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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MySQL isn't the only mature and feature-rich open source database; rival PostgreSQL can be an equally good choice. And if you know how to manage MySQL, you can learn how to handle PostgreSQL fairly quickly.
Just wanted to give a heads up that over on my "Open Network" podcast here on Network World I have posted my interview with Steve Hannah. Steve is someone I have known for years in the tech industry and really a remarkable fellow. He is a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks, but is also the co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) group. Steve is instrumental in defining open standards that allow many security and networking vendors to allow their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Mark Gibbs looks at the implications of Oracle's ownership of the venerable operating system and concludes that Solaris could not only damage your career but your credibility as well.
Articles courtesy of OpenLogic.OpenLogic provides enterprises with technical support, provisioning and compliance tools for open source projects.
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Brad Reed: Google Reed-er
Stephen Walli Open Minded
Alan Shimel: Open Source Fact and Fiction
Rikki Endsley: Open Source Matters
Joe Brockmeier: Open Source Report
Wazi: The Wazi Blog
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