Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Many years ago I wrote what I called "Dana's Iron Law of Laptops," an ounce on the desk is a pound in my hand. Now laptops are becoming desktop replacements, and the hand is being replaced by a pocket or purse.

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Date: 02/12/08     Keywords: technology

Technology is all about executing on ideas. That takes vision and autonomy. Take out the company and you take out the autonomy, often the vision as well.

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Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: linux

The LiMo Foundation is making steady progress on its goal to make Linux a popular mobile operating system. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, several key LiMo vendors including Motorola, Samsung, NEC and Panasonic announced as promised the first set of LiMo-compliant handsets while LG, Aplix and Purple Labs showed off prototypes and [...]

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Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

Once a proposed standard enters into the wide end of the funnel, the process is dedicated towards flushing out problems and then resolving them, so that a final, acceptable standard comes out the small end of the process

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Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: technology

It would be nice to know how much of their talk about technology and competitiveness is rhetoric, as opposed to reality.

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Date: 02/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

While there are a variety of alternative licenses for content, notably the Creative Commons license, there is no alternative scheme as such for hardware.

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Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

Would President McCain do for open source what President Obama might do? What about President Hillary Clinton? Maybe they all talk the talk. Do you think any can walk the walk?

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Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

The only weakness I see, if it exists at all, is a reluctance on the part of some to embrace the entrepreneurial opportunity which open source provides. I'm talking about the open source obligation, the idea that if you're given freedom you must use it.

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Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: technology

Fact is only 10% of doctors use EMRs because they're afraid of technology dead-ends. Open interfaces eliminate that objection, or at least allow the government to overrule that objection.

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Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

Thanks to one clever grad student, and one small charity, Houston's poorest will soon have better broadband than you and I, free. This is due to the magic of WiFi, of unlicensed wireless broadband.

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Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives argued, was to ensure interoperability between the two platforms [...]

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Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

If Jazz is a trojan horse for Rational, it's not a secretive one. It comes in with big signs reading "IBM inside."

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Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: crm

SugarCRM is now delivering on-demand support for Blackberry Smartphone users in the SMB space and new installers for Solaris/OpenSolaris. As the open source CRM company’s annual conference began today in San Jose, Calif., exec announced a partnership with iEnterprises that will give mobile Blackberry users real-time access their Sugar CRM data. The Mobile Edge Express [...]

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Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

The targeted release date for Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now February 11 and follow on Beta 4 is “tentatively” scheduled for February 26, according to Firefox meeting notes posted on Mozilla.org Tuesday. With that, it appears Firefox 3 will be released in early 2008 as planned, although no exact date has been announced. The team started [...]

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Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is vital to an enterprise's data plumbing because it results in open standards. Not only does open source plumbing make standards transparent, it makes them flexible.

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Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

The idea is to subsidize the delivery of content with the ads in an environment that allows targeting based on both the content of what you're getting and your behavior. This is what the Internet has been moving toward for years.

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Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

Your time-to-market depends a lot on your ability to integrate whatever you have with others' billing, shipping, and marketing systems. You have systems, they have systems, maybe it's just one big system.

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Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

The speed of your commerce is increasingly determined by the speed of your network, and your ability to use it.

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Date: 02/05/08     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Forget Super Tuesday. Consider Super Friday. Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard. Opponents say Microsoft has been packing national standards bodies to assure a “yes” vote on Open XML, which opponents call OOXML. The Open Document Format (ODF) used [...]

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Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: no keywords

Linus likens the use of patents to foreign policy, with great powers arming themselves with patents and battling the incoming patent suits of "rogue states." The best answer, he says, is peace. Who will give patent peace a chance?

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