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Microsoft And Nokia's Plan To Shake Down Android Device Manufacturers
Microsoft shrewdly opted not to buy Nokia's mobile patents, thereby enabling another massive patent troll to prey on Android. Read More »
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Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Open Source Approach to Public Sector Work
Microsoft is increasingly looking at a hybrid approach that takes advantage of both proprietary enterprise IT and open source technologies for public sector projects to better meet the needs of customers in a multi-platform technology environment. Michael Wignall, national technology officer at Microsoft UK, said that despite being a company long associated with proprietary software and technology changing user needs had facilitated a switch towards providing solutions that offer at least some open source components in the area of Android devices and other platforms...
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Microsoft Is Now Irrelevant To Computing, And They Want You To Know It
With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is. If you didn’t understand the fall of Microsoft from powerful monopolist to computing afterthought, let SemiAccurate explain it to you...
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Microsoft May Be Planning Its Own Platform Play With HealthVault + Smartwatch Combo
Rumors of a new health-focused wristwatch from Microsoft have been swirling for some time now, and a digital health industry source told VentureBeat that those rumors are true...
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Microsoft Taps Former Linux-Bashing Team To Get Open Source Developers Excited About Azure Cloud
Microsoft has changed the mission of an internal team that used to highlight shortcomings in open source software, and is now using it to recruit open source developers.
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Mobile Operating Systems: Firefox OS, Ubuntu, Sailfish
In Linux Land, every year seems to start with a wave of prophecies that this will be 'the year of the something', usually the desktop. These predictions almost universally turn out to be over-hyped. However, 2013 could be the exception. Read More »
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More Evidence That Microsoft Might Cozy Up To Android
We've been predicting it for years, and now it looks like it's really happening: Microsoft is finally realizing that the way to escape from its mobile technology woes is to embrace Android. At least that's what is implied by a Wall Street Journal report that says Nokia plans to deliver a forked Android smartphone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona. [...] Read More »
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Motorola Project Ara: The Future Of Smartphones Is Open Source Hardware
[...] If the declared objective of Motorola (read Google) – that of truly democratizing the Smartphone (I would say the digital screens) industry and pushing it towards a landscape where it’s easier for new entrants to create products and compete – is accomplished we will face a completely different Consumer Electronics Hardware industry very soon. Read More »
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Mozilla And Mobile Operators Want To Make The Web More Global And Diverse
Firefox-maker Mozilla and the GSMA mobile operator trade body are teaming up to help develop more non-English content for the web, so as to “positively shape” the future of the mobile web – and they’re looking for others to join them...
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Mozilla Holds Its Nose And Supports DRM Video In Firefox
The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says...
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Mozilla Unveils ‘Aggressive’ Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases, Security Updates Every Six Weeks
With Firefox OS version 1.0 out the door, Mozilla has decided that it’s time to unveil its strategy for new versions. The company is planning to make feature releases available to partners every quarter and push out security updates for the previous two feature releases every six weeks. Read More »
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Mozilla's $25 Firefox OS Phones Look To Score In India
The alternative to Android and iOS is geared for low-budget markets, and it's about to hit one of the biggest in the world. Will that price tag light a fire?
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Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile
Mozilla was late to mobile and now it’s trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date is its Firefox OS mobile operating system for smartphones. Read More »
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NASA's Android-Powered Mini-Satellites
What could you do with $3500 and an old smartphone? You could toss the phone, take the cash, and buy yourself the next best smartphone. Or, with a bit of a DIY attitude, you could push the limits of this hefty piece of technology and use it to power something else. Read More »
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New Smartphone OSes Taking Baby Steps Toward iOS, Android
Newcomers Firefox, Ubuntu, Sailfish and Tizen won't challenge Android's dominance anytime soon, but can still survive, according to analysts Read More »
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