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Mozilla's Firefox OS Readies For Africa Launch

Jo Best | ZD Net | November 6, 2014

The Mozilla Foundation has signed deals with three new operators to bring Firefox OS to the continent...

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Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile

Frederic Lardinois | TechCrunch | August 25, 2013

Mozilla was late to mobile and now it’s trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date is its Firefox OS mobile operating system for smartphones. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

New Public Safety Broadband Network: Tool For A Domestic Secret Police?

Jay Stanley | ACLU | September 17, 2012

Police in Tampa used smartphones and tablets to spy on protesters at the Republican National Convention, according to a report today from the National Journal. Read More »

Officials, Industry Preparing For More Mobile Government

Marjorie Censer | Washington Post | April 28, 2013

[Steven VanRoekel is] now spearheading an effort to modernize the government’s technology, pushing to make more information available to citizens and allow its employees to do more work on the go. But moving the federal government to tablets, smartphones and applications isn’t as simple as signing a cellphone contract or building a 99-cent app. Read More »

Open Source Ubuntu for Smartphones

Brett Molina | USA Today | January 3, 2013

London-based company Canonical announced it is bringing its open source operating system Ubuntu to smartphones, with the first devices rolling out in 2014. Read More »

OpenWFD Aims To Bring Wireless Display Streaming To Tablets, Phones

Christopher Tozzi | The Var Guy | November 4, 2013

Wireless connectivity between devices and display monitors remains mostly fantasy today, Google's Chromecast notwithstanding. But it could become a big deal for tablets, smartphones and even traditional PCs in the future. And it may even work on Linux, if the nascent OpenWFD project succeeds—which would be very good news for open source hardware vendors. Read More »

OS Wars: Three Alternatives To iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Tony Crammond | The Full Signal | July 23, 2013

The smartphone world appears to be all but divided up. You’re either an Android user, a follower of Apple’s iOS, or loyal to the mighty Microsoft and its Windows Phone 8 platform. But there are alternatives out there... Read More »

Osijek’s MeshPoint Gets an Award for the Best Humanitarian Technology

Vedran Pavlic | Total Croatian News | June 21, 2016

MeshPoint has been named the best startup project in the category "Best Humanitarian Tech of the Year", which made it the top humanitarian technology product in the competition with 11 other teams at The Europas contest. This startup project was developed based on the experience gained when these Slavonian volunteers brought to the refugees the devices for free wireless internet, as a part of the Open Network...

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Out With the Old...Wait, Not in Health Care

By Kim Bellard | August 15, 2016

The last company still manufacturing VCRs announced it has ceased their production. VCRs had a good run, most households had one, but their time has passed.  Meanwhile, the stethoscope is celebrating its 200th birthday, and is still virtually the universal symbol for health care professionals. There has got to be a moral in there somewhere. VCRs revolutionized our TV viewing experience. We could record television shows to not only watch programs at our own convenience, but we could also fast forward through commercials! We could watch the movies we wanted, when we wanted to, in the comfort of our own homes. Video rental outlets popped up everywhere, from boutique neighborhood stores to wildly successful chains like Blockbuster...

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Patent Trolls Are Now Crushing Parts Of The Developer Economy

Haydn Shaughnessy | Forbes | July 4, 2013

News that Boston University is suing Apple AAPL -0.59% over parts for the iPhone and iPad (the component in question is called “highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films”), is one more dull thud of the patent lawyers’ dossier on the smartphone scene. [...] Read More »

Patients Turn To mHealth Over Prescriptions, Says Survey

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 16, 2013

It might be a little hard to swallow, but 24% of patients are more willing to accept a prescription for an mHealth app than a pill, according to a recent survey of 2000 patients by Digitas Health. Read More »

Physician adds Smartphone to Medical Tools to gather patient info

Kristen Brown | MedCity News | September 19, 2013

...[Dr. Paul] Abramson is on the vanguard of the emerging digital revolution in medicine. Beyond consumer-driven apps that count calories or encourage exercise, mobile technology is beginning to significantly change how doctors practice medicine. Read More »

Review: Innovations Abound Beyond iOS And Android

Anick Jesdanun | Top Tech News | February 28, 2014

Gartner says 94 percent of smartphones sales last year were either iPhones or Android devices; Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices made up another 5 percent combined. What about the remaining 1 percent? They are the wannabes such as Firefox, Sailfish and Ubuntu, and these alternative contenders boast some features you just may envy. Read More »