Android My First Android Experience: intriguing, extremely encouraging but a bit disappointing I recently got my hands on a Nexus One, which believe it or not is my first Android-based phone. I've been trying to acquire an N1 for quite some time now, so after finally tracking an AT&T version down it quite simply couldn't ship
Android Google Android outsells Apple iPhone in Q1 of 2010 From the article: Smartphones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system have outsold Apple’s iPhone in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group. The data places Android, with 28 percent of the smartphone market, in second
Apple End Runs Around Vista? BusinessWeek recently ran an article that indicated that HP may be working on a version of Linux to ship on its hardware: The ecosystem that Microsoft (MSFT) has built up around its Windows operating system is showing signs of strain. In one of several recent moves by partners that sell
Apple Apple iPhone 2.0 Upgrade == FAIL A note to Apple. I find it astonishing that you have created an upgrade procedure that can fail in a way that leaves the phone useless. You had 6+ months to prepare for this, so error messages like this are just inexcusable. Google, please hurry up with Android ;) --jeremy
Apple Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? It looks like some think that OS X may be "killing" Linux on the desktop. I'm not sure that's the case, but it's an interesting point to explore. It's true that Apple has a much higher percentage of desktop users
Apple Apple Support Did you know that if you walk into an Apple store with a broken iPhone, in this case a roughly one inch horizontal band on the touch screen that doesn't register anything, they actually tell you to make an appointment and come back another time? I don'
Apple Where's my Gphone? Google finally made the highly anticipated Gphone related announcement today: Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than
Adobe Some LinuxQuestions.org Stats Every once and a while I like to post a quick update that includes some stats about LQ. Here are a couple for the month of October 2007. Browsers * A total of 277 distinct Browsers visited LQ last month. Those with more than 1%: Firefox61.99% IE24.14% Mozilla5.50%
Apple Apple: "we plan to have an iPhone SDK in developers' hands in February" Apple has finally officially announced a real SDK for the iPhone. From the Apple announcement: Third Party Applications on the iPhone Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited
Apple Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell II (A follow up to previous coverage) As you may have guessed, this topic is being discussed heavily around the web. Mark Radcliffe points out that Open Source companies are likely becoming a more tempting target to patent trolls due to the stunning growth in the sector (keep in mind that
Apple Are people still having issues with iPods and Linux? I ask this because, much to my surprise, this three year old post about the iPod working out of the box in Fedora gets a surprising number of views on a daily basis. All the requests are the result of web searches, which makes me wonder if people really are
Apple Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell Earlier this month, Ballmer reiterated his stance on patents and Linux: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property. "People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a
Apple New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux II A quick follow up to this post. Well, it didn't take long. I didn't expect that it would. While the instructions are still a bit convoluted, I'm sure that will change soon enough as well. I just wish companies would stop making it difficult
Apple New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux While the title of this Boing Boing article is a little sensationalistic (the move was almost certainly aimed at iTunes lockin, with Linux being collateral damage) it's not too far off the mark: The latest iPods have a cryptographic "checksum" in their song databases that prevents
Apple The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit One of the core tenants of Open Source is the ability to fork. That being said, it should really be seen as a last resort type of option. It's good to see that a couple of "unforks" have happened recently. A short time ago, Beryl and
Apple OpenMoko While the iPhone has been getting all the press, something seriously interesting has been happening in the Open Source mobile space. OpenMoko devices are becoming available. From a Wired Blog: After seemingly endless delays, the OpenMoko phone is here. The first version of the NEO 1973 mobile phone, which carries
Apple The iPhone, 48 hours later So, I've had an iPhone for a bit over 48 hours now. My impression? First the good: * The Web experience on this thing is absolutely phenomenal. Despite having a smaller screen, it's even better than the N800. The zoom functionality and real browser are a breath
Apple May break down and get an iPhone Against my better judgment and despite knowing better, I think I'm going to head over and see if I can get my hands on an iPhone. Will someone please come out with a decent Linux smartphone? I'd even settle for a Palm Treo that doesn'
Apple Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma says iPhone will fail The iPhone has to be one of the most hyped devices I've seen in a long time. Many of the reviews so far seem to indicate that the device actually lives up to the hype, which is no small feat. It's interesting to see that Clayton
Apple EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads It was just a matter of time, but it finally happened. One of the major labels (EMI currently stands at number three) jumped ship and will be offering DRM free music. This isn't a case of offering some tracks without DRM or a limited time deal - this
Apple The iPhone and Open Platforms When I first saw the presentation on the iPhone, I have to admit I was impressed. Even though it was 6 months away, it just looked so nice. A huge screen, a real OS on it, that Apple polish - my only real concern was how I would like typing
Apple Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors Apple has recently announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be joining the Apple board of directors. People seem to think this will mean more support for Mac OS X in Google products, but it hasn't exactly worked out that way for Oracle or Intuit (Larry Ellison and
