Read about my discussion of WebOS with HP’s open source officer at OSCON, over on ComputerWorldUK now.
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☞ Smart Build
Posted on August 17, 2011 by Simon Phipps
SmartOS.org A new operating system distribution emerges from the OpenSolaris/Illumos legacy. An excellent piece of work technically, bringing all the strengths that Solaris bequeathed to Illumos into union with the strength of KVM and pragmatically binding them together with BSD packaging. The real questions will be around licensing since this package blends all three licensing [...]
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☞ Control Points
Posted on August 16, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Welcome to the Cloud – “Your Apple ID has been disabled.” By introducing remote control points we risk more and more of this. Since the holders of the control point usually have little incentive to treat your case as a priority, the outcome is frustrating, slow and indefinite. Strongly federated identity anchored in an organisation [...]
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☞ Anti-Social Media Policy
Posted on August 15, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Google’s Real Names Policy Is Evil This policy is amazingly misguided – it’s like Franco trying to stamp out Catalan by banning baby names not on the state list. Is G+ actively blocking suspended users from viewing public sites? I can’t help thinking the people working on this project need reigning in for a while. [...]
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♫ Artist Sampler Is A Masterpiece
Posted on August 14, 2011 by Simon Phipps
If you enjoy listening to good singer-songwriter music, chances are that you’ll love the sampler that Amazon.Com is giving away free this week (sadly the same sampler is £7.11 from Amazon.co.uk although it’s worth paying for in my view). The earlier sampler from the same label (with many of the same artists) was great too, [...]
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☞ Monopolist-in-waiting
Posted on August 11, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit It’s not enough to be the richest company in the world. Everyone else has to fail as well. Apple ruling blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab shipments across EU Reading around this subject, it is really hard to imagine a tablet computer design that would not fall foul [...]
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☝ Amazon Escapes The App Trap
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Simon Phipps
As I predicted in June, Amazon has quietly launched read.amazon.com, a full-featured HTML 5 version of the Kindle that runs perfectly on the iPad, looks for all the world like a native application after it’s been added to the iPad home screen as an icon and can even store books to read offline. Goodbye, Apple [...]
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☆ OggCamp Approaching
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Simon Phipps
If you’re in the south of England (or want to travel here) don’t forget that OggCamp is being held this weekend. OggCamp 11 is a free two-day unconference (unscheduled conference) for anyone who loves anything related to technology, data, culture, community, open source…and more! It’s in Farnham, just off the M3, and you’ll want to [...]
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☞ … and in other news …
Posted on August 9, 2011 by Simon Phipps
LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org: Showdown for Best Open Source Office Suite If LibreOffice maintains the pace of improvement Brian describes here, by the time work on OpenOffice resumes next year (yes, I really think it will take that long) the gap will be huge. phpvirtualbox – A web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP This looks like [...]
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☆ Responding to the Bling Riots
Posted on August 9, 2011 by Simon Phipps
First, let me say I think the inexplicable thuggery that’s going on in London (and elsewhere) is indefensible and the people doing it without respect for people or property are despicable. They deserve everything they have coming to them. But if we want to stop more of them emerging, we need to realise that a [...]
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