Open Source software has been one of my soapbox subjects for the past two decades. You’ll find it in your smartphone (the Apple iPhone and Android are both based on it), running your car, in your television and much more. It’s Open Source software that has helped thousands of companies develop software solutions that just [...]
Tags: Android·Handhelds·Intel·Intel Corporation·MeeGo·Patent·iphone·opensource
The FBI has confirmed that it’s investigating claims by at least three young celebrities, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and singer Justin Timberlake, that their phones have been hacked. Turns out that smart phones aren’t too smart when it comes to security and that celebrities seem to follow that same trend. The two nude photographs of [...]
Tags: Bluetooth·Celebrity·FBI·Federal Bureau of Investigation·Justin Timberlake·Mila Kunis·Mobile phone·Scarlett Johansson
Microsoft and Intel have been so inter-twined for decades that there’s been a special name for them: WinTel. The “WinTel Monopoly” has required you to run Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and the rest of their core software on Intel hardware only, with few exceptions. There have been a couple of attempts to move away from [...]
Tags: ARM architecture·History of Microsoft Windows·Intel Corporation·Itanium·Microsoft·Microsoft Windows·Steve Ballmer·Windows 8·X86
Good-bye and good luck, Steve. Steve Jobs resigned this week as Apple’s President and is looking to move to Chairman of their Board. It would be difficult to overstate the significance of Steve Jobs to Apple, and harder still to overstate Apple’s influence on the tech sector. Jobs was the towering figure behind a towering [...]
Tags: Apple·Bloomberg L.P.·Job (Biblical figure)·Steve Jobs·Steve Wozniak·Tim Cook·Wheels of Zeus·Woz
20 years ago Thursday, a student named Linus Torvalds announced he was going to be creating a new operating system which he intended to displace Microsoft Windows. Torvalds described Linux as “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional.” Today, we’ve seen Linux being used in most every mid to large-sized company around the world [...]
Tags: Automated teller machine·GNU General Public License·Linus Torvalds·Linux·Linux kernel·Microsoft·Operating system·Unix
This time every year, the world’s largest hacker convention convenes in Las Vegas. Hundreds of network security professionals, both “White Hat” and “Black Hat“, discuss security vulnerabilities which can be used to take over everything from cell phones through Defense Department computers. This isn’t the type of conference you attend with cell phone, tablet and [...]
Tags: Blackhat·Hacker·Mobile phone·OnStar·Richard Perkins·Subaru Outback·White Hat·hack
It’s a sad, sad day for those of us who’ve been around for a while. HP’s Q3 numbers going forward aren’t impressive and their solution is to axe technology that they’ve acquired over the last decade. You know, the technology that they got great deals on, and which helped them become the dominant player in [...]
Tags: Compaq·Digital Equipment Corporation·Hewlett-Packard·Leo Apotheker·Mergers and acquisitions·Palm·Personal computer·Touchpad·WebOS
It’s been more than 30 years since the IBM PC stared to unify the rough-and-tumble personal computer market place of the 1970′s. Its design sparked decades worth of copycats and also-rans which have completely dominated the desktop market. Things are starting to change, and we’re starting to see the decline of the Desktop “PC”. But [...]
Tags: Apple·IBM·IPad·Mark Dean·Microsoft·Personal computer·Smartphone·Tablet PCs
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