Executive Director Archive

  • LinuxCon is heading to Brazil in August

    LinuxCon is heading to Brazil in August

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    LinuxCon, the big Linux conference put on by the Linux Foundation, is heading to Sao Paulo, Brazil this year. This makes the third location for regional LinuxCon events after Boston, Mass in the U.S.A. an Tokyo, Japan in Asia. Why Brazil? “Brazil leads many other countries in its adoption of Linux and is a growing base of development. The time is right to take the industry’s premier Linux conference to Brazil,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. Full press release inside.

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  • NEC plans to ship 3D desktop PCs later this year

    NEC plans to ship 3D desktop PCs later this year

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Virtually every Japanese tech company has made some 3D-related announcement in the past months, but one remained suspiciously quiet in that area: NEC. We covered their (apparently very cool) glasses-free 3D 12.1-incher last year (it's yet to be commercialized), and today NEC made some initial announcements about a 3D desktop PC that's supposed to hit Japanese stores by year-end.

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  • Here are the HTC commercials 95% of YOU will see in the next 6 months anyway

    Here are the HTC commercials 95% of YOU will see in the next 6 months anyway

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    mocoNews ran an interesting article this morning about the massive marketing campaign HTC is plotting. Apparently, the Taiwanese mobile handset maker is about to launch a multi-million dollar advertising campaign over the next 6 months with the aim of becoming a household name in the United States. The company's Executive Director of Marketing, Steven Seto, formerly head of Starbucks’ global brand strategy, tells mocoNews that the campaign is designed to put the HTC brand will be in front of 95 percent of adult cellphone owners in the U.S.

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  • Linux Foundation Launches Branded Credit Card. Yes, It Features Tux.

    Linux Foundation Launches Branded Credit Card. Yes, It Features Tux.

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, is today announcing an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the OS through the organization's initiatives. Reading the press release announcing the new credit card made me raise my eyebrows, but after giving it a bit of thought I think that this is actually not that bad an idea. Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation in a statement says people can contribute to Linux in a variety of ways (writing code, marketing, etc.) but now have a convenient way of identifying themselves as supporters of the community "by carrying Tux in their pocket". And then of course there's the financial incentive.

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  • Book publishers’ latest hobby? Complaining about the Amazon Kindle’s success

    Book publishers’ latest hobby? Complaining about the Amazon Kindle’s success

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    We're starting to see more and more “hate” being thrown Amazon's way. That's because, of course, the Kindle is something of a success, and publishers, who already operate a pretty wonky business (more on that in a bit), are becoming concerned that Amazon will soon be able to wield the same kind of power that Apple did over the music industry. Basically, book publishers don't want Amazon to “own” the digital book market.

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