Issue highlights 1. A serious plan to fix Windows 8 2. Dual persona smartphones non grata at Starz 3. F5 bridges the physical and virtual worlds at Microsoft Tech Ed 4. Looks like Feedly wins the Google Reader expat crown 5. Report: US President Obama to announce measures against patent trolls 6. How the 'internet of things' can spark an open source community 7. Video patents have their foot on the throats of our video screens 8. I'm ditching Windows Phone 8 again, but not without reservations 9. Meet the unlocked Android phone you can feel good about using 10. Turkey protesters set precedent with Twitter usage 11. Small PC shop blasts Dell and HP, makes some good points |
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| Microsoft didn't fail to execute a good plan; it succeeded in executing a horrible plan. InfoWorld has a good plan READ MORE |
| Among several BYOD strategies Starz has tried over the past five years, dual persona smartphones -- offering employees a business and personal interface -- took off like a lead balloon. READ MORE |
| Microsoft's virtualization software, Hyper-V, is rapidly gaining traction and is a serious threat to VMware's dominance. At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference, F5 will be showcasing its upcoming appliance-based gateway with support for network virtualization using generic routing encapsulation (NVGRE). READ MORE |
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| Feedly, the free RSS service that has been the safe harbor for millions of Internet refugees fleeing the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader, announced Monday that several popular RSS apps will access its API free of charge. READ MORE |
| U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent-holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. READ MORE |
| Ninja Blocks is open source hardware and software for connecting the analog world of sensors and actuators with web services. It's is an off-the-shelf way for people with many different skill sets to gain experience building the "internet-of-things." Ninja Blocks has an enthusiastic following among tinkerers, inventors, engineers and software developers. It is a derivative or the Raspberry Pie and Arduino phenomena, but besides having great ratings, what is Ninja Blocks' business strategy? If the Ninja Block design becomes widely adopted and grows virally, the system might employ an open source model proven by companies like Redhat. READ MORE |
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| There has been quite a bit written lately about Google "caving in" and licensing H.264 patents from the MPEG LA group, effectively killing off VP 8 as a potential rival to H.264. To me, it is obvious that Google sized up the claims of the MPEG LA group and realized that they had a very strong hand. Google realized they couldn't win. READ MORE |
| Back in January, I got my hands on a Nokia Lumia 920 and decided to give Windows Phone 8 an honest try. I'm a fan of Windows 8 and I own a Surface tablet, so I thought it might be cool to somewhat unify all of my computing platforms and immerse myself in all things Microsoft. As you can read in the original post, my experiment did not end well. This time around, I'm still going back to Android, but not for a lack of features or improvements on the Nokia. READ MORE |
| There are a lot of truly great-looking open source platforms for powering your smartphone. Not just great-looking, but powerful too. And, because these are all Open Source (to one degree or another), you can feel good about them from a social/ethical perspective. But what about the hardware? READ MORE |
| While Twitter and other social media have been used prominently in other large protest efforts, such as the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt and several global Occupy events, protesters in Taksim Square in Istanbul appear to be using it more aggressively and independently than any before them. READ MORE |
| With PC sales down by double-digit percentages, it's the end of the PC era as we know it, it's all about tablets from here on in, yadda yadda yadda. Well, it's not, says the feisty CEO of Razer, maker of gaming PCs and equipment. Min-Liang Tan pulled no punches in his interview with The Verge, discussing why PC sales are down, saying giants like HP and Dell aren't billing themselves as PC companies and making no attempt at innovation in that space. READ MORE |
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