[News] Company Bases Product on Google's Linux and Earns $17.4 Million in Funding
Roy Schestowitz
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Borqs Secures $17.4 Million in Venture Financing Led by Norwest Venture
Partners
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| And because Borqs is based on Android and an open source environment,
| smartphones can be produced at a lower price point to further increase
| consumer adoption and drive the overall smartphone market. The company
| currently works with leading mobile operators and tier-one device
| manufacturers worldwide.
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Nokia to bridge Maemo, Symbian with Qt
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| Basing Maemo Harmattan on Qt will make it easier for developers to write
| applications for both Maemo and Symbian, Nokia's smartphone platform, the
| Finnish company's development platform product manager Quim Gil said Saturday
| at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10279951-94.html
Recent:
What does the Intel Nokia mobile Internet deal mean for open source?
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| Details of how Intel and Nokia will actually work together to create their
| brand-new category of not-a-smartphone, not-a-netbook mobile devices remain
| sketchy, but the first results will be open source software rather than any
| hardware platform.
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Intel and Nokia announce 'long-term relationship'
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| Under the arrangement, the companies said they will work together on chip
| design and open-source software. Intel recently has entered that field with
| its Linux-based operating system called Moblin, designed to function on
| portable devices, and Nokia has a Linux-based operating system, dubbed Maemo.
| In addition, Intel will license some modem technology from Nokia.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/business/technology/062609_intel_nokia.html
Nokia Increasing Platform Proliferation
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| LinuxDevices is pro-Linux, anti-Symbian, and now assumes Linux will displace
| Symbian:
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| The partnership news further suggests that the rumors that Nokia is
| moving forward with Linux -- and not, it seems, Symbian -- devices that
| combine MID and smartphone characteristics, are true. It also appears
| that Nokia will likely focus on Linux for its future high-end
| smartphones, while leaving a soon to be open-sourced Symbian to handle
| less powerful smartphones and feature phones.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/145552-nokia-increasing-platform-proliferation
Nokia to release a netbook?
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| All this begs the question of which OS platform would Nokia choose? The N810
| runs on a Linux variant known as Maemo, which includes a Nokia-developed
| Gnome application framework dubbed Hildon.
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| Hildon in turn has been adopted by Ubuntu for their Intel-endorsed Mobile
| Internet Device Edition, while the Intel-founded Moblin project is built
| around the Gnome Mobile platform. This already gives Nokia some entré into
| the world of Linux and Atom-powered devices.
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http://apcmag.com/nokia-to-release-a-netbook.htm
Ballmer: GNU/Linux Will Win on Netbooks
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| I think this is a very frank analysis of the problem for Microsoft: after
| all, who's going to pay extra money just to get the Windows logo on a
| netbook, when they can get the same features for less with free software...?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/ballmer-gnulinux-will-win-on-netbooks.html
One Third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s Sold Run Linux
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| Dell attributes part of the Linux growth to competitive pricing on the Ubuntu
| SKUs. “When you look at the sweet spot for this category it is price
| sensitivity, and Linux enabled us to offer a lower price entry point,” added
| Dell senior product manager John New.
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http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
Netbooks Open Linux Window at BETT
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| On the same stand a large screen showed off the design appeal of the latest
| Ubuntu. This includes multiple windows rotating or rescaling. As this is
| better understood some Netbook users may return to Linux. Asustek Chairman
| Jonney Shih has predicted that about 60 percent of Eee PCs to be shipped in
| 2009 will have Windows XP.
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http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=384681&rel_no=1&back_url=
math: Windows 7 + netbook = failure - GNU/Linux as remaining winner!
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| Windows XP is basically gone, so an OEM license is worth 20 USD for a
| manufacturer, no problem at all. Windows 7 for Netbooks is the same as all
| other Windows 7 variants - no lean, light, vlighted, 7lited or whatever. Just
| a Starter version like in Windows Vista which gives you the "power" to run
| maximum 3 applications at the same time. Where again is the advantage? Oh
| yes, now Windows 7 Starter crippled edition costs a bit more than 20 USD for
| OEM, I would say around 99 USD after discounts, tax not included or did you
| think MS stops earning money?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012288o-2000637757b,00.htm
Otellini: Windows 7 Upgrade for Netbooks Will Be Tough'
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| Microsoft has a challenge: Sell a Windows upgrade as a way to save money.
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| The company's fourth quarter Windows revenue declined 8 percent, as PC buyers
| opted for lower-priced netbooks that run either Windows XP or Linux, rather
| than the higher-priced Windows Vista operating system, which does not run on
| netbook hardware.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/160967/windows7_netbooks.html?tk=rss_news
Reports: Microsoft Cripples Windows 7 Starter Edition in Hopes of Netbook
Upgrades
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| With Windows 7 Microsoft is releasing cheap versions of its OS for netbooks,
| but faces the challenge of getting customers to buy pricier versions
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 May Not Cure Netbook Headache
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| This time, as Microsoft readies Windows 7, the company is planning a basic
| version, as well as more expensive editions that are also targeted at
| netbooks. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said last week that he will make sure
| consumers can “trade up.”
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| ‘Pessimistic’
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| Many netbook buyers won’t go for it, because they want the cheapest option
| possible, said John DiFucci, the JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst who asked the
| question that prompted Ballmer’s comment. That means investors shouldn’t
| expect Microsoft to make much more money on netbook software, the New
| York-based analyst said in a note to clients. Microsoft hasn’t released
| specific prices for the different versions of Windows 7.
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| “I don’t know that there’s much room to charge more than what’s been charged
| currently,” said Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft in
| Kirkland, Washington. “I’m pessimistic about this.”
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahmXCOAixVMw&refer=us
Moblin V2 vs. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Ubuntu MID
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| Last week Intel had pushed out a second alpha release of Moblin V2 and now it
| boots even faster, which means they are down to the point of being able to
| boot in just a few seconds. Beyond a very quick boot process, they have
| already incorporated kernel mode-setting and other newer Linux/X.Org
| technologies while also working to build a desktop environment around the
| Clutter OpenGL tool-kit. Moblin is certainly turning into an interesting
| Intel creation, but how does its performance compare to other mobile-focused
| Linux distributions? We have benchmarked Moblin V2 Alpha 2 and compared it
| against what is likely their biggest competitor in the mobile space, Ubuntu
| Netbook Remix, and the LPIA-based Ubuntu MID edition. Which of these mobile
| operating systems is the fastest? We hope to find out today.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=moblin_ubuntu_mobile&num=1
What next for the netbook?
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| Price-wise I'd say that high-end netbooks are perhaps getting too far away
| from the initial premise of a small, cheap companion. These days the high-end
| models cost at least $900. Kogan Technologies is set to shake things up with
| its $499 10-inch netbook running gOS - a flavour of Linux designed to play
| nicely with Google services. I'm wondering if this will put pressure on other
| netbook makers to get back to basics and release a stripped-down 10 inch
| netbook to compete at around the $500 mark. Such a price war would certainly
| see netbooks take off again.
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http://digihub.smh.com.au/node/422
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Moshe Goldfarb
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> Borqs Secures $17.4 Million in Venture Financing Led by Norwest Venture
> Partners
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>| And because Borqs is based on Android and an open source environment,
>| smartphones can be produced at a lower price point to further increase
>| consumer adoption and drive the overall smartphone market. The company
>| currently works with leading mobile operators and tier-one device
>| manufacturers worldwide.
It's going to be cut and dried on this one.
Either they are going to get an extremely high return on their
investment or they will lose everything.
The jury is still out.