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August 10 2008
My friend and occasional business partner Jay Phillips heads the open source project Adhearsion, which is attempting to broaden adoption of the Asterisk platform by allowing people to develop applications in Ruby. He recently wrote a lengthy post on his blog that details many of the issues facing the Asterisk… read moreResearch Report: Symbian, Android to Merge [OStatic]
July 25 2008
Nokia's recent acquisition of Symbian and the subsequent open sourcing of the platform, in addition to their acquisition of Trolltech earlier, have cemented the company as a leader in open source mobile platforms. Google's Android project has garnered interest from industry leaders and carriers worldwide. Research firm J. Gold and… read moreCloudy Saturday: Roll Your Own Cloud with Enomalism [OStatic]
June 14 2008
As we saw with last week's column, plumbing is what cloud computing is all about. Your company will likely be using cloud computing techniques to manage computing resources very soon if you aren't already. These concepts apply equally well to big enterprise and small startups, companies that own their infrastructure… read moreDigium Releases new Switchvox Product: Price Still an Issue for Many [OStatic]
June 09 2008
Open Source Asterisk PBX maker Digium released it's widely anticipated mid-range appliance today called the AA300. The product is a custom PC intended for businesses that need around 150 telephones, and it runs Switchvox SMB software. Since the acquisition of Switchvox in 2007, Digium has made it the focus of… read moreCloudy Saturday: Puppet for automating Virtual Machines [OStatic]
June 07 2008
The open source world is rife with projects that try to automate the management of systems. The most notable and most mature until now had been Cfengine. Luke Kanies was a member of the team that helped build Cfengine and he saw an opportunity, along with partner Andrew Schafer, to… read moreMars Phoenix Lander - A Victory for Open Source [OStatic]
May 26 2008
Space agencies were some of the first places you could find open source software "in the wild". Being natural early adopters, cash-strapped and very inquisitive they naturally took to the concept. Additionally they were some of the first users of ARPAnet and subsequently the Internet which gave birth to this… read morePhoenix Mars Lander - A Victory for Open Source [OStatic]
May 26 2008
Space agencies were some of the first places where you could find open source software "in the wild". Being natural early adopters, cash-strapped and very inquisitive, the agencies naturally took to the open source concept. Additionally they were some of the first users of ARPAnet and subsequently the Internet, which… read moreGit Spawns a Business [OStatic]
May 26 2008
The up-and-coming version control system git has begun to prove its mettle outside of Linux kernel development. The Ruby on Rails community has embraced it wholeheartedly with many core projects migrating to the system recently. The climate has become right for businesses to spring up in the wake of this… read moreThe Open Source Cloud [OStatic]
May 22 2008
While many cloud/utility computing services have sprung up over the past few years, the adoption of their management techniques in the open source world has not. Most people don't need or want to build a large-scale computing cluster in their own business, but they could use some of the automation… read moreWeinberger: Delaminate the Bastards!
July 09 2007
David Weinberger, in a recent essay, suggests that in order to preserve net neutrality we must “delaminate” the telco’s service from their infrastructure. We must fundamentally change the way that telcos do business: “Delaminate the bastards. The only way to get Net Neutrality with teeth is by changing the business models… read moreiPhone Activated. First Impressions.
July 04 2007
After some amount of pain I got my iPhone activated by a kind group of folks at AT&T who were assigned to “fix problems that people on the Internet were having”. A kind man named Thomas helped me through the process of converting my account from corporate to individual, getting… read moreiPhone first impressions: What happened to "It Just Works"?
June 30 2007
A gorgeous phone…That i can’t use. I had hope that Apple’s integration of the usually complicated and obtuse world of mobile phone activation into iTunes would actually make things easier for the user. Unfortunately we have been given a nasty glimpse into the even MORE complicated and obtuse world of the… read moreApple's iPhone Marketing Machine. Is it enough?
June 25 2007
I’ve been watching with a mix of anticipation and doubt the ongoing reportage of the Apple iPhone launch. Without a doubt it is the most genius marketing campaign I’ve seen of late. Starting with the early announcement of the device and dominating headlines Macworld Expo in January 2007, the machine… read moreJune 20 2007
The Nokia N95 that I’ve been using for the past couple of months has forgotten how its volume keys work. It makes me super sad to say that even though Nokia made a great telephone, it’s not above certain mechanical difficulties that befall all of our devices from time to… read moreUS MVNO "Troubles" are overblown
June 04 2007
The bankruptcy filing by US MVNO Amp’d over the weekend was very high profile, sad and, to many of us who cover the industry, not all that surprising. Amp’d had amassed a reported 200,000 subscribers and burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to build a broad-market MVNO. It hasn’t… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
