According to the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the Associated Press, Google had to agree to keep Android free and available for anyone to use for at least the next five years in order to gain Continue reading…
The passage of time can be measured with increasing accuracy, but our own perception of it often diverges wildly from the generally accepted reality. A pair of students from Cornell University, Continue reading…
When you're browsing Kickstarter, you could help drop another few million dollars on the Pebble team. But as satisfying as an e-ink smartwatch is, you'll be missing out on the feeling of rescuing a Continue reading…
In a somewhat unusual move, American mobile carrier Sprint has joined the Tizen Association, an industry association that backs new Linux-based MeeGo successor Tizen. The company just announced that Continue reading…
Sony's $149.99 SmartWatch is probably never going to be as exciting as Kickstarter sensation Pebble, but the company is trying to make its SDK more compelling with a couple of new extensions. In its Continue reading…
Ryan Leavengood of Spectrum IEEE has written a detailed piece about the history of open source BeOS rewrite, Haiku. The article traces the project back to 2001, when the rights to BeOS were sold to Continue reading…
When Facebook announced the Open Compute Project — an initiative to open-source its own server designs in an effort to create better, more efficient data centers — it wasn't clear how well the Continue reading…
We first heard about Tizen, the Linux-based open source software platform, back in September when it rose from the ashes of MeeGo. The project has now reached an important milestone with the official Continue reading…
Mozilla has announced that its HTML5-based mobile phone platform — dubbed Boot to Gecko — will be making its commercial debut in Brazil by early 2013. ZTop is reporting that Mozilla CEO Gary Continue reading…
Google Earth is already a remarkable repository of images of our planet, but the company is looking to add even more viewpoints — last week, Google published the first images it collected that were Continue reading…
