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24 July 2014
The Coming Chinese Android Invasion
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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......
23 November 2013
Android and the Tesco Effect
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When the first Android smartphones came out, the consensus view among certain "experts" was that Google didn't stand chance...
11 November 2012
The Irresistible Rise of Android
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In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...
02 September 2012
Apple's Pyrrhic Patent Victory
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The reaction to the jury's decision in the US patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung has been rather remarkable. I've...
17 February 2012
Would Steve Jobs Have Approved? Artist Offers His Apple Monologue, Performance Rights, For Free
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As sales of its products soar, and its share price continues to climb, Apple has come under increasing scrutiny because of the working co...
02 February 2012
iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry's Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales
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The annual Digital Music Report ( pdf ) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted pr...
19 April 2011
Of Apple and Android: Running Scared
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The smartphone space is turning into a textbook example of why patents not only do not promote innovation as their supporters claim so insis...
18 March 2011
How Can Open Source Survive in a Post-PC World?
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We are entering a post-PC world – or so we are told. But is that good or bad for open source? The open source world has been fixated so long...
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09 March 2011
Mozilla Moves On
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Back in August last year, I wrote the following: we no longer live in a simple binary world of Internet Explorer as the dominant player and ...
09 November 2010
Is it Time for Free Software to Move on?
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A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the way back to Richard Stallman's first programs for his new GNU project. An...
19 September 2010
Hearing Colours
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Wonderful post from a blind person about the effect of owning an iPhone: The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloa...
12 July 2010
Why Android's Victory is Inevitable
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Arguably the most important development in the world of open source in the last year or two has been the rise and rise of Google's Linux...
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07 June 2010
Why the iPhone Cannot Keep up with Android
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Although I have never owned an iPhone, nor even desired one, I do recognise that it has redefined the world of smartphones. In that sense, ...
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29 April 2010
Is South Korea's Crazy Experiment Ending?
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I've written a number of times about the curious experiment South Korea has been conducting: making its entire governmental and financi...
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26 September 2009
Freedom is Slavery, Slavery is Freedom
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute is always good for a laugh thanks to its transparent agenda (the use of the weasel word "competi...
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24 February 2009
ChinesePod Gives Me a Reason to Go Android
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Hm, this looks like a good excuse to get an Android phone soon: A big part of ‘learning on your terms’ is not being tied down to sitting in...
28 December 2008
PC vs. Mobile
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One thing that is evident is the continuing emergence of the mobile platform as a real alternative to the traditional PC. The iPhone and An...
25 September 2008
Google's First Open Source Product
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So the fabled Googlephone has arrived. It's pretty much as people expected, with tight integration to Google's main services, includ...
30 April 2008
Has the BBC Duped Us over iPlayer?
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You may remember that a little while back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the BBC's decision to go with a Microsoft-based DRM solut...
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31 December 2007
Open Source Unoriginal? - How Unoriginal
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Here's a tired old meme that I've dealt with before, but, zombie-like, it keeps on coming back : The open-source software community ...
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