRM: Open Source and Nonprofit A look at a new-age CRM provider. Average Rating: Openmoko's Smartphone Is Open Consumer can take device apart. Average Rating: Firefox 3.0 Voted Best Web Browser But will a new IE release challenge it? Average Rating: Nokia Makes Symbian Royalty-Free Purchase heats up mobile-phone war. Average Rating:

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Laptop: The Best Bet in Today's Computer Market Today's market offers ever-more-powerful computers at lower prices, not to mention a generation of cheap, pocket-sized gadgets. In many cases, your best computer choice is likely to be a laptop.   Panasonic Releases Rugged Ultra-Mobile PC Rugged, small and ultra-mobile. That could be the description of a unit of miniature commandos, but it's actually the specs on Panasonic's new Toughbook CF-U1, the latest in its line of durable handhelds.   Panasonic Adds Ultra-Mobile PC to Toughbook Series Panasonic's latest offering in its Toughbook series of rugged laptops is small enough to cradle in one hand, yet strong enough to handle the rough and tumble of extreme environments.

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