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Microsoft Might Finally Be Committing To Open Source
Microsoft is known for keeping its programming secrets to itself. But under CEO Satya Nadella, the maker of proprietary behemoths like Windows and Microsoft Office is starting to show up in the world of open-source software, whose code is public for anyone to see, borrow from and tinker with...
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Microsoft Plus Nokia: Pending Patent Troll?
Nokia's large patent portfolio could be a powerful weapon in Microsoft's war on archrival Google Read More »
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Microsoft Promises To Stop Reading Your Emails
Microsoft is in full damage-control mode after it sparked a public backlash by snooping on the emails of a blogger. The company said Friday that it will no longer go through the emails of users who are suspected of stealing physical or intellectual property from Microsoft.
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Microsoft Really Does Love Linux
What a difference 15 years makes. Back in 2001, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was busy branding Linux "a cancer" during the height of the software giant's domination of desktop computing. Fast forward to 2016 and you'll find Microsoft confessing its love for everything open source and Linux. It's a stunning turnaround that's now backed up by Microsoft's serious attention to the open source world...
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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce Issue Joint Statement Making Commitment to Open Source Healthcare Interoperability
Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference here in Washington, DC, we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined with Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce in support of healthcare interoperability...
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Mikey Dickerson: No Paper Pushing At US Digital Service
Mikey Dickerson has already bucked Washington convention with his rumpled shirts and notable lack of neckwear. Now, the head of the U.S. Digital Service, a newly formed White House office responsible for improving government technology projects, is putting the federal IT community on notice: Don’t expect any paper pushing from his office...
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Mobile Giants Forced To Reckon With Emerging Markets
This, in a nutshell, is the challenge that faces the entire mobile industry: Growth opportunities lie in emerging markets, where a new price-sensitive middle class is booming. To win the next phase of the computing race, the heavyweights will have to rethink their approach. Read More »
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Mobile Health: Human API Helps Developers Enter The New Growth Market
The release of the Human API may help untangle the complex web of big data, insurance standards, health care sensors, and disease causal pathways that currently prevents many developers from designing health applications. The Human API offers a platform to make human health data available through a RESTful interface, using OAuth 2.0 authentication. Read More »
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Monopoly Madness
Monopolies, whether created by the state or created by the market, can be problematic for open source, and as technology moves forward, new spaces to monopolise are always appearing. Glyn Moody looks at how the authorities should handle the problem.
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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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Most Data Isn’t 'Big,' And Businesses Are Wasting Money Pretending It Is
Big data! If you don’t have it, you better get yourself some. Your competition has it, after all. Bottom line: If your data is little, your rivals are going to kick sand in your face and steal your girlfriend. 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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Motorola Teams Up With 3D Systems To Develop 3D-Printed Phones
Pre-Google, who ever imagined that Motorola (Motorola!) would be one of the world's most forward-thinking mobile manufacturers? Read More »
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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 Lights Up Preorders For Firefox OS-Driven Flame
Firefox OS fans across the globe can now preorder Flame, the Web-based mobile operating system's first official reference phone...
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