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Symbian's open source journey

Symbian's open source journey

Insight newsmaker How do you open up a closed codebase? Symbian research chief David Wood weighs potential and practicality, and the promise of multicore phones.

Thursday, October 30 2008 09:33 PM

Tags: Smart phones, Open source, Software engineering/development, Software licensing, Smart Phone, Android, Plug-in, GPL, Symbian Inc., EPL


SMS: Still king of the hill

SMS: Still king of the hill

News Disillusioned by the slow takeoff in next-generation networks and handsets, analysts are now advising mobile operators to focus on existing technologies like Short Messaging Service (SMS) to help boost revenues.

Thursday, October 11 2001 11:20 AM


With 'open innovation', no idea is left behind

With 'open innovation', no idea is left behind

News The "open innovation" approach to intellectual property could make sure good ideas don't go to waste.

Monday, July 24 2006 09:46 AM

Tags: Innovation


Can news be sold iTunes style?

Blogs David Carr of the NYT provided an interesting suggestion, that perhaps news can be sold the way music is sold--to an iPo...

Friday, January 16 2009 07:23 PM



Hands-on programming: Extract plain text from documents with Syncfusion's components

Web Development

Justin James recently tried Syncfusion's Essential DocIO and Essential PDF to help him extract text from documents he downloaded from the Internet. Here's the code he wrote to get the plain text.


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Will technology divide us further?

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So I finally watched 2012 over the weekend, but the film left me feeling extremely agitated.

The possibility that the world may meet its watery end in three years didn't..... by Eileen Yu

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