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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......

As I  wrote  last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...

In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...

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...

One of open source's great strengths is that it is not a company. This means that traditional methods of nullifying its threat – such ...

As sales of its products soar, and its share price continues to climb, Apple has come under increasing scrutiny because of the working co...

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...

Apple has been garnering quite a reputation for itself as a patent bully, for example using patents around the world in an attempt to sto...

I am really quite relieved Google is trying to acquire Motorola Mobility. Not because I think it will solve all the problems of Android - it...

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...

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...

Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...

One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...

There's been a lot of chatter about Apple possibly switching to ARM chips for its laptops and even its desktops. Whether or not that is ...

The smartphone space is turning into a textbook example of why patents not only do not promote innovation as their supporters claim so insis...

The Apple iPad is a huge hit: 7.33 million of them were sold in the quarter ending in December. That's a pretty amazing achievement. But...

Wonderful post from a blind person about the effect of owning an iPhone: The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloa...