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Open Source Space Development?

March 7, 2005

Over at FasterForward (the blog I write for my strategy consulting business) I’ve just posted a link
about the release of a PowerPoint draft of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” a discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development. The document describes the essential features of the open source process and their [...]

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“Welcome to the Open Source Economy” Release 0.1

March 7, 2005

In keeping with the principle “Release Early and Release Often,” I have placed a draft of the PowerPoint version of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” my discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development, on the site. The ideas continue to evolve, but I think that this document starts to capture [...]

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Some Advice for Sir Howard

March 7, 2005

Well, things have gotten desperate at Sony, because yesterday the company announced that its board of directors voted to elect the British executive Sir Howard Stringer (currently CEO of Sony Corporation of America) as its new chief executive and chairman of the board. The final decision will come after a shareholder vote in June. Stringer [...]

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Intel Unveils Proposed 802.11s Mesh Networking Standard

March 6, 2005

I have long believed that mesh networking will eventually be one of the key components in the future converged networks that will shake up the telecommunications world. One of the challenges has been that there are a number of different approaches and technologies that have been slowly pushed into the marketplace. One of the keys [...]

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Notebook Evolution

March 3, 2005

I was reading somewhere about some of Intel’s future architecture plans for notebook computing, and their was a pointer to this article about Intel’s Extended Mobile Architecture (EMA). EMA entails adding a secondary screen on the outside of the notebook so that while the notebook computer is in the sleep state, users can monitor their [...]

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NTT DoCoMo Reaches 10 million 3G Users

February 24, 2005

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced it has reached the milestone of 10-million users for its 3G service. DoCoMo’s FOMA service was launched in the fall of 2001 and is available in virtually all populated areas of Japan. In a statement, the company attributed the rapid the rapid growth of the W-CDMA service to the fact that [...]

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Commoditization Comes to PBX

February 23, 2005

Om Malik has a nice update on Popular Telephony’s strategy of commoditizing the $2-billion PBX market. Malik notes that the company has signed a deal with Commoca to make IP phones that are based on Texas Instruments’ Titan chip platform. Commoca, will make a touch screen IP phone that will be sold to large enterprises [...]

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Grid Computing Interview

February 21, 2005

BetaNews has a good interview with Dr. Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the future of grid computing.
A couple of interesting points: First, they don’t seem to be thinking that much about the vast space of P2P approaches and applications, although they see the relevance and relationship:
So, there is a whole class of interesting things [...]

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Motorola Enters into Wide Ranging-Alliance with Skype

February 18, 2005

Motorola and Skype announced this week at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, that Motorola would launch a line of “Skype Ready” products, including cell phones and handsets. In addition, the two companies will explore opportunities broadly across both companies, leveraging Motorola’s strength in mobility, advanced technologies, mobile devices and accessories and Skype’s rapidly-growing [...]

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“Napster To Go” – Away? Bankrupt?

February 7, 2005

In its inimitable fashion, The Register takes down Napster’s ludicrous new Napster To Go service. So, they really think that people are going to be happy only being able to access the music they have downloaded if they continue to pay the monthly subscription fee? What I wonder is what kind of idiots dream up [...]

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