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M2M, the Buzzword

The one I am referring to is an abbreviation of Machine to Machine . It's simply a communication mechanism between machines or devices. The communication is done with minimal or no...

15 years 6 months ago

Commercial Open-Source; An Oxymoron?

The dictionary describes Oxymorons as “literary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighboring contradictory words (often within a sentence) or a combination of...

15 years 9 months ago

Open Source Symbian and the Inescapable Truth of Product Lifecycles

The announcement one year ago that Symbian will be open sourced under a license free platform in 1HCY10 was heard around the world. If we are to believe game theory, the...

OpenSAF Developer Days 2009

I just returned from the second annual OpenSAF Developers Days. This was a two-day event that included discussions on the latest developments in the project, some of the new...

The Telecom Consortia Alphabet Soup

What do they all mean and how are they different… I often get asked what is the difference between the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, or what is the difference...

16 years 2 months ago

Avionics 09

I am back in the office after a busy few weeks at Embedded World and Avionics 09 . I read in the news that the third C-130AMP has its first flight ahead of schedule which is...

16 years 2 months ago

Emulation versus Multi-Platform

Over the last little while, when I could steal away a few minutes from my busy day job as of late, I've been thinking more about open platforms for handheld and set top consoles...

16 years 3 months ago

IANAL, BSD, GPL, LGPL, ABCs

Slashdot pointed me to this article by Bruce Parens aimed at clearing some of the air around using GPL and LGPL and commercially licensed product on the same device. Of course, the...

16 years 4 months ago

Can an LGPL Qt give C++ a lift?

Black Duck recently announced their top Rookie Open Source projects for 2008 which using a bit of a weird metric, revealed the top 10 open source projects that were created in 2008...

16 years 4 months ago

Operators return to Barcelona, (this time) armed with Open Source

Scene Setter 26 years after GSM was created to design a pan-European mobile technology, Mobile World Congress number 13 is set to take place in Barcelona in February. This time...

16 years 4 months ago