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2011: Top Ten FOSS Legal Developments
This year, 2011, was one of the most active years in legal developments in FOSS. This activity reflects the increase in FOSS use: Laura Wurster of Gartner, noted in the Harvard Business Review blog that open source has hit a “strategic tipping point” this year with companies increasingly focused on using “open source” software for competitive rather than cost reasons.
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Google Logic: Why Google Does The Things It Does
“What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. [...] But the topic also comes up regularly in conversations with my Silicon Valley friends. Read More »
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Google’s Motorola And Dutch Designer Developing Open Source, Modular Smartphone Hardware
Motorola’s been Googlified. It didn’t take long. The firm’s advanced technology projects team (ATAP) is perhaps the most obvious symptom. ATAP is to Motorola what Google X is to Google. The team says they’re pirates who like “epic shit,” and like their parent company, they’re suitably obsessed with open source. Read More »
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Google’s New “Moto X” Superphone Will Spy On You 24/7, And You’ll Like It
Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, Google’s wholly owned phone-making subsidiary, walked onto a stage yesterday with the company’s rumored new superphone, and while he refused to take it out of his pocket, he confirmed that it’s real and that it’s launching in October of this year. Read More »
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MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body
MIT Media Lab's 11-day health care hackathon pulled students and big companies together with a common goal: Healing a broken industry. [...] The goal is to jump-start an open source platform where apps that track all different aspects of your bodily health can exchange information. 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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Samsung plans move to high-end Tizen 'open source' phone
Samsung is planning to release a high-end smartphone running on the open-source Tizen operating system in August or September, the company confirmed Friday. Read More »
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Should Samsung Ditch Android?
Mobile analysts debate whether Samsung should free itself from Android and use its homemade OS, Tizen. Read More »
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The Congo Mines That Supply "Conflict Minerals" For the World's Gadgets
Most people who own a smartphone-or a laptop, or a new car-aren't familiar with tantalum, the rare, blue-gray metal that conducts electricity through these devices. But thanks to skyrocketing demand from electronics makers, tantalum-along with a handful of other rare minerals-is now one of the most sought-after metals on Earth. And it's fueling the ongoing conflict in Congo.
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The iPhone 5S Just Brought Us Closer To The Internet Of Things And A World Of Constant Surveillance
Sensors have played a role in mobile devices for years, even if it was simply a compass designed to help phone users find their bearings (in the woods, supposedly). Yet at Apple’s iPhone launch today, the company announced a “motion co-processor,” the M7 chip, on its higher-end iPhone 5S... Read More »
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US Judge Criticises the Patent System
Richard Posner, a judge for the 7th US Circuit of Appeals in Chicago, has publicly criticised the patent system as it applies to the technology industry. In his opinion, the current behaviour of technology companies when it comes to patents is unacceptable. Read More »
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White House Petition On Legalizing Unlocking Of Mobile Phones Tries To Pass 100,000 Signature Threshold
Last month, we wrote about how the White House had bumped up the number of signatures it requires to get on "We the People..." petitions from 25,000 to 100,000 before it is "required" to respond [...]. Around the same time, we also talked about how unlocking your mobile phone, [...]was switching from being legal to being illegal, thanks to the Librarian of Congress choosing not to renew an exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules... Read More »
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