Open Source Delivers

Every year the movers and shakers of the mobile/wireless industry converge upon the industry’s mecca, the Mobile World Congress (MWC).  This year’s ecosystem extravaganza in Barcelona drew 1,500 exhibitors and [...]

Yesterday I spoke with Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst serving application development & delivery professionals at Forrester, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  Please check out the video, below, for Jeff’s [...]

On the mobile o/s battlefield there are three Linux-based operating systems fighting to establish themselves along with the big boys of Android and iOS. Two of these are relatively new [...]

Not every application should provide a game-like experience, but game-like animations, sounds, mechanics, and user interfaces are appearing more and more in the latest mobile and web applications. This information [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about Nokia and Microsoft partnering on the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) lately, including concern over amount of apps available for the platform (especially [...]

We got another reminder of how disruptive open source software is to mobile computing this week, when Linux and Android merged back together. This appears to be good news for [...]

The Linux desktop was always thought to be a requirement for the full success of Linux. For, if the desktop interface wasn’t easy to use, cool even, then hundreds of [...]

The largest trade event in the mobile industry, the Mobile World Congress (MWC), is taking place this week in Barcelona. Reporting from the show, MarketWatch’s Kim Hjelmgaard said that he [...]

I just got back from the Linux Foundation’s second Android Builders Summit (ABS) in Redwood City, California, where most of the approximately 250 attendees were hard-core, experienced embedded Linux developers. [...]