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Remember all those years ago, when people laughed at the first Android phones (which were, to tell the truth, pretty clunky, but still......

When the first Android smartphones came out, the consensus view among certain "experts" was that Google didn't stand chance...

Last week, I wrote an article pointing out that the NSA' s assault on cryptography, bad as it was, had a silver lining for open sou...

Linux has a problem: it's running out of platforms to conquer. It's already the top operating system for smartphones and supercom...

In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...

The reaction to the jury's decision in the US patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung has been rather remarkable. I've...

At the end of last year, I wrote about the great service Barnes & Noble had performed by drawing back the curtain on one of Microsoft...

Recently, there was some justified excitement that Red Hat had finally done it, and turned in annual sales of over $1 billion . A couple o...

You don't have to be a marketing genius or industry pundit to foresee that tablets will be an extremely hot sector in 2012. The launc...

Those with good memories may recall the following amusing episode when BT wanted to sue people for daring to use its super-duper patented h...

It's no secret that Windows Phone is struggling desperately in the battle against the smartphone leaders, iPhone and Android. And de...

As I've noted many times, one of the biggest threats hanging over open source is patents, because of the way trivial but indispensable...

Google matters for open source. First and foremost, it is an example of a multi-billion dollar global company that simply would not be po...

Microsoft is currently engaging in some incredible rewriting of history. Here's Horacio Gutiérrez, deputy general counsel at the com...

As Bessen and Meurer's book "Patent Failure" points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack o...

Back in April, when Apple sued Samsung in the US, I noted that Apple's claims seemed pretty over the top - basically claiming that any r...

Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, b...

One of the unusual characteristics of the computer industry in recent years is the rapid rise of companies to almost complete market dominan...

Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share aro...

I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...