And, it’s only going to get worse. Deal with it. My friends at VMworld, VMware’s annual trade show, tell me that the Wi-Fi sucks dead ducks through rusty tailpipes. I’m not surprised. If Steve Jobs’ Wi-Fi can fail while unveiling the Apple iPhone 4 to over a thousand Apple fans and journalists at the Moscone [...]
Entries Tagged as 'SmartPhone'
There will never be enough Wi-Fi bandwidth
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Entertainment · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Video · Wi-Fi
Is Oracle going after Google because Ellison is buddies with Jobs?
August 18th, 2010 · Comments Off
can think of all kinds of reasons why Oracle is suing Google over its use of its Java IP (intellectual property) in Android. Making money from its Java patents strikes me and most experts as the most likely reason. But, I’ve also heard suggested, time after time, that the real reason is that Larry Ellison, [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Development · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Open Source · Oracle · SmartPhone · Tablet
Oracle vs. Google over Java
August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Oracle is suing Google over the use of Java in Android and that may change everything about Java and open-source development. That’s one heck of a claim. Unfortunately, the experts agree. Java, while never a key language in Linux, is the core language for literally hundreds of software development companies and organizations. They range in [...]
Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Open Source · Oracle · SmartPhone · Sun
Of course Android can be hacked, so what else is new?
August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off
Where do people get this stupid idea that something, anything, is unhackable? They surely don’t get it from anyone who’s ever worked with security. We know anything can be hacked. Take, for example, this silly story entitled “‘Unhackable’ Android phone can be hacked’ from last week. Uh, I hate to tell you this, but I [...]
Tags: Google · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Security · SmartPhone
Android may have the phones, but MeeGo may get the cars
July 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off
Portland, OR-Google Android is already hot in smartphones and it’s going to be hotter than hot in Linux-powered tablets. So, where does that leave Intel and Nokia’s embedded Linux, MeeGo? In the dust? Actually, it looks now like MeeGo is going to have its own niche where it will be the embedded Linux of choice: [...]
Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Infrastructure · Intel · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · SmartPhone