Firefox on Windows on ARM – Microsoft Says No – Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

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• 15 May 2012 à 08:05
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Microsoft is trying to lock out competing browsers when it comes to Windows running on ARM chips. IE is allowed there but not Firefox or Chrome or Opera or any other competitive browser. This is bad for the Web.

Serveurs ARM : bientôt la révolution ! | Silicon

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• 15 May 2012 à 08:05
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Calxeda a profité de l’Ubuntu Developer Summit d’Oakland (Californie) pour présenter un serveur 2U intégrant un maximum de 48 processeurs ARM quadricœurs, soit un total de 192 cœurs. Le tout fonctionne sous Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Hey Google, take control of Android already, will ya? — Mobile Technology News

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• 9 May 2012 à 08:05
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Android debuted as a clunky operating system with few apps in October 2008, but since then has improved and grown. But Google’s openness — allowing anyone to use the platform — might not be the best strategy for keeping its lead.

ARM-Powered Servers To Hit the Market This Year – Input Output

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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After more than a year of public consideration and thinking out loud, major server vendors are poised to release microservers based on the ultra-low power processor from ARM Holdings, the same chips used in smartphones and tablets.

[Phoronix] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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Earlier in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” development cycle I noted some performance improvements happening on the ARM side, particularly for Texas Instruments OMAP4. Namely, Ubuntu 12.04 was ARMing up for better performance with ARM hard-float support and the performance becoming more compelling for the PandaBoard ES hardware with proper cpufreq support. In this article is a comparison of the Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 ARM performance.

India’s $35 Aakash tablet: It’s remarkable it ever got made – Liliputing

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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Recently the company responsible for designing India’s $35 Aakash tablet announced plans to launch a second generation device. It will have a faster processor, and longer battery life, but it will still be designed to meet the primary goal: getting low cost computing devices into the hands of Indian students.

Samsung Galaxy S3 may be the first smartphone with full ARM TrustZone support for enabling 100% security in everything online – ARMdevices.net

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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The newly announced Samsung Galaxy S3 may not only have an amazing new 32nm Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a new accelerated higher frequency Quad-core Mali-400 GPU offering perhaps the fastest ARM SoC in the world at the moment. Samsung may also have done the right choice to fully enable and activate ARM TrustZone through the MobiCore integrated security platform directly onto the Exynos 4412 SoC.

The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

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• 7 May 2012 à 07:05
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• Android 3, Samsung Exynos, Smartphone

The Galaxy S III is… well… its ugly. Theres really no other way to put it. But why? Why is it ugly? I dont mean aesthetically, why is it ugly, I mean, “How did something like this ever make it out of Samsungs design studio?” Ill tell you how, it was never in the design studio. This phone design was born down the hall, in a room where the door sign reads “Samsung Legal.”

Quasar: a window manager for iPad

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• 1 May 2012 à 11:05
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I’ve been developing a new tweak for iPads called Quasar. Quasar is a tweak that allows you to run your apps in windows in your iPad. Just like in a window-based operating system, you can resize, move, close or full-screen windows. Quasar is available in Cydia Store for US$9.99.

Highlights from my 2 weeks of video-blogging at 4 conferences in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou China – ARMdevices.net

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• 27 April 2012 à 07:04
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• Android 3, Chipsets, Device Type, Linux, Smartbook, Smartphone, Tablet

During these past 2 weeks, I posted 122 videos from my trip in China. Thanks for watching! I have now returned back in Europe. Here are the numbers of videos that I posted from each conference: