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  • Usability to the people

    The other night when I was trying to make my way to bed, I kept stumbling over gadgets, accompanied by a sea of chargers and cables of different sizes and shapes. Looking around our cramped little flat, I realised that they are taking over whatever little floor space is left.

  • Devices provide a fertile new ground for Linux

    Linux is finding success in much smaller devices than the servers and workstations that have traditionally been its mainstays. For embedded systems developers, the advantage of Linux over proprietary OSes lies as much in its flexibility and openness as in its low cost.

  • Surfing the mobile wave a test for IT

    At many companies, users have got ahead of themselves — and IT, too — in the rush for the latest mobile devices, unaware of the challenges they pose. “They don’t realise it takes infrastructure, a wireless signal and a whole bunch of things before you can use a handheld,” says Hap M Cluff, director of IT for the city of Norfolk, Virginia.

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