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Take Two 'Medtech' Apps & Call Me In The Morning

Adrian Bridgwater | Open Source Insider | January 7, 2015

Your technology term of the day is "medtech".  Obviously not too hard to work out, medtech (possibly sometimes 'meditech' or 'medetech') is the slightly less than fluid portmanteau of 'medicine' and 'technology' coming together...

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Telefonica Vivo Welcomes LG Fireweb in Brazil; Company’s First Firefox OS Smartphone

Sam Lehman | HNGN | October 23, 2013

LG has unveiled its first Firefox-powered smartphone called the "Fireweb," which was launched in Brazil under Telefonica Vivo's network Tuesday, followed by other parts of Latin America.

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The 10 oldest, significant open-source programs

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 13, 2013

Does open-source software still seem "new" to you? Think again, its roots go back decades. Read More »

The Evolving Landscape Of Medical Apps In Healthcare

Jasmine Pennic | HIT Consultant | June 23, 2014

Mitchell Posada, VP of Marketing at Pathfinder Software discusses the evolving landscape of medical apps in healthcare...

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The Free Software Foundation: 30 Years In

The Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985. To paint a picture of what computing was like back then, the Amiga 1000 was released, C++ was becoming a dominant language, Aldus PageMaker was announced, and networking was just starting to grow. Oh, and that year Careless Whisper by Wham! was a major hit. Things have changed a lot in 30 years. Back in 1985 the FSF was primarily focused on building free pieces of software that were primarily useful to nerdy computer people. These days we have software, services, social networks, and more to consider...

The Future Of Linux: Evolving Everywhere

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | July 15, 2013

Cemented as a cornerstone of IT, the open source OS presses on in the face of challenges to its ethos and technical prowess Read More »

The Healthcare IT Applications Of Google Glass

John D. Halamka | Healthcare IT News | July 17, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to test Google Glass. It's basically an Android smartphone (without the cellular transmitter) capable of running Android apps, built into a pair of glasses. Read More »

The Impact (Or Lack Thereof) Of Mobile Computing On Life Science R&D

Alex Clark | Pistoia Alliance | August 29, 2012

The computing transformation being effected by mobile computing may not be one we fully appreciate while burying our heads and thumbs in the latest cool app or game. Yet this transformation is likely the most important since the introduction of the personal computer... It’s that the transformation marks a complete change to the underlying platform. Read More »

The Irresistible Rise Of Android

Glyn Moody | Computerworld | November 6, 2012

In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, there's still some surprise that this has happened. After all, this was a sector that Apple absolutely dominated just a few years ago. Some find it hard to understand how Android has pulled this off in just five years. Read More »

The Kindle Fire and the Triumph of Open Source

Timothy B. Lee | Forbes | September 28, 2011

Today’s big tech news is the release of a new generation of Amazon Kindles. Of particular interest is the Kindle Fire, a $199, 7-inch color touchscreen tablet based on Android. It seems destined to become the most credible competitor to the iPad. Read More »

The Linux Desktop is already here and thriving

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | May 3, 2013

The year of the Linux desktop came long ago and we missed it. We were expecting it to displace Windows; instead, it has displaced the Windows desktop application, powered the reinvention of the mobile market, and in the process done more for us all than the revolution we expected could ever have delivered. Read More »

The Prospects Of The HTML5-Based Firefox OS

Staff Writer | DigiTimes | February 21, 2014

With the fast expanding reach of the Internet and the approaching of the era of cloud computing, the HTML5 open platform enables quick development of cross-platform applications, easing concerns that there may be different user experience on different connected devices. [...] Read More »

The White House Big Data Report: The Good, The Bad, And The Missing

Jeremy Gillula and Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 4, 2014

Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we thought was missing...

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There Is Something Magical About Firefox OS

Rob Hawkes | Rawkes | September 12, 2012

Over the past year and a half I've been spending more and more of my time working with Mozilla's latest project, Firefox OS. During that time I've fallen in love with the project and what it stands for, in ways that I've never experienced with a technology platform before. Read More »

Think Like Linux, Act Like UPS, Smile Like Amazon: Toward Open Source Logistics

Phil Granof | Wired | January 22, 2014

What does one do when quality, quantity, and complexity collide? For that is the conundrum of large enterprises facing the vast resources available in the world of open source software (OSS). GitHub, the largest online code-hosting site, lists 10.2 million repositories, and Black Duck, the company for which I work, tracks 30 billion lines of open source code. Read More »