The first Android phone was officially announced today at a T-Mobile press conference and is available for preorder by existing T-Mobile customers for shipping on October 22nd, the official public launch date. Announced price is $179 so I quickly signed..
Topics: *Nix and Open Source, android, g1, Gadgets & Hardware, HTC, phone, T-Mobile

The touch screen, the keyboard, the hotness, the open source. My long wait for a hot phone may be nearly over. CrunchGear is reporting that the video below of the alleged HTC Dream running Android may be the actual phone after all. So much for the...
Topics: Andriod, gadget, Gadgets & Hardware, Google, HTC, phone, T-Mobile

We got into a little freelancing groove at LinuxWorld this year. Rikki Kite, Managing Editor, asked for a little help with video tech for interviews. TechMonkey (from Alternageek) and I lent a hand and they got some great clips. Linux Pro Editor in...
Topics: *Nix and Open Source, fedora, LinuxPro, LinuxWorld, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Video

I met James Nixon actually hanging out at the empty Debian booth at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. I asked him if he would talk on camera for Alternageek about why he loved PC-BSD. The video has explatives and is not for children or those easily offended...
Topics: *Nix and Open Source, Distro, foss, FreeBSD, LinuxWorld, OpenSource, Video

An OpenMoko distrubutor, Koolu, is offering a free phone for Google Apps referrals. Basically I can earn my own free OpenMoko FreeRunner by referring others to Google Apps.
Topics: *Nix and Open Source, FreeRunner, Gadgets & Hardware, OpenMoko