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“In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone.”

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Dynamism has just released Asus Eee PC 8G for sale. It will be available in both black and white, with 1Gb ram, mid-to late December at $499.

But I think the 4G Eee PC is a better deal since the $499 price tag is very close if not the same price as low end Windows computers

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More than 20,000 computers from Party offices nationwide will switch to using OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office from early 2008. Thailand did this recently as well

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“We are seriously not going to take credit for this, but holy crap, Palm just cancelled the Foleo, just like we asked them to! Palm CEO Ed Colligan just posted a message to the company’s official blog stating that they’ve decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion “in its current configuration” in order to “focus all of our energies on delivering out next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market.” In a way we’re sort of disappointed that we’ll never at least get to play with one and put it through its paces, but it’s definitely the right move — Palm needs to focus on one thing right now, and that’s coming out with a category-killing smartphone. Not that they’re giving up on the idea for good; Ed says that they’ll do a “Foleo II” based on the new mobile platform they’re already developing for their next generation of smartphones.”

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The coveted university computer platform in many German Universities has be changed to Suse Linux and Open Source Software.

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