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Daily links for 02/08/2013
Dismal news for Microsoft’s mobile efforts: Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets sales are in the dumper | Computerworld Blogs “Microsoft just got hit with a double-whammy: Reports show that Windows Phone market share is in the very low single … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/30/2012
Technology Leaders Support OASIS Standards for Open Data Protocol – MarketWatch “Based on that demand, Citrix Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Progress Software, SAP AG and WSO2 are proposing an Open Data Protocol (OData) Technical Committee (TC) in the … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/11/2011
Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu Linux cloud | ZDNet “OK, it’s not too surprising that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has switched to OpenStack for its Ubuntu cloud foundation technology. After all, Canonical started flirting with OpenStack back in … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/27/2011
Groklaw – Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetive Scheme Against Android “Microsoft has a scheme, Barnes & Noble asserts, to dominate Android and make it undesirable to device manufacturers and customers by demanding “exorbitant … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/11/2011
Gartner: Microsoft will still be a tablet no-show in 2015 | ZDNet “Gartner projects that Apple’s iOS will hold 47 percent of the tablet operating system market in 2015 with Android at 38.6 percent. RIM’s QNX will have a respectable … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/16/2011
Five Reasons not to “Upgrade” to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9 | ZDNet “After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/17/2011
Microsoft bans open source from the Marketplace | thinq_ “Microsoft has raised the ire of the open source community with its Windows Marketplace licence by specifically refusing to allow software covered under an open licence to be distributed.” tags: microsoft … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/11/2011
At last, iPhone comes to Verizon | Circuit Breaker – CNET News “At a press conference in New York City today, Verizon said it will soon begin selling Apple’s iPhone. The device will be available on its network starting in early … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/05/2011
Google Wins One Against Microsoft – WSJ.com “Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/06/2010
Dark forces gunning for Google – Telegraph “But a key player in all of this that you might not have heard of is the Brussels-based “Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace”, or ICOMP, which has been lobbying for an antitrust … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/02/2010
How To Sell WordPress To Clients | Video User Manuals “Tammy Hart is an Automattic consultant who recently gave a talk at WordCamp Atlanta about “WordPress & Working with Clients”. She had such a positive response to her talk that … Continue reading
Daily links for 11/08/2010
$2000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers “Adafruit industries offered a reward of $1000 for the first open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect hardware. Microsoft wasn’t pleased at the idea that its hardware might be diverted to some other purpose … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/31/2010
Thorn “Thorn is a dynamically-typed concurrent language in which lightweight isolated processes communicate by message passing. Thorn includes powerful aggregate data types, a class-based object system, first-class functions, an expressive module system, and a variety of features supporting the gradual … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/25/2010
Scott Laningham : #developerWorks podcast “Rod Smith, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group, and Jason Gartner, IBM’s Director of Java Technologies talk about this week’s news on the IBM and Oracle agreement to cooperate on OpenJDK.” tags: developerworks … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/19/2010
7 Places to Find Free, Legal Images for the Web | BloggingPro “Everyone knows that the Web is a visual medium and that posts/pages with images stand out better than those with just text. However, finding images can be tricky, … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/14/2010
Microsoft Gives its Blessing to OpenOffice.org – Open Enterprise “The criticisms made in the video are not really the point – they are mostly about OpenOffice.org not being a 100% clone of Microsoft Office, and compatibility problems with Microsoft’s proprietary … Continue reading
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Daily links for 09/21/2010
Oracle rips Red Hat and ‘sort of’ launches a new Linux – Computerworld Blogs “Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux–what a name!–is based on the stable 2.6.32 mainline Linux kernel. For some reason, a few idiots seem to think … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/20/2010
Microsoft Exec Says ‘Open’ Means ‘Incompetent’ | Techdirt “That’s quite a statement, and one made with no basis whatsoever. Openness could “mask incompetence,” but I’d argue that it’s much easier to mask incompetence with a closed solution. Open generally is … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/25/2010
A Look at the Reading Habits of E-Reader Owners – WSJ.com “A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of those surveyed, … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/11/2010
Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft – IronPython, IronRuby, Microsoft, .net – Techworld “Microsoft’s open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/09/2010
Open Ajax breaks Microsoft disability advantage | ZDNet “The IBM-led OpenAjax Alliance has announced new tooling technologies aimed at helping the disabled navigate Web 2.0 sites, a real breakthrough for accessibility. Ajax may seem like great stuff to the sighted, … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/03/2010
Poll: Does the type of open source license matter to you? | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com “When you are evaluating an open source development tool, how important is the kind of license it uses to you? Let us know … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/15/2010
Standards ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review “A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC last week. The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review.” tags: odf oasis … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/10/2010
Firefox 4 beta 1 is a smart-looking, snappy performer – Computerworld “The just-released first beta of Firefox 4 takes some smart design ideas from Chrome, mixes in a few of its own and throws in a few new features and … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/01/2010
What the hell is going on at Microsoft? | ZDNet “The sudden rise and fall of the Kin is a clear pointer to the fact that Microsoft has no clear mobile strategy. The company is flailing wildly, throwing money about … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/25/2010
Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet | A Smarter Planet Blog “Editor’s Note: Following is an essay co-authored by Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux for IBM, and Jean Staten Healy, director of cross-IBM Linux … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/22/2010
Traveling abroad with a cell phone? Do these things first “It’s the first day of summer, and if you’re planning on exploring the world, you should start thinking about your wireless phone options now. You can get help from two … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/21/2010
Ubuntu v iTunes: the music playoff for Applephobes • Channel Register “So which Linux music app is the best? Well, that’s up to you. There is no such thing as the best piece of software, just the one that’s most … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/16/2010
I was wrong about Apple iPad | Betanews “The world does need an Apple tablet — and perhaps others — contrary to what I asserted in late January. Gloaters will circle my admission like vultures pecking a carcass, but that’s … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/10/2010
Brazil Wants To Be The Next India and Open Source Is Their Secret Weapon | NetworkWorld.com Community “Though Brazil has several disadvantages they must overcome to compete with the likes of India and China as an outsourcing world power, they … Continue reading
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Daily links for 06/09/2010
Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux? | COMPUTER ZINE “Your study found that it would cost $1.4 billion for a company to build the Linux kernel from scratch today, and $10.8 billion to build an entire Linux distribution … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/04/2010
Ballmer says Windows will shame iPad • The Register “It was a standard Ballmer-and-Microsoft defensive play on the PC’s place in the future of technology, a defense that conflates the idea of the computer with machines that run Windows. And … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/28/2010
The Spring 2010 Linux Distro Scorecard | Linux.com “Which Linux distro should I use? It’s one of the most common questions for new and aspiring Linux users. There’s so many to choose from, how can you pick the right one? … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/07/2010
10 Reasons Why Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Dominance is Ending – Enterprise Applications from eWeek “The bad news just keeps coming for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer platform. After being forced by the European Union to give Windows users the option of downloading … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/21/2010
Microsoft agrees to fix error in Polish browser ballot screen – Computerworld “Microsoft will fix an error on the Polish-language browser ballot screen that inadvertently always lists Internet Explorer first, a company official said Tuesday.” tags: microsoft, eu Posted from … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/23/2010
Novell revives annual BrainShare conference, dispels rumors | Deseret News “Although BrainShare was not held in 2009 because of the rocky economy, BrainShare 20TEN, as it’s being called, has drawn roughly 4,000 attendees for four days of hands-on training, networking … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/11/2010
Microsoft offers a Sophie’s Choice | Open Source | ZDNet.com “You get one choice. You buy Microsoft and you’re locked into Microsoft. You can’t go back. In Microsoft’s world its formats and open source are the two children, and you … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/12/2010
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsoft’s Profit Comes From “Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world. And its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/08/2010
Second Life official forums to be replaced Tuesday – Massively “According to previous figures from Linden Lab staff, fewer than 700 of 18.1 million registered Second Life accounts ever participated in the official forums provided by the Lab. The partial … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, January 1, 2010
Open Source Seeking Profit in Open-Source Search SoftwareThe New York Times / Ashlee Vance In the case of Lucid, the company hopes to profit from an open-source software package called Lucene. When paired with some other software (another open-source package … Continue reading
