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Samsung scores against Apple in NL
If you’ve been following the European version of Apple vs Samsung saga, here is a piece of news from a person I trust, the tl;dr version: Apple has LOST all claims wrt the european patent 2098948. The court thinks that … Continue reading
Victims of good marketing
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Apple forces bad user experience on Funambol
I installed Funambol on an iOS device to test it and all went well… until I tried to sync the pictures. I was greeted with the request to allow Funambol to access my location, request that I promptly denied. Why … Continue reading
Who put age restrictions on Firefox Home?
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Putting Firefox Mobile on Apple’s iOS
Apple doesn’t allow another browser Firefox (apparently there are other browsers) on its iOS devices, so Firefox Mobile cannot run natively on iPhone/iPod/iPad. Enter Mozilla Home, the hack used by Mozilla Foundation to allow Mozilla desktop users to bring their … Continue reading
East and West coast so far apart: Moglen vs Jobs
June 6th 2011 was a strange day. Facing the Pacific ocean Steve Jobs was describing his perfect plan to know which books you read, what magazines you buy, what music you listen, who you correspond with, who you love and … Continue reading
Stories from the most revered brand in tech
A normal day for an Apple customer: my nine-year-old daughter, Flora, bought a new £39 iPod shuffle with her pocket money, and I treated myself to an iPhone 4. I connected the shuffle to our computer, but a message came … Continue reading
Apple and software freedom clashing again
Another app has to be removed from the Apple iTunes mobile App Store. This time, after GNU Go, it’s the iOS port of the popular free VLC Player because the terms of the GNU General Public License are incompatible with … Continue reading
Do you like the new sticker from Defective by Design?
The campaign to free the digital world from Digital Restrictions Management just got a new sticker. The old one is on my laptop’s screen represents the famous iPod silhouettes with white wires acting as shackles. It was a simple and … Continue reading
Beyond removing GNU software from mobile stores
Last week the Free Software Foundation asked Apple to either remove the game GNU Go from the iTunes App Store or change the terms of service on it. Apple chose to simply remove GNU Go from the store and the … Continue reading
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