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10 March 2013
Mozilla to the Rescue, Again?
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I've written a number of posts about Mozilla's rise and fall and rise: how it went from saving the open Web and open standards in...
08 December 2012
Indian Village Bans Unmarried Women And Girls From Using Mobile Phones
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It's fairly widely accepted that the key digital device in the future will be the mobile phone, not the desktop computer that has had...
10 June 2012
As UK Government Considers Opt-Out Porn Censorship, Report Already Finds Overblocking On Mobile Networks
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A few weeks ago, we noted the UK government was considering plans to bring in an opt-out form of censorship, in what would amount to a kin...
27 October 2011
Just Because Something's Fake Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Innovative
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The term "shanzhai" literally means a fortified mountain village, and originally meant those places in China that were outside g...
30 July 2011
Mozilla's Next Firefox Moment?
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Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, b...
07 March 2011
Moving beyond the Microsoft Monoculture
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For the last 15 years we have been living in a Microsoft monoculture, which has had very real knock-on consequences for everyone online – no...
10 February 2011
AllJoyn Open Source
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One of the sure signs that open source has entered the mainstream is when companies not normally associated with this approach starting gett...
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...
26 March 2010
The King of the Trolls Strikes Gold
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Well, this is rather droll. The other day I was writing about the patent troll to end all trolls, Intellectual Ventures. And now we have thi...
17 March 2010
Is Microsoft About to Declare Patent War on Linux?
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Microsoft's comments on happenings outside its immediate product portfolio are rare, and all the more valuable when they do appear. Here...
03 March 2010
Schools for Scandal - the UK's
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Here's an interesting piece about software in UK schools. There are a couple of remarks that although incidental, are incredibly revea...
04 February 2009
Volantis Who? - a UK Open Source Success Story
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Guildford is not famous for being a hotbed of open source, but that's where the British open source company Volantis is based. It's ...
22 January 2009
Mobilising Open Source
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I've been wittering on about open source mobiles for ages, but here's someone who actually knows what he's talking about: Wheth...
21 January 2009
There are Many Ways to Skin a... Netbook
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Good point here: Even if manufacturers may be getting smaller margins on netbooks, I suspect they will add skins, cool designs and other le...
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...
19 October 2008
Madness Begets Madness
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This is where the madness of authoritarianism leads: Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a na...
01 October 2008
Opening OpenPandora's Box of Openness
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After the open source mobile from Android we have the open source game platform from OpenPandora : * ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running...
29 September 2008
Android Gets a Hand
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As I wrote last week, Android's USP is openness. Although that means open to everyone, there is arguably an advantage to open source cod...
09 August 2008
T-Mobile Gets the Open Meme
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T-Mobile is working with the industry to foster an open wireless services platform which will provide developers with the tools and informat...
20 March 2008
Volantis Code Takes Flight with GPLv3
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