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iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door

iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back doorThanks for that link!I'm going to look into Funambol. Given Apple's security record and the crippled nature of iPhone 2 when compared to anything other than iPhone 1, I'm staying far, far, far away from their whole platform.Apple's ephemeral dominanceApple's current market...

Tags: Linux, Apple iPhone, open source, Apple Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door

With the first Apple iPhone open source developers were like burglars breaking windows, forcing their software onto the device. Thanks to the Apple iPhone SDK they're more like beggars now. Knock on the back door politely and you might get a beer. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Funambol, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market

The impending release of the Google phone and Motorola's first Linux-based Razr2 device shown above in the U.S. will catapult open source's status in the mobile market. In spite of efforts from numerous Linux organizations and specialty startups, proprietary platforms from RIM, Microsoft,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Mobile Linux, Motorola Inc., Funambol, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Open source and the attention economy

With the continued growth of the open source economy we in the media find our job is to pay attention.This is not what's best for our financial health. I have found that most stories I write about small open source start-ups go unread and unremarked upon.On the other hand, all...

Tags: Applications, Events, General, marketing, Microsoft, Software as a Service, VOIP

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Device innovation feeds open source mobile

Can software lead us to a world of mobile open source?No. I mention this because the folks at Funambol have announced a program called Phone Sniper, offering $25 to test phones' compatibility with its open source development platform, a process it says takes an hour. Funambol says it has members...

Tags: Funambol, network, open source

Blog posts 2006-10-18

Open source offers new corporate responsibility twist

Two stories came across the desk today, both of which involve open source companies working to serve the greater good and benefit themselves at the same time. Together they illustrate an important trend. Funambol announced a Community Sniper program. The idea is they will pay bounties of $2,000 to folks...

Tags: Funambol, open source, Red Hat Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Can open source crack the mobile case?

Mobile open source projects are still all about the enterprise.Andrew Aiken, a member of the advisory board for Funambol, which has an open source mobile platform, admitted as such to me today in describing a target application."Say you’re a salesperson selling, say, hardware for tractor parts. But you can have...

Tags: enterprise.Andrew Aiken, Computone, mobile

Blog posts 2006-01-10

Additional Resources

Will students replace notebooks for handhelds?

Guest post: Imran Hussain is a blogger at startupmeme.com, and has a keen interest in technology and its effects on the lives of students. Apple demonstrated some applications aimed at medical students at this year's WWDC. First was Modality, software for medical science students by a company...

Tags: Student, Google Docs Mobile, Notebooks, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Whose mobile open source community will deliver?

In all the talk of the various approaches to building mobile open source platforms one word has been left out. Community. One of the key lessons open source companies have learned over the last few years is that it's the quality of your development...

Tags: Mobile, Forge, Open-source Community, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?

Version 3 of the Affero GPL was approved by the OSI last week, leading one of its advocates to suggest it should become the most popular version over time. (Picture from last October's VentureCamp for Blognation.) As the software industry increasingly moves to a Software as a...

Tags: Software, GPL, OSI, Loophole, Capobianco, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Is+mobile+spam+OK+if+the+sender+pays%3F

Is+mobile+spam+OK+if+the+sender+pays%3FAdblock Mobile 1.0 follows 2 weeks later.Assuming a gPhone, with an open API, expect Adblock Plus mobile (and the escalating war to bypass/update) within 2 weeks. I am completely outside the ad environment anyway, FF with Adblock plus, I never see 3rd party ads anywhere. (Direct page ads, I...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, phone

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

Is mobile spam OK if the sender pays?

Funambol, the open source mobile messaging company, says it has signed a deal with Amobee "to fuel mobile e-mail for the mass market." Translation. If the sender pays will you take mobile spam? Technically, all that's happening is that Funambol is integrating its open...

Tags: Mobile, Idea, Spam, Messaging, Amobee, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Funambol challenges iPhone lock with open source app

Funambol, the producers of SyncML, is offering the first corporate-branded challenge to Apple's locked iPhone. The company announced a plug-in for synchronizing iPhone contacts, which C|Net has already checked out and praised in a review on our Crave blog.  (That's it to the right, from Crave.) ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Plug-in, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform

Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...

Tags: Mule, MuleSource

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Open source offers new corporate responsibility twist

Open source offers new corporate responsibility twistShort term help isn't the answerHi Dana, Re: "This is cool for several reasons. Unemployed programmers can make money. New talent may get discovered."I blogged about how hiring short-term help may not be in line with the long term goals of an open source...

Tags: Business ethics, corporate responsibility, open source

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Toward an honest GPL

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco left has a fascinating post up today about what he calls the Honest Public License, a proposal that the GPL close what he calls the "ASP loophole."The loophole appeared as distribution of GPL software moved to the Web. When software is a service, does everything that...

Tags: GPL

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Open source mobility lags

Open source mobility lagsRE: Open source mobility lagsThe only open source mobility I care to see advance is laptops. Screw cell phones. A phone is a communication device to be used to talk to another human or in most cases a recording of said human.I still don't own a cell,...

Tags: Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, laptop computer, phone, cell phone, open source, mobile, Open source mobility lag, mobility lag, mobility

Discussion threads 2005-08-25