April 12, 2010
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Usually I write about security here, but Apple’s iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple’s face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within … Continue reading
April 12, 2010
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After covering the war of words over IBM’s use of patents in a business dispute with French start-up TurboHercules and giving my two cents on this open-source family fight, I’d hope the matter would die down. I was wrong. Florien … Continue reading
April 9, 2010
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Do you know why Unix failed to take off as a mainstream operating system? It wasn’t because it was too hard to use. Mac OS X, the universally acclaimed ‘easy’ operating system is built on top of BSD Unix. It’s … Continue reading
April 9, 2010
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The recent attacks on IBM patent use by some in the open-source community are way out of line. First things first, I hate software patents as much as the next open-source supporter, but the recent claims that IBM has betrayed … Continue reading
April 6, 2010
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You might think that you wouldn’t need to worry with any new wireless technologies for your laptop, after 802.11n, with its 100-Megabit per second (Mbps) speeds, finally became a standard. You’d be wrong. Two new technologies, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave … Continue reading
April 6, 2010
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I’m already using the beta of the forthcoming version of Ubuntu 10.04 and I like it a lot. I decided to ask the good people at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, what they thought about the new Ubuntu, scheduled to … Continue reading