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- What is Intel's mobile Linux game?
- Intel has a new mobile Linux project dubbed Moblin right.It includes  a Linux kernel, a framework for a user interface, a browser, a multimedia framework, and embedded image creation tools, along with developer resources.Sounds great until you realize there are a ton of other, similar frameworks under development. Nokia backs Maemo,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- The open source purpose of new spectrum
- What is the purpose of frequency regulation?Is it to maximize returns for investors or to serve the public interest?Open source does not deliver as much software profit as the proprietary model, but it does deliver enormous value to customers. Thus the free market likes open source. If the purpose of "competition"...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Can OpenMoko break the wireless monopoly?
- Open source telephony takes a big step forward today as the OpenMoko neo1973 starts shipping to developers. Its public Wiki is also open for business.The phone runs an open Linux kernel and what it calls Mobile FOSS, meaning everything inside it is Free and Open Source Software. Parts were chosen based...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- FCC fights the open source concept
- With today's release of new rules for Software Defined Radios, it should be clear that the FCC under chairman Kevin Martin right is dedicated to proprietary models, and a determined foe of open source.The final FCC language shows disdain for the open source concept, fearing that anything which can be...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- The telecomm revolution will not be televised
- Maria Bartiromo of CNBC ticked me off the other day.It was in her introduction to the NxtComm show in Chicago, the successor show to Supercomm. She breathlessly described how "the industry's heavyweights" were there to "decide on the future of telecommunications."But the future doesn't come from there anymore.The future is...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Open spectrum is why the iPhone will fail
- Until Larry Dignan pointed it out, I had not realized just how busy we ZDNet bloggers had gotten in talking about the Apple iPhone.It's hardware, it's proprietary, so I really planned on keeping my mouth shut about it. But there is one point I have decided to make, one related...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- WiFi is the open source technology of the decade
- To me, the best open source technology of this whole decade is WiFi.Without it, I wouldn't be posting this.Since a lightning strike knocked out my wired Internet service a few nights ago I have been coming to you from inside a coffee shop a mile from home called Gathering Grounds....
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- GPV V3 and hardware modification
- The Free Software Foundation has released its "last call" draft of GPL V3, along with a personal plea from Richard Stallman for folks to upgrade from V2. (This gadget-loving Tux was found at Computer Shopper.)Most discussion of the new release will focus on Novell, which won clearance for its Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- The war against open spectrum
- One of the key Internet values which makes open source possible is open spectrum.Unlicensed frequencies, linked to the Internet, have been among the greatest economic boons of this decade. The 802.11 or WiFi bands carry far more traffic, and generate far more economic activity, than any licensed band ever sold...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Can Linux save Palm?
- Palm Computing, which defined a whole new category with the PDA and then saw it shrivel, is attempting a comeback based on Linux. (Picture from the PalmInfoCenter.)A new version of the Palm Treo, due out by the end of the year, will run on a version of Linux. This news...
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Spotty networks alter the client-server balance
- How much work should a client device do, and how much should the server do? (Image from Answers.Com, originally created by Originetics Inc.)The balance has gone back-and-forth for two decades now, and over the last few years it has been switching toward clients. The debate is relevant because most clients...
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- AT&T uses open source to assure dominance
- How can anyone compete with AT&T if it has open source religion?Someone needs to figure that out, because they do. AT&T is an investor in OpenClovis, which offers an open source application service platform for the telecom industry.This week OpenClovis announced several projects aimed at integrating its platform with important...
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
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- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Telecom Italia Expects to Increase E-Mail Availability and Reduce Storage Costs
- Telecom Italia is the leading provider of telecommunications services in Italy and one of Europe's largest operators of fiber optic networks. In 2007, it started to implement a new IT infrastructure. During that process, the company decided to increase the availability of its e-mail system, lower its storage hardware and...
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
- how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Is Nokia losing focus by now expanding into the PC market with the Booklet 3G?
- Too early to tell, but.....Nokia runs the risk of becoming an "also ran" in a new and unfamiliar market. A better move IMHO would be to come out with a revolutionary Linux powered smartbook at a sub-netbook price. Nobody knows for sure where the mobile convergence is heading, but this...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- The iPhone Telephony Tragedy
- I've got a first gen iPhone and live in San Francisco, the heart of Apple country. The voice communication part of it has been slowly getting worse and is now virtually unusable. A first gen iphone is of course ancient history to an Apple or Mobile...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package
- Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
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