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Let's just say the iPhone is the best generation-one product I can recall in the tech market -- ever -- in terms of hardware design and execution. But, much as Japan did in World War II, Apple merely stung the heck out of a number of big companies -- and most of Asia as a geographical region. It was...

Sure, you can walk into any big-box bookstore and see several shelves full of volumes about open source software. Likewise, the Web sites of Linux-related companies and organizations are chock-full of white papers and articles analyzing one or another's position on open source hot topics. However, t...

In the U.S., a lot of folks are off this week because the 4th of July, which marks the Independence Day holiday, comes on a Wednesday this year. An impressive number of Americans have been spending the last few days scrambling to buy a $3,000 phone, and I think it is time to begin talking about the...

This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the t...

WSO2 has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0, based on Apache Synapse and targeted at bo...

It's not Apple's release of a Windows version of its Safari Web browser that concerns Mozilla COO John Lilly. It's Apple founder Steve Jobs' apparent view of a Web browser market shared, for the most part, by two companies: Apple and Microsoft. In a "John's blog" entry published last Thursday, Lilly...

Last week was kind of a disappointment, because I think most of us expected more from the Apple developer conference than it delivered. This is particularly true of the iPhone, which is way overhyped for a generation one product. Most tech companies -- and particularly Apple -- suck at generation ...

A bane of shutterbugs everywhere is the question of what to do with their photos after shooting them. In the days when film was king, it wasn't unusual to find closets with shoeboxes stuffed with prints or boxes of slides. Today, computer hard drives have become the photo shoeboxes of yesterday. Dig...

Last week, I was on the road at Microsoft's TechEd conference and had a chance to chat with a number of my peers, some Microsoft customers, and a large number of Microsoft executives. Things are changing rapidly at that company: The Windows group is largely new, Bill Gates is mostly gone, and the ...

The photographs available on Google's new Street View utility are not live and were taken from a device with multiple cameras attached to a car that drove down each available street. The problem for some is that the cameras took photos of people not expecting to be photographed and broadcast across ...