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How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service « Bits of Freedom
“After exactly a week, on Monday, 18 November, he concludes the experiment, saying afterwards that he felt liberated when doing so. There’s an easy explanation for his nervousness: what he’ll be doing, where he’ll be and who he has contact with will be seen by tens of thousands of people. Today, by you and me, […]
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Apple Beats Samsung: First Reactions
via bits.blogs.nytimes.com “It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.”
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Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia
“Digia, the software powerhouse listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange (DIG1V), today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Following the acquisition Digia becomes responsible…
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How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android
“Groklaw nails it: “In other words, [Apple and Microsoft] want to disarm the companies that got there first, built the standards, and created the field, while the come-later types clean up on patents on things like slide to unlock or a tablet shap…
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Google Launches Gmail SMS, Starting With Africa
via thenextweb.com “Google has rolled out a new service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya that lets Gmail users send and receive emails using the built-in SMS features of their mobile phones. The implications of this are pretty big, as it means mobile I…
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Are Microsoft and Nokia closet patent trolls? Let the EC decide. ??? Tech News and Analysis
Updated: Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia and is also tattling on the companies with U.S. regulators, accusing them of patent-troll-like behavior, according to the Wall Street Journal…