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Mimique Phone Concept, Touchscreen for Kids "Mimique" is the name of a recently unveiled mobile phone concept that should be a response to the all-serious PDA-like devices that conquered the market in the last years. Viewed from the back, the Mimique looks like a toy with an external antenna and rounded edges. Viewed from the front, the handset still looks lik...	19 May 2008 05:55 GMT

OLPC Calms Down the Open-Source Developer Community The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number...	7 May 2008 06:31 GMT

Build Yourself a Surface Computer for Only $500 Microsoft's revolutionary Surface computers have already hit the shelves of a few selected companies such as AT&T and it seems that this kind of approach will revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. The extremely intuitive software teams up with a natural user interface (the hand) to put all the ne...	6 May 2008 03:38 GMT

VIA Goes Open-Source, Embraces Linux Taiwanese chip manufacturer VIA has announced a new project aimed at supporting the open-source development community in writing software for the company's processors and chipsets. The company has also announced its official VIA Linux website that will welcome its first visitors later this month.When the website...	9 April 2008 09:29 GMT

The Auto-Replicating 3D Printer, Now Available for Free The RepRap project managed to give birth to something that you might call a printer only if you think outside the box. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) device is able to replicate and update itself whenever it is necessary. In order to update itself, the unit prints its own parts.According to software develo...	8 April 2008 09:01 GMT

China Universities Join Sun's SPARC Partnership Program Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil...	27 February 2008 03:02 GMT

AMD to Release Additional R600 GPU Specs AMD is reported to have released the programming specifications of the M76 and RS690 graphics processors. Once the information is widely available, it will help the free software community to figure out the inner mechanisms of the two graphics processors. Until now, only the RadeonHD developers were to receive this t...	5 January 2008 03:41 GMT

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