With devices taking on important tasks, and more devices coming in to companies, that will be a problem soon.
Closing The Open Source ASP Loophole
What is to be done about companies who use open source software to create something derived from open source, but provide it as a web service and don't contribute their changes back to the community? Aren't they violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the open source agreement? I don't think so, for a variety of reasons.
Google Picks Top 50 Android Developers. Are You One Of Them?
Remember the Android Developer Challenge? Google offered up some prize money to those who submit the best applications for the Android platform. Today, Google said it has whittled the 1,788 entries it received down to the top 50. Each of them earned a $25,000 initial prize, but just what makes a good Android application?
Google Friend Connect Only Half Open
You gotta give Google props for its openness, in terms of its executives speaking in plain English and not treating a launch as an excuse to engage in robotic sloganeering. (Remember "We'll release it when our customers tell us it's ready"?) On the other hand, the problem with Google's new Friend Connect is that it's nowhere near as open as competitive offerings from Facebook and MySpace. Hey, Google, open means open. What part don't you understand?
Apple Makes It Official: No More iPhones Online
Yesterday, reports were surfacing that the iPhone had been completely sold out at the U.S. and U.K. online Apple stores. Apple confirmed the reports. No more iPhone for you.
Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft?
IBM's alignment with Google around Linux and Internet standards should have its longtime rival sweating sans Yahoo.
CIOs Uncensored: GM's CIO: IT Vendors Aren't Helping With Globalization
Ralph Szygenda says IT support and collaboration have a ways to go to catch up with the global trend.
A British government agency has told the European Commission that Microsoft Office works poorly with rival software used in British schools, hurting the interests of learners, teachers and parents.
Powerset aims to prove that its natural language-based search makes it easier to find things on Wikipedia and Freebase, an open community database.
Hewlett-Packard will buy Electronic Data Systems for $25.00 per share, or about $12.6 billion, to better compete against IBM.
The company touts its newly released Site Recovery Manager as an automation agent that takes over to shift workloads with existing data to the recovery site.
Much of the information on Nokia's mapping service is from mapmaker Navteq, which Nokia announced in October it planned to acquire for $8.1 billion.
In its quarter ended March 31, Apple sold 1.7 million of the devices, which combine a mobile phone, iPod media player and Web surfing.
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