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Ubuntu 8.10 released

Another mile stone for Canonical teams. Good jobs!
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Features:
Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). But for the [...]

Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09

Asustek Computer plans to launch its first Android based Google phone in the first half of 2009, according to company sources. Asustek may initially sell the Android-powered handsets under its own brand in the Taiwan market before also launching customized models for overseas clients, said market sources close to the company.
In other news, the company [...]

Samsung I7110 S60 smartphone

Samsung have announced the I7110, a 12.9mm thick smartphone running Symbian S60 with a 2.6-inch AMOLED display. The I7110 includes both 3G HSDPA (900/2100MHz) and quadband GSM/EDGE, together with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS. There’s also a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, smile-shot, blink-shot and an LED flash, with a secondary camera up front [...]

Asus touchscreen Eee PC and laptops for Windows 7?

According to Digitimes System, Asustek Computer is planning to launch notebooks featuring a touch panel in the first or second quarter of 2009.

Asustek’s new touch panel notebooks are expected to take advantage of Windows 7, said the sources. Asustek showed concept notebooks featuring two touch panels during Computex 2008.

Asus launches touchscreen Eee desktop

Another great news from Asus!
Asus has launched a 15.6in touchscreen desktop PC, dubbed the Eee Top.
It’s come with 1GB of memory, 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 160GB hard disk, built-in 1.3 megapixel webcam, a set of stereo speakers, wired keyboard, mouse, Sun Microsystem’s Star Office and Microsoft Windows XP.