Once upon a time I was going to be a lawyer. One reason I didn’t go that way was to avoid running down rabbit holes like the one our own Jason Perlow offered us Thursday. (This puzzle called Down the Rabbit Hole is now on sale over at Legendary Toys.) Microsoft owns FAT32, but it didn’t ...

The folks over at the Linux Foundation were happy to announce today that MIPS Technologies has joined the group. In addition to its chips MIPS has a lot of analog IP in the areas of  “digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications.” The company sai...

Our good friend Big Money Matt is very upset today over Microsoft’s FUD concerning Symbian. (Picture from the Pepperdine alumni. Go Waves.) It’s funny, sort of reminds me of what happened when Scott McClellan came out with his anti-Bush book. Symbian is the Scott McClellan of mobile soft...

Increasing use of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions globally puts additional pressure — and costs — on independent software developers. The Linux Foundation hopes that its fourth stab at a solution, the Linux Standards Base 4.0, will make it much easier and less expensive for ISVs to ...

Design. While lots of people (including Paula) were ga-ga over the promise of mobile Linux as exhibited at Intel’s Developer Forum in Shanghai, I couldn’t help noticing that the devices shown were uglier than Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (It’s her centennial today...