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Securing All Androids Proves Tricky – Technology Review

By BabakF | Published: March 28, 2011

“The variety of devices running Google’s mobile OS on different networks makes security more complex.” via Securing All Androids Proves Tricky – Technology Review.

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Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb code

By BabakF | Published: March 27, 2011

  “During a keynote presentation at Google’s IO developer conference last year, Google VP of engineering Vic Gundotra proclaimed that the search giant created Android in order to bring freedom to the masses and avoid a “draconian future” in which one company controlled the mobile industry. Looking past the self-congratulatory rhetoric, Android’s poor track record [...]

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Thinking Cap: “Mynd” Is the First Dry, iPhone-Compatible, Portable Brain Scanner | Fast Company

By BabakF | Published: March 22, 2011

“NeuroFocus, a firm that brings brain research to marketing, today unveiled what it deems “the first dry, wireless headset designed to capture brainwave activity across the full brain.” The device, three years in the making, debuted at the 75th Annual Advertising Research Foundation conference in New York.” via Thinking Cap: “Mynd” Is the First Dry, [...]

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IBM100 – Linux

By BabakF | Published: March 18, 2011

“In 1991, University of Helsinki graduate student Linus Torvalds, released on the Internet, his hobby project: an early-stage operating system he called “Linux” with a stable and operational kernel. Torvalds released the source code for Linux so that fellow programmers could see the inner workings of the kernel and provide feedback. He thought that maybe [...]

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Departing PARC CEO looks back wistfully on blue skies of the past

By BabakF | Published: February 25, 2011

“PARC, which started out as Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, is rightly famous for its role in the development of far-reaching technology like Ethernet, the laser printer, and the graphical user interface. But, as with some of the great industrial labs of an earlier era, PARC has slipped out of the public view, even as [...]

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