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In-flight Internet access... and mobile phones too?

I read a business article in the Economist ( ‘Mobile Phones on planes – Your call’ ) during the Christmas holidays about the current developments in passenger in-flight systems...

16 years 10 months ago

The Check is in the Mail, Do No Evil and Other Matters of Trust

All will agree that mobile Linux suffers from fragmentation today , and that fragmentation • creates significant challenges to Linux adoption in mobile phones (lack of...

16 years 11 months ago

Open Interfaces Needed

Customers demand choice, choice drives competition, and competition drives innovation and lowered cost. That’s a Free Market Economy , right? Well, no economic or political system...

Open Handset Alliance and LiMo – Why both initiatives are here to stay

It’s easy to take the fragmentation of the mobile phone industry for granted. With over 40 different proprietary and Open Source Middleware and Application Frameworks addressing...

Prize: Lunar X

You’ve heard about it, haven’t you? The Google Lunar X prize? The X-Prize foundation seeks to encourage radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In case you don’t know or...

17 years 2 months ago

Big Software and Mistreated Customers

It’s tough to be a customer sometimes, especially in the world of software. Lately, I’ve really felt like a mistreated customer as I use Microsoft Vista. Yes, it’s my own fault for...

17 years 2 months ago

Pointy Haired Boss: Open Source Software is Free!

Today’s Dilbert says it all. There are far too many "free as in open, not free as in beer" blog posts for me to rehash this is great detail ( wikipedia , my post ). But this comic...

17 years 3 months ago

Integrated Modular Smartphone?

The title of this blog might suggest that I’ve got mixed up between Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and consumer devices , but if you bear with me, I’ll try to explain why I...

17 years 4 months ago

A robot in every home

I’ve been trying to keep track of industry news, and at the moment it seems as to me as if everyone is either blogging about the Apple iPhone (Engadget blog) or Windows Vista...

17 years 9 months ago

Even Bacteria Form Communities

After several days at CES, I was so OVER IT by my final night in Vegas. OVER the crowds, OVER the lines and especially OVER the abundance of cool, new gadgets I live to try out...

17 years 10 months ago