Stuart Lowe installed Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 on a Gigabyte M912X netbook tablet. For us Mac users out there, this would make a pretty cool little portable. The Gigabyte M912X has a swivel 8.9-inch touchscreen and is powered by the Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor.

Have you ever wished your laptop would boot a bit faster? I mean, you can’t even use it for the first half-minute to minute, and it just fells like a waste of precious battery power. Well, two Intel engineers have modified Fedora to boot in five seconds on an ASUS Eee PC with an SSD. [...]

Nokia announced that they will buy the rest of Symbian for €264 million ($410 million), and they will also make the Symbian code open source. Nokia expects the acquisition to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2008. [via InfoWorld]

TUAW is reporting that Apple will seed an early beta of Mac OS X 10.6 to developers at the upcoming WWDC. Mac OS 10.6 is said to be simply a polished and perfected version of what we already with Leopard. It will also drop support for the PowerPC architecture and will be completely 64-bit. Snow [...]

Interestingly, Apple has released a 10.4.11 update for Tiger, after the release of 10.5 Leopard. More details here. In addition to this update for Tiger, Apple released a security update for Panther (10.3).

I am very pleased with Leopard’s Parental Controls. I have already implemented the controls for my own children. The time limits are particularly useful, as it can get tiresome saying, “It’s your bedtime. Get off the computer and go to bed.” Now the child gets a warning at 15 minutes, 10 minutes and 5 minutes [...]

From Google’s own blog: Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, [...]