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...with consumer phones, notes Ovum analyst Tony Cripps in London. And Microsoft is gaining ground, according to Nomura security analyst Richard Windsor, who predicts 25.8 million Microsoft users by 2007, behind Symbian's 54.3 million. Clifford, 45, is fazed less by Microsoft and by other mobile operating systems like Linux and Palmsource's PalmOS than by another force: his target customers. If he can get more handset vendors to adopt Symbian technology and can persuade his existing customers to broaden their Symbian line instead of using their own software, he can reduce the company's reliance on Nokia, which represents...
...offerings around intellectual property. Such models may include lowered pricing for a developing market; universal licensing schemes to sell music, films, games and software on a subscription basis; or emphasizing revenues that flow from service and support rather than product, a model that has been successfully exploited by the Linux community...
...counting. Academics are upset by what they see as info anarchy. (An Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than...
Even beyond the world of video games, Microsoft is looking a tiny bit peaked. You wouldn't want to say that it's vulnerable, but last quarter Microsoft missed its earnings estimates by a whisker. Open-source gadflies like Linux and Firefox are chipping away at its market share in small but irritating ways. Google is making scary noises and hiring away its talent. Apple is winning rave reviews for its new operating system Tiger, which incorporates features that Microsoft was planning for the next version of Windows--which won't be out till 2006. Microsoft isn't going...
Cohen insists he didn't unleash BitTorrent to fuel movie piracy or get rich. He points out that the technology has an array of legitimate uses. A software firm like Red Hat uses it to send out updates of its Linux products, lowering its bandwidth costs, and nonprofit sites like etree.org use it to distribute live concerts, with the blessings of musicians. Cohen, who lives outside Seattle, supports his wife and two kids with donations from BitTorrent users and says he would be the last person to download content illegally. "People want to make an example of me," he says...