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Many of my friends keep asking me what I think of the iPhone, if it’s good and whether they should buy one. They are all non-techie people that want a very good phone and are willing to pay the extra money for a good handset that does email and web navigation, and a decent phone [...]

Tags: apple, community, freedom, iphone, mac, nda, tivoization

Open Warfare at OsCon
A summary of the OpenMobile Exchange session from Monday at OSCON.
(tags: oscon funambol conference)

Usually it’s the speaker that is photographed, this time I took the chance to take a picture of the people listening to my speech at OSCON2008 for Funambol. Quite some people where there and they seem interested into “Leveraging Mobile Open Source for New Wireless Apps and Services”.
It was a very interesting session, Surj Patel [...]

Tags: community, funambol, oscon

I’ll participate to one of the biggest convention in the world run by O’Reilly.  I’ll be in Portland next week, following especially the Open Mobile Exchange sessions for Funambol.  See you there, I hope

Tags: community, funambol, oscon

Yesterday I talked about SyncEvolution as one of the two options to sync contacts on Mac OS X using myFUNAMBOL. Today it’s time to introduce the other option: the Funambol Plugin for Mac OS X, contributed in his spare time by Kevin Lovette (a hacker of the Funambol Professional Services team). Like Patrick started SyncEvolution [...]

Tags: apple, funambol, mac, myfunambol, os x, sync, syncevolution

While the world goes crazy with the iPhone, I decided to spend some time testing the two options for syncing on Mac OS X using myFUNAMBOL. There are two options available, both are community contributions. Today’s post is about SyncEvolution, contributed by Patrick Ohly.
Patrick Ohly’s SyncEvolution provides the missing link between Mac OSX and SyncML. [...]

Tags: apple, funambol, mac, myfunambol, os x, sync, syncevolution

451 CAOS Theory » Is social responsibility the key to corporate contributions?
Comments by Matthew Aslett about Free Software and Corporate Social Responsibilty
(tags: corporate+social+responsibility fsfi index free+software business+ethics free+software+business)

Open Source and Social Responsibility, some random thoughts | Commercial Open Source Software
Roberto’s comments on Corporate Social Responsibility and FLOSS
(tags: fsfi corporate+social+responsibility free+software+business)

Sun Microsystems 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility [...]

Bradley is right to be excited for the phone call he received from a socially responsible investment company. While social responsibility has become a big issue for many companies, corporate reports focus mainly on projects to protect the environment, to sustain developing countries and to improve working conditions of their employees and contractors. So far, [...]

Tags: csr, free software business, fsf, fsfi, index, social responsibility