Showing posts with label smartphones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smartphones. Show all posts
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...
31 March 2013

What's Wrong With This Picture?

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As you may have heard, there's been an election in Rome recently. These kind of events tend to bring out the crowds, and NBC had t...

If Microsoft Shuts Down Google Maps In Germany, How Does That Benefit The Public?

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Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...
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...
10 February 2013

What's the next big platform for Linux?

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

UK Mobile Operator 3UK Filtering New Class Of 'Mature Content', Including Political Satire

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Smartphones have some big advantages: they offer considerable computing power in a highly-portable form, and are available at prices tha...
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...
13 October 2012

Creepy Smartphone Malware Re-creates Your Home For Stalkers

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It's become something of a cliché that anyone with a mobile phone is carrying a tracking device that provides detailed information ab...
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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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...
02 March 2009

Linux's Next Frontier: “In-Vehicle Infotainment”

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One of the sure signs that open source is taking hold in computing is that it is spreading far beyond its heartland, the datacentre. Smartph...