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WACOM Launches Interactive and Multi-Touch Tablets with Bamboo

It has been a while that WACOM is noted as a leading tablet manufacturer, among the graphic designers. However, this is the first time they launched a series of products that could not just be used by the designers, but by the “aam junta” as well, with equal ease.

MOTOBLUR – The Latest Android Based Social Media Monster

In their bid to customize the open source operating system, Motorola has come up with a completely different UI, christened MOTOBLUR. It is interesting to note how much social media has affected today’s mobile interface designs, living proofs being the NOKIA N97, HTC Hero and MOTOROLA DEXT.

Fedora 11 promises “broadest feature set to date”

The Fedora Project has announced the availability of Fedora 11. The eleventh release includes the broadest feature set to date, spotlights developments in software management and sound, improves key virtualisation components and introduces Fedora Community, a portal project beta.

Intel, Novell to Drive Moblin Adoption

Intel and Novell have announced broad efforts to closely collaborate and encourage OEMs and ODMs (original design manufacturers) to adopt Moblin, an optimised open source Linux software platform to enable rich Internet experiences on Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and other mobile systems.

Samsung unveils Android Smartphone

Samsung Electronics has launched the I7500—its first Android-powered mobile phone. The handset features a 3.2-inch (8.1 cm) Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) touchscreen and 7.2MBps HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, giving users access to Google Mobile services and full Web browsing at blazing speeds.

OOo 3.1 now more than a match for MS Office

It’s been less than a year since Sun Microsystems’ OpenOffice.org hit its major 3.0 release, but the next version of the open source, cross-platform productivity suite is already available, complete with a slew of feature enhancements and performance tweaks. The first thing you’ll notice about the new OpenOffice 3.1 is that it just looks better—the program menus, letters and images it displays are sharper and clearer.