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Why NASA Is Firing Cell Phones Into Space

Brian Fung | Nextgov | April 24, 2013

Today, in NASA Is the Best: The space agency this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they'd fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do with science. But it's not a stunt. Read More »

Why Tizen Will Be A Game-Changer

Jared Weiner | LinuxGismos.com | March 20, 2013

In this guest column, Jared Weiner, an analyst at VDC Research, presents four reasons why he believes Samsung’s first Tizen-based smartphone, expected to arrive this summer, is likely to be a game-changer. Read More »

Why We Shouldn’t Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit ‘Platforms’

Ryan Rossier | HIT Consultant | October 17, 2016

It’s no secret that getting people to engage in their health is one of our generation’s biggest challenges. Digital health engagement, especially, is often discussed as “a huge opportunity,” but the reality is that while people are interested in their health, it’s still incredibly difficult to get them to use digital tools consistently. Enacting behavior change is still a mostly elusive process...

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Windows 8 Destroyed PC Sales

Nick Farrell | TechEye.net | April 11, 2013

PC sales fell 14 percent in the first three months of the year in what is the biggest decline in two decades. Read More »

With Ubuntu In The Mix, 2014 Is The Year Of The Open Source Phone

Sam Dean | GigaOM | February 21, 2014

We've only hit February, and it already looks like 2014 is going to be the year of the open source phone. Not only is Android continuing to dominate the smartphone space in terms of market share, but Mozilla is widening its Firefox OS phone strategy and Canonical announced this week that Spain's bq and China's Meizu will be the first companies to bring Ubuntu smartphones to global users. Read More »

Your Car Is About To Go Open Source

Lucas Mearian | Computerworld | October 9, 2013

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones Read More »

Your Smartphone or Your Life...or, the Dangers of Addictive Technology

Rep. Jason Chaffetz's recent remarks suggesting that some Americans should invest in their health instead of in a new iPhone reminded me of nothing so much of the old Jack Benny bit, where Benny is accosted by a robber who threatens "your money or your life."  When Benny doesn't immediately respond, the robber prompts him, and the supposedly miserly Benny snaps back, "I'm thinking it over." I suspect that, like Mr. Benny, many of us would have a tough choice between our smartphones (and our other devices) and our health.  It may be not so that we're miserly as it is that we're addicted.

ZTE Finds Firefox OS Faring Better In Emerging Markets Than The US

Agam Shah | PC World | October 27, 2014

ZTE has found that smartphones with the Firefox OS are doing well in developing countries but not in the U.S., where the company is taking a multipronged mobile OS approach...

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