Kodak has announced that it is taking LG and Samsung to court over both companies' production of cell phones with integrated digital cameras. ars technica reports. In its complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Kodak alleges that the digital cameras in cell phones like the LG Shine or Samsung FlipShot violate two of its patents related to dig...

I know the blog is about mobile and open source, but I bumped into this story of an Italian developer (on the New York Times...) and I could not avoid to write about it ;-) The story is about Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni, a former Senior Software Engineering Lead at Adobe in San Francisco, who moved back to Italy and started a company called Balsamiq. His company is actually a "Micro-ISV" or a singl...

Now, there’s an intriguing question, as posed by the New York Times. Will Barack Obama, who used the internet and blogosphere, and not forgetting mobile phones, so effectively in his election campaign, have to actually give up using email and his beloved Blackberry when he takes up residency in the White House? Y’see, the United States

Orange UK has taken the concept of custom-made phones to another level by introducing this handset, the Orange New York, along with the Orange Chicago and Orange Tokyo. It doesn’t come with the latest whiz-bang features, and in fact it’s actually a low-end phone in terms of specs, but it builds on simplicity, speed, and

As we learned on Saturday in the New York Times, President-elect Barack Obama faces the possibility of losing his BlackBerry privileges once he takes office on January 20. Obama has been pictured several times with Berry in hand, and it seems he’s as connected to the device as many in our BlackBerry community. You might even say that he’s addicted to it. Yet I don’t think he̵...

Obama might be experiencing a bit of his "change" when he comes to office. My good friend Dave let me know about an article in the New York Times detailing how Obama might have to give up his BlackBerry when he takes over the oval office. I guess there are downsides to being the

The Adobe MAX Keynote this morning was again very interesting with lots of cool guest presenters. Even the First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, was on the stage talking about the California Legacy Trails project. Other guests included representatives from New York Times, Salseforce.com, Disney Interactive, Google (Andy Rubin) etc. (BTW, the best quote of the keynote came from Salesforce.com re...

There is an article on The New York Times that talks about our new President-elect Barack Obama and his addiction to mobile email. He is the first candidate for president (worldwide, I have to say) that was going around always with a BlackBerry in his hands. A tremendous slogan for those who live on mobile email :-) Now, the security services are saying that he has to relinquish his BlackBerry whe...

Barack Obama may be forced to give up his BlackBerry. Until now, Obama has seemed to be addicted to his BlackBerry. He has been seen with it on a regular basis and it is rarely far from his side. According to the New York Times, the days of emailing on his BlackBerry maybe over due to the "Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence ...

It seems President Elect Obama may be forced to go cold turkey on his BlackBerry addiction when he gets sworn in to office. The New York Times ran an article today all about the situation crisis at hand.... For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side - on most days, it was fastened to his belt -...