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Can This Nonprofit Destroy Apple's iOS And Google's Android?
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the popular Firefox browser, wants to disrupt the smartphone industry. It recently released the first update to Firefox OS, its open-source mobile-operating system. Read More »
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China Puts Microsoft Under Official Investigation
Government investigators visited Microsoft offices in four Chinese cities Monday, according to a company spokeswoman. Microsoft, like other U.S. technology giants in recent months, has been under fire from Chinese media for its perceived role in helping the U.S government conduct cyberhacking against China...
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Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft and others
It could be that Sam Ramji is just an eternal optimist. While many free software advocates warn that the cloud could kill open source, because users won't have access to the source code, Ramji disagrees. He says that work is going on now to eliminate the legal liabilities of contributing to open source. Read More »
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CommonWell Branches Into Acute Care, Eyes Apple Users
Moving toward post-acute care and Apple users, the CommonWell Health Alliance added two new members. Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Brightree is CommonWell's first exclusively post-acute vendor, with a sizable footprint in fast-growing home health sector. Officials said its addition will offer new opportunities to extend nteroperability to in-home care.
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Cracking The Apple Trap
At first, I thought it was my imagination. Around the time the iPhone 5S and 5C were released, in September, I noticed that my sad old iPhone 4 was becoming a lot more sluggish. The battery was starting to run down much faster, too. But the same thing seemed to be happening to a lot of people who, like me, swear by their Apple products... Read More »
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Critical Bluetooth Flaws Put Over 5 Billion Devices At Risk Of Hacking
Bluetooth is one of the most popular short-range wireless communications technologies in use today and is built into many types of devices, from phones, smartwatches and TVs to medical equipment and car infotainment systems. Many of those devices are now at risk of being hacked due to critical flaws found in the Bluetooth implementations of the operating systems they use. Over the past several months, a team of researchers from IoT security firm Armis have been working with Google, Microsoft, Apple and Linux developers, to silently coordinate the release of patches for eight serious vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to completely take over Bluetooth-enabled devices or to hijack their Internet traffic.
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Declining iOS And OS X Quality Imperil Apple's Future Growth And Retention
...A growing chorus of developers and Apple-watchers is raising the alarm that the buggy releases of iOS 8 and Yosemite are part of a systemic decline in the quality of Apple’s software...
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Deep Dive: Software Patents And The Rise Of Patent Trolls
Beloved podcasts like the Adam Carolla Show and HowStuffWorks are under attack. They and other podcasts are getting sued for, well, podcasting. And they're not the only victims—developers are being targeted for building mobile apps, and offices around the nation are being attacked for using ordinary networked scanners. Read More »
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Democratizing Deep Learning With An iPhone App And Open Source SDK
Most people will never have the computer science knowledge to become deep-learning researchers, but now they can test out the results of that work with a simple computer vision iPhone app called Deep Belief. iOS developers can take Deep Belief a step further by downloading an open source software development kit and working its object-recognition capabilities into their own apps.
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Developers: We Warned Apple About iOS Maps Quality
To the casual observer it might appear that Apple was caught off guard by just how bad its in-house maps app was. But the company had plenty of warning. Read More »
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Digital Health’s Dirty Little Secrets Revealed
Digital health is hot. Consider the evidence...
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Does Apple's HealthKit Prove FDA Guidance Is Working?
Skepticism remains over the Food & Drug Administration’s regulation of mobile health. The approach will just slow innovation, as Scott Gottlieb, MD, an American Enterprise Institute analyst and former FDA deputy commissioner, argued recently in the Wall Street Journal...
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Does Regulation Destroy Innovation Or Save It?
With election day fast approaching, entrepreneurs will soon have a chance to cast a vote for president that in some way expresses how they feel about the government’s role in fostering innovation. Read More »
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Does The iPad Actually Facilitate Better Patient Care?
Since Apple unveiled the iPad, the device has been lauded for its promise to enhance the way doctors deliver and patients engage with healthcare. Yet the results of a recent survey may be reason enough for Apple iPad boosters to seek treatment themselves. Read More »
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Doubletalk: Geeksphone Revolution Dual-OS Smartphone
Open-source enthusiasts have hailed Mozilla’s Firefox smartphone operating system as a liberation from the power and intrusiveness of Google, Apple and Microsoft, who each demand your soul in return for getting the most out of their mobile OSes. The open-source crowd may have a point, though a larger number of commentators are of the opinion that Firefox OS is an answer to a question nobody’s really asking...
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