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Is Android Becoming The New Windows?
At the moment in the smartphone market Android is king. It is currently the most used operating system by some margin and most analysts expect this to continue. In some ways this resembles the rise of Microsoft Windows in the early nineties and like Windows Android’s popularity is coming with a big price tag – viruses. Read More »
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Is Auto The Next Android?
But the auto industry has a big challenge. While consumer electronics (CE), like smartphones, have development cycles as short as three months, automotive IVI development cycles are commonly three years or more. This leaves the auto manufacturers chasing the CE industry, constantly struggling to deliver and keep up.
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Is Google Coming Back To The Open Community On Document Formats?
OpenDocument Format Plugfest event highlights how government pressure is driving open standards adoption...
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It's Going to be Huge! Google Glass, Open Source, & Healthcare
Earlier this month, Dr. Rafael Grossmann made the news with his his first Google Glass aided surgery. This grabbed the attention of a lot of people in healthcare. Developers associated with the healthcare industry and the global 'open source' health IT community are now starting to get very active in this arena - exploring this emerging technology and creating the first generation of medical software apps for Google Glass. This whole area is going to be huge! Read More »
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Join the M Revolution
M is a multi-user, strongly imperative language designed to manipulate and control massive databases. It is used in the high availability, high reliability niche of the computer market—which includes banking and hospitals. It provides simple data abstractions, in which all data values are strings of characters, and all data can be structured as multiple dimensional arrays. M data structures are sparse, using strings of characters as subscripts. M is itself a language combined with a database engine
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Kenya: Ushahidi's Ping APP To Help Users Check On Status of Colleagues
Ushahidi has released a private alpha for its new messaging app,Ping, that has already been translated into 15 languages and works with a variety of global SMS providers like Nexmo, Twilio and Clickatell among others. Ping with the private alpha will open the doors to businesses, municipalities, and organizations who are looking for tool like Ping...
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Linus Torvalds: Linux Succeeded Thanks to Selfishness and Trust
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize and an accompanying cheque for 600,000 euros ($756,000; £486,000) from the Technology Academy of Finland. He was nominated for the award in recognition of the fact he had created the original Linux operating system and has continued to decide what modifications should be made to the Linux kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together.
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Linux 2017: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
In 2016, Linux turned 25. When it began, it was a student project. Today, Linux runs everything. From smartphones to supercomputers to web servers to clouds to the car, it's all Linux, all the time. Even the one exception, the end-user, is moving to Linux. Android is now the most popular end-user opearating system. In addition, Chromebooks are becoming more popular. Indeed, even traditional Linux desktops such as Fedora, openSUSE, Mint, and Ubuntu are finally gaining traction. Heck, my TechRepublic Linux buddy Jack Wallen even predicts that "Linux [desktop] market share will finally breach the 5-percent mark"...
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Linux Foundation Releases Business Open Source Basics eBook
Want to know how your business can get the most from open source? This free ebook can help. Developers know that open source is great. Even Microsoft is now on the open-source bandwagon. But, outside of the IT department, many companies don't understand why and how open source can help their businesses. The Linux Foundation has the answers you need in its new free Open Source Software Basics ebook. "Organizations have begun to realize that as they adopt more open-source software, they need to establish processes for everything from selecting software -- to deploying it, to ensuring license compliance," said Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin at the Open Source Leadership Summit in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
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Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on another great year
Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That interview took place at the first European LinuxCon, which was held in Prague. This year, it took place in Barcelona, and I took the opportunity to catch up with Zemlin on what had happened in the intervening time (disclosure: the Linux Foundation paid for my travelling and accommodation while I was there.) Read More »
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Linux Whips Apple's macOS in the Race to the Automobile CarOS
I don't think much about it while I'm driving, but I sure do love that my car is equipped with a system that lets me use a few buttons and my voice to call my wife, mom, and children. That same system allows me to choose whether I listen to music streaming from the cloud, satellite radio, or the more traditional AM/FM radio. I also get weather updates and can direct my in-vehicle GPS to find the fastest route to my next destination. In-vehicle infotainment, or IVI as it's known in the industry, has become ubiquitous in today's newest automobiles...
Location, Location, Location: Want To Help Mozilla Break The Ecosystem Locks?
The MozStumbler app is one way Android users can assist Mozilla with its quest to open up the walled gardens of Apple and Google. Read More »
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Luis Sosa, Technology Innovation For All In Latin America
Convinced that technology is not a privilege but a right for all, visionary Luis Sosa has positioned his company to expand access to mobile technology and create a connected global community. Latin America is leading the global mobile growth trend and has become an open field for fierce competition among manufacturers and carriers.
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Matchstick Launches The Flint Open Source Streaming Platform With New Hardware Partnerships
AOC and TCL join Matchstick to develop and market a target one million streaming devices in 2015 using the Flint platform...
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Microsoft and Apple unleash thermonuclear war on Google & Android
Former Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs didn't like Android and he told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he would "destroy Android" because it was "a stolen product" and said that he was "willing to go thermonuclear war" on the platform... Read More »
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