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Matchstick Launches The Flint Open Source Streaming Platform With New Hardware Partnerships
AOC and TCL join Matchstick to develop and market a target one million streaming devices in 2015 using the Flint platform...
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Microsoft May Be Planning Its Own Platform Play With HealthVault + Smartwatch Combo
Rumors of a new health-focused wristwatch from Microsoft have been swirling for some time now, and a digital health industry source told VentureBeat that those rumors are true...
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Microsoft Taps Former Linux-Bashing Team To Get Open Source Developers Excited About Azure Cloud
Microsoft has changed the mission of an internal team that used to highlight shortcomings in open source software, and is now using it to recruit open source developers.
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Mozilla And Mobile Operators Want To Make The Web More Global And Diverse
Firefox-maker Mozilla and the GSMA mobile operator trade body are teaming up to help develop more non-English content for the web, so as to “positively shape” the future of the mobile web – and they’re looking for others to join them...
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Mozilla Holds Its Nose And Supports DRM Video In Firefox
The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says...
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Mozilla's $25 Firefox OS Phones Look To Score In India
The alternative to Android and iOS is geared for low-budget markets, and it's about to hit one of the biggest in the world. Will that price tag light a fire?
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Noom’s Android Fitness App Another Example Of Why Smartphones Are The Original Wearable Computers
For aspiring Quantified Selfers who don’t want to bother with additional hardware, Noom has launched a new smartphone-based pedometer app. Read More »
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ONC Announces Winners of Blue Button + Challenge
The winner of ONC’s Blue Button Co-Design Challenge, the third challenge this year, is GenieMD! What was the focus of this Blue Button Challenge? This Challenge tasked developers with creating apps that implement and use Blue Button + functionality to address one of several patient problems. [...]
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ONC fail: EHR 'data blocking' still rampant
Manuel Prado, president of Viva Transcription, Santa Cruz, Calif., publicly complained two years ago about the high interface fees – up to $10,000 – that electronic health record vendors charged for each hospital or physician practice they connect to his transcription service. “That's data blocking,” he charged. “If taxpayers are contributing $44,000 or $63,000 (in federal Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments) for each EHR, it's not too much to ask” that they make interconnect charges free.
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Open Source Software Has to Sell User Experience
Mattermost does open source the right way. Open source software that is to succeed in this new world is going to have to be better than anything else. You can't sell just openness anymore; it is added value, not a unique selling point. Open source software now has to sell user experience. In a way it is a simpler metric, and probably one that is going to change open source forever—for the better. An exemplar of this new way is Mattermost, the open source messaging platform. Sure, they weren't first to the game, because Slack blazed the trail...
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Open Thread: Microsoft Health's Big Advantage Is Cross-Platform Support
Microsoft has been winning generally approving headlines for its Microsoft Band fitness tracker and accompanying Microsoft Health platform, since both were revealed – seemingly unintentionally at first – on Wednesday...
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Report Finds Health, Fitness Apps Lag in Privacy Polices Compared to Other Apps
Health and fitness apps may potentially reveal data-enabled insights into the daily lives of those who use them, but what they sometimes fail to reveal are the ways they use the data collected on users. A recent study from the Future of Privacy Forumfound that -- compared with other apps in the iOS and Android marketplaces -- health and fitness apps lag in privacy policies, with about 60 percent offering such information compared to 76 percent of general apps...
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Round-Up: Open Source Technologies Are Key To The Growth Of Internet Of Things
Today, there are numerous products that allow the exchange of information on the Internet, but there is little real interoperability. Companies that make fact-based device platforms and proprietary applications may be stifling the creation of a complete ecosystem...
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Steve Jobs: An Open Source Pioneer? You Bet
One wouldn’t think of Apple’s Steve Jobs as an open source pioneer. But he was. Apple’s 10-year-old Mac OS X is a closed source operating system with open source components.It is based in part on Darwin, an open source OS originally developed by Apple in 2000 which incorporates code from Jobs’ NextStep, BSD and other free software, according to Wikipedia. The BSD code in MacOSX, Read More »
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Telefonica Vivo Welcomes LG Fireweb in Brazil; Company’s First Firefox OS Smartphone
LG has unveiled its first Firefox-powered smartphone called the "Fireweb," which was launched in Brazil under Telefonica Vivo's network Tuesday, followed by other parts of Latin America.
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