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April 07, 2010

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

by Mark Bapst
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.
March 01, 2010

Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration – Who Wins?

by Tony Newpower
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.
January 22, 2010

Code Aurora...what?

by Lisa Lammens
I'm smiling as I'm writing my first blog, as I remember what came to mind when sitting in my (now) boss's office, hearing "Code Aurora Forum" for the first time. Code what? I didn't quite catch that second part. Did you say "Aurora"?
January 10, 2010

Are you open to open source?

by Tony Newpower
There’s an old saying in England that if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change. That person might just as well have been talking about the mobile phone industry. What a year: a global economic crisis, tons of lost jobs and tighter and tighter spending. Memorable is one way to describe it, I guess. But every crisis creates opportunities and our industry is no exception. We are now moving full on into the world of open source software — a concept hitherto associated with the tie-dye t-shirt, over-caffeinated rogue developer crowd. Those old stereotypes are being quickly dispelled as many of the industry heavyweights have already jumped on the bandwagon.

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