Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’
August 3, 2010 | Blog | by : Tony Newpower

Apps Development Made Fun and Easy

I just saw something really cool today. Google recently announced its AppInventor web-based application development environment for the Android platform. You know what the required skills are for using AppInventor? Well, can you point and click a mouse? If so, you’re off to the races. MORE

April 7, 2010 | Blog | by : Mark Bapst

Why is Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Investing in WebKit?

As the Principal Engineer for QuIC’s Web Technology team, one of the most common questions I’m faced with is, “Why is QuIC expending energy to help optimize Webkit?” Perhaps some people feel that actively participating in open source runs contrary to traditional business models. Or, some may even wonder why QuIC doesn’t just sit back and leverage the work of other corporations and the rest of the WebKit community.

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March 1, 2010 | Blog | by : Tony Newpower

Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration – Who Wins?

Building a smartphone today is not easy. Ask anyone who’s done this for a while and they’ll agree. Earlier in my career I did software for missiles, and trust me, it was MUCH easier. So, smartphones are not rocket science – they’re worse in my opinion. Why is that? Well, there are a number of reasons. Folks like to compare smartphones to PCs/laptops, but you don’t stick your PC in your pocket, your PC is not always with you and you probably don’t use your PC as your main voice communications device, let alone as a conveniently available camera so that your friends believe you when you tell them you ran into Sasquatch on your last camping trip. It’s the smartphone’s inherent mobility that makes the engineering such a challenge.

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