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Mozilla CEO Stumps for Openness on Mobile Web

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Gary Kovacs, CEO of the open source browser maker Mozilla, is worried that history might repeat itself. Kovacs recalled the early days of the commercial Web, when AOL dominated both access and content and users were content to discover email, news, sports and other services and content within the dial-up firm's walled garden. He believes those walled gardens are returning.

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    Average U.S. smartphone user has 41 apps on their device by Brad Reed

    Nielsen has some interesting new data out today about Americans' smartphone usage.  The big takeaway: Americans love their mobile apps.How much do they love mobile apps, you ask?  For starters, the average number of apps on a typical smartphone has jumped from 32 to 41 over the past year, an increase of 28%.  Second, the average American smartphone user spends roughly 81% of their time using apps on their smartphone versus 19% of the time on the mobile web.  Last year, that...

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    The big question: Does Google really know how to make an Android device better than anyone else? by Brad Reed

    The Wall Street Journal today reports that Google is planning to release a slew of Nexus-branded devices from a host of different manufacturers. Google plans to give multiple mobile-device makers early access to new releases of Android and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter. That is a shift from Google’s previous practice, when it joined with with only one hardware maker at a time to produce “lead devices,” before releasing the software to...

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    Tab syncing highlights the latest Google Chrome update by Brad Reed

    The good news: The latest version of Chrome allows you to sync up tabs on your desktop PC with tabs on your smartphone and tablet.  The bad news: Chrome for Android is still in beta testing, meaning that it's only available on a limited number of devices.All the same, this seems like a pretty sweet little innovation.  As an information junkie, I often start reading a really cool article in the morning and then get interrupted by the need to drive to work (the tyranny!).  By the...

  • Alan Shimel

    Open Source Fact and Fiction

    Is The Jailbreak Community Contaminated By Leeches? by Alan Shimel

    I have spoken to many an open source developer who felt that many in the open source community were parasites. Primarily they mean companies who take open source code, profit commercially from it, but don't give anything back to the community. The facts are though that well over 90% (probably closer to 98%) of open source community members just consume open source product and contribute no code back at all.  Yes, some do beta testing and find bugs, but the success of many open source...

  • OpenLogic's Wazi

    The Wazi Blog

    Installing and Running Liferay by OpenLogic Wazi

    The Java-based Liferay intranet portal offers an organization’s users the ability to publish and collaborate on documents and web content, and offers social networking features.

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    Samsung lists T-Mobile phones due for Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade by Brad Reed

    Good news for T-Mobile Android fans -- Samsung will upgrade (some of) your devices to Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") after all!Over the past few weeks, Samsung released a list of Android devices that were slated to receive ICS on Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, but none for T-Mobile.  Today that changed as Samsung announced that the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will all get Ice Cream Sandwich in the...

  • Rikki Kite

    Open Source Matters

    Buskers: Better Than Booth Babes by Rikki Endsley

    Years ago I worked for a large company that hired "booth babes" to "help" us run our booth at LinuxWorld in New York. These hired models sat on stools and gossiped with each other as I and another editor — also a woman — talked to attendees and gave out free copies of our magazine. What a waste of money those models turned out to be. Thankfully, I've never been stuck (wo)manning a booth with one since then. Maybe there's a time and place for models at expo halls, but I assure you that it's not...

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    The Tablet Claw promo video shows just how boring our lives have become by Brad Reed

    I get an insane number of PR pitches over the course of the day.  Most of them go straight into the trash, some of them are followed-up on and made into stories, and some occasionally catch my eye for reasons that their senders probably weren't expecting.  In the case of the Tablet Claw -- a tablet holder that you can use to stand up your tablet on your kitchen counter, desk, etc. -- it was the promotional video they sent along: Let's go over all the major events that happen in...

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    Facebook's proposed app store: I think this could actually work by Brad Reed

    As if we didn't have enough places to buy mobile apps on our devices, it seems that Facebook is going to jump into the game with a mobile app store of its own.  Let's go to VentureBeat, which got the scoop this morning:Facebook is launching a new App Center, “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps” — and not just Facebook apps.The App Center will bring Facebook’s 900 million users all the best in iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, mobile web apps, and even...

  • Tales from the Support Front

    Support etiquette by Nathan Daniel

    Last week, in my post A little tip from support: just breathe, I offered advice for frustrated IT managers when encountering everyday IT problems. Walking away from the problem so you can look at it from a new angle is often all an IT manager needs to do to figure out the solution. But there are many cases when simply taking a break isn’t enough and the IT person must call technical support. It’s what we are here for, so if an IT department needs help with a product, call away. For the times...

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