Archive for July, 2009

Jul 29 2009

Libreplanet, Android, Funambol, Symbian, Ubuntu, Gnome, Mozilla and more at OSCON

Published by Stef under community, eng

OSCON 2009 was as good as I thought it would be. This year there was no mobile specific track but lots of talks about cloud computing. I met very interesting people, attaching faces and voices to email addresses and identi.ca accounts. The BoF about mobile cloud gave me the chance to discuss ideas with [...]

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Jul 17 2009

Mobile Cloud Computing, Part II: Where do We go From Here?

Published by Stef under business, community, funambol

Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so.
In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can all talk about at OSCON — I’ll try to find answers to this question: as [...]

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Jul 10 2009

The cost of monopoly in the cloud

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Reading of the latest cyber attacks against South Korea and USA digital systems, I remembered a rather old post from Gen Kanai @Mozilla, the cost of a monoculture. It’s about monopoly, government decisions and security in the cloud.
[South Korea] is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows.
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Jul 09 2009

Google plans to own you. More.

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Finally Google revealed its plans to enter the operating system market. The first thing that comes to mind are chairs flying in Microsoft offices The other thing comes from this statement:
“All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies,” the company said.
It means cloud computing, [...]

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Jul 07 2009

Thoughts on mobile cloud computing

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Mobile cloud computing represents an opportunity for the free/libre open source software movement that is just as big and radical as cloud computing, maybe even moreso. This is part 1 of a post about it, part 2 will follow shortly.
By the end of 2009, 4 billion people will use mobile phones. By 2013, that number [...]

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