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Check-In CES: Mapping Your World Countless Applications Could Take Advantage Of A 3D World

Staff Writer | Adweek | January 7, 2014

Occipital is an extremely clever product which mounts onto the camera of an iPad to map the environment in 3D. There are countless applications for a mobile device which can sense the world in three dimensions. [...] Read More »

Collaborative Projects: Transforming The Way Software Is Built

Mike Woster | The Linux Foundation | July 8, 2013

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. [...] Nothing had or has since compared with that rate of innovation: I was hooked on open source collaboration, and I’ve never looked back. Read More »

How Do You Measure Up? New Health Gadgets Can Tell You

Julia Savacool | USA Today | January 5, 2014

An array of new personal health devices aims to help you beat depression, lose weight, reduce stress or improve your fitness level. Read More »

Is Auto The Next Android?

Dave Gruber | Open Source Delivers | September 25, 2012

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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Open Source Challenges A Proprietary Internet Of Things

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | March 4, 2014

Linux Foundation believes it has the code for unlocking Internet of Things and bringing success Read More »

Samsung Tizen-Based TVs Could Hit Market In 2014, CEO Says

Shara Tibken | CNET | September 12, 2013

Boo-Keun Yoon, co-CEO of Samsung and head of the consumer electronics business, tells a German publication that the company is working on televisions running the open source operating system. Read More »

Softbank’s Humanoid Robot Will Be Great For Tending To Japan’s Elderly

Adam Pasick | Quartz | June 5, 2014

The Japanese telecoms firm Softbank has unveiled a humanoid robot named “Pepper,” promising that it will be able to read and express emotions, and eventually serve as a medical worker, party companion, or even a babysitter...

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The Internet Of (Hardly Connected) Things

Stephan Dörner and Chase Gummer | Digits | September 8, 2014

The “Internet of Things”  which refers to the billions of devices that are expected to be connected to each other and to the Internet, is a catchphrase that’s hard to escape these days.  Even network storage maker Cisco has predicted some 25 billion devices will be connected by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020...

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The Price of Wearable Craze: Personal Health Data Hacks

Maggie Overfelt | CNBC.com | December 12, 2015

...in a year when the world's largest technology, medical device and health-care firms are betting big and fast on wearable technology's role in delivering patients a more precise and cost-effective way to manage their health, experts are worried that the pace of updating data-privacy laws and building infrastructures with optimal levels of security doesn't match the speed of the market's technological rollout. The risks to consumers depend on what type of device they're wielding. In rare instances, weak links or endpoints in a cloud-based network powering something like a wearable insulin pump could be life threatening, as it opens the door to hackers tampering with them...

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LibreCon 2015

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 29, 2015 (All day) - October 30, 2015 (All day)
Location: 
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

LibreCon 2015 takes over from the previous four editions of LibreCon and the Free Software World Conference, planning an event whose main goal will be the creation of business and employment in all sectors of society, through free technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. With this goal always in mind, LibreCon 2015 wants to show the benefits of a sector that is successfully surviving the overall economic crisis. Open Technologies in general and Free Software in particular, are a real alternative which offer increased competitiveness, great savings and development of local economies to worldwide business and government. This year, LibreCon will deal with consumer electronics and the automotive industry (entertainment systems, connected car), the Internet of Things and new education. There will be an area reserved for e-Commerce.

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