Archive | April 6th, 2012
Qualcomm and Intel hand over source code to Apple
As part of Apple’s defense against Samsung’s claims that iOS products infringe upon certain wireless patents owned by Samsung, Apple argues that they have an implied license via Qualcomm to those patents. In other words, because Qualcomm is licensed to use the patents at issue, Apple’s own contract with Qualcomm to provide the baseband chips […]
Continue reading...Android manufacturers may start following Amazon’s lead
6. April 2012
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Though Android fans like to downplay the problem, platform fragmentation remains a huge problem that manifests itself in a myriad of ways. Whether it means that your brand new Android device isn’t up to snuff to play the latest game or take advantage of the latest Android update, or that the user experience varies wildly […]
Continue reading...Facebook Engineering
6. April 2012
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It’s funny how few people realize the tremendous technical underpinnings of a site like Facebook, that on its face, may seem to be pretty simple. But don’t get it twisted, Facebook has some of the brightest engineers on the planet working on some pretty impressive underlying architecture to ensure that the hundreds of millions of […]
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6. April 2012
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