Static on the Dream Phone
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| Meanwhile, cracks are appearing in the control that cellular carriers have
| long held over their networks. Verizon announced last month that it will open
| its network to “any application and any device” by the end of next year.
|
| [...]
|
| Cellular carriers need to embrace this insight. Winner-take-all profits can
| be achieved by opening up their networks and then harnessing community
| contributions (including the contributions of software developers) to improve
| — or invent — new services. Google is trying this with its new Open Handset
| Alliance, which combines an open-source phone platform with an Internet-style
| application development model.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/opinion/15oreilly.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Yesterday:
Linux set for more handsets in 2008-Torvalds
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| But last month Web search leader Google said it would offer a software
| platform, built on Linux, to make the Internet work as smoothly on mobile
| phones as it does on computers.
|
| "I haven't been personally involved but it certainly looks like 2008 may be,
| thanks to the Google Alliance, one of the years you will find more widely
| available phones with Linux," Torvalds told Reuters in an interview on
| Friday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSL1478887720071214
Related:
Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile
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| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech
| Computer Corpto design a Linux
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073
After the Desktop -- What?
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| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
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http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
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