Joe Hewitt, one of the most important software developers in recent history, published a provocative and sad post on his personal blog today, predicting that unless the open and free Web gets someone to own and take responsibility for advancing it, it will inevitably fall into virtual obscurity in the dust of fast evolving platforms like iOS, Android and Windows. Chris White, one of the co-founders of Android, offers a compelling argument against Hewitt's perspective, though. As one of the primary co-creators of Firefox, Hewitt single-handedly built the Facebook iPhone app. and when he left Facebook fed up with Apple's...
Richard Stallman: Google's smartphone code is often described as 'open' or 'free' - but when examined by the Free Software Foundation, it starts to look like something different
Notify My Android is a Prowl-like Android App and API that offers an easy way to send notifications from your application directly to your Android device.
Der Tod des PC ist ein schlimmerer Verlust, als wir in unserer neuen mobilen Netzwelt ahnen, behauptet der Netztheoretiker Jonathan Zittrain. Gegen die faktische Zensur durch das App-Konzept erscheint die Geschäftspolitik von Microsoft in den neunziger Jahren heute geradezu harmlos. Ein Essay.
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java, with ports to other languages. Our focus is on using the built-in camera on mobile phones to scan and decode barcodes on the device, without communicating with a server. However the project can be used to encode and decode barcodes on desktops and servers as well. We currently support these formats:
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