It’s not a matter of which platform is better, it’s a matter of what each brings to the table.
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HTC: expect Desire, Legend and Wildfire to get Froyo ‘beginning in Q3’
It’s summer. It’s hot. Naturally, everyone wants to lick some frozen dessert in one form or another. Shortly after the Nexus One got its absolutely official Android 2.2 update, HTC has once again leaped out to tell us of its own Froyo offering. The Taiwanese mobile giant has informed Recombu that it’s expecting “several of our 2010 models including Desire, Legend and Wildfire” to join Google’s latest green bot party “beginning in Q3.” We went to the trouble of confirming this with HTC ourselves, and while this isn’t really much of an update from the company’s previous statement in terms of time frame, here’s hoping that at least some of its customers will get the delivery before the summer fiesta ends.
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Google: Android 2.2 (Froyo) comes to Nexus One
Google is finally rolling out Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo, to Nexus One users in an over-the-air update. The new version of the platform brings several impressive new features like support for push notifications and some significant performance improvements.
Google unveiled Froyo at its I/O developer conference last month. Several test builds for T-Mobile-compatible Nexus One handsets emerged not long after the event, but were not yet ready for widespread use. Google produced several subsequent release candidate builds as it fixed the bugs and addressed some minor technical issues.
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Netbook has 14-hour battery life, Bluetooth 3.0
Samsung announced a netbook claimed to offer up to 13.8 hours of battery life. The N230 also offers & Fast Start& technology, Bluetooth 3.0, a 250GB hard disk drive, a 10.1-inch display, and a choice of Intel’s 1.66GHz Atom N450 or 1.83GHz N470 processors, the company says….
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Programming with Scratch
As a homeschooling parent, I’m a big fan of educational software and I’ve written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I’m also a big fan of any program that makes computer programming more approachable by younger children. So, when I heard about Scratch, I was pretty enthusiastic. more>>
 
 
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LLVMpipe Still Is Slow At Running OpenGL On The CPU
Two months ago we published our initial benchmarks of LLVMpipe, the Gallium3D driver that accelerated commands on the CPU rather than any GPU and unlike other Linux software rasterizers is much faster due to leveraging LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine) on the back-end. Since then we have published new ATI Gallium3D driver benchmarks and yesterday put out Nouveau Gallium3D driver benchmarks, so today we are providing updated LLVMpipe driver results to show how well Gallium3D’s LLVMpipe driver can accelerate your OpenGL games with a modern processor.
 
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Tomcat 7 beta released
The Apache Software Foundation has released the beta version of Tomcat 7, the latest release of the Servlet container which now fully implements the Java Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications
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Google testing new menu for Chrome
Google has begun testing a new “Unified Menu” in the latest developer channel (a.k.a. the Dev channel) releases of Chromium and Chrome that combines most of the options that were available in the page and wrench menus into a single item.
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Hadoop goes ‘open core’ with Cloudera Enterprise
All-star startup fattens stuffed elephant
Hadoop Summit Cloudera – the commercial Hadoop outfit – has unveiled its first for-pay product: Cloudera Enterprise, an augmented version of the open source distributed data crunching platform designed specifically for production environments.…
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OpenSUSE 11.3 Launch Party in Nürnberg
On July 15th you are invited to celebrate with us the latest release of our distribution: openSUSE 11.3!
Who? All people interested in openSUSE. Please spread the word!
Where?openSUSE headquarters in the Novell building, Maxfeldstr.5, 90409 Nuremberg
When? July 15th, 19:00 – 22:00
What? We plan to have a presentation of 11.3 and it’s improvements, some demo systems, and lot’s of people that care about openSUSE to talk with. You could just bring your notebook to get the latest openSUSE version installed and have a beer with the developers and other users! We will have a big barbecue and franconian beer for all 🙂
For the small and big children we will have the openSUSE balloon clown visiting us, creating geekos and other animals like on Linuxtag. If you are not from Nuremberg, have a look at the party locations in the wiki, or make your own party!
Join this event on facebook.
If you cannot wait until 15.7. to get the new openSUSE 11.3, you can already download the release candidate on software.opensuse.org now.
Source: OpenSuse News