Linux phone stack gains predictive typing option
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| Trolltech has agreed to resell Zi Corporation's predictive typing and
| auto-correction software for mobile devices with full hardware or software
| keyboards. The eZiType stack will be available pre-integrated with Qtopia
| Phone Edition (QPE), through Trolltech's Greensuite third-party ecosystem,
| Trolltech said.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3627055734.html
Linux WiFi array certified FIPS 140-2
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| A provider of Linux-based WiFi arrays announced certification by the National
| Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). The cyptographic module in
| Xirrus's 802.11a/b/g-compliant "WiFi Arrays" has received Federal Information
| Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation, says the company, opening the
| door to more U.S. government markets.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6580015724.html
Related:
The FCC, FOSS, and software radios: a mixed bag
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| After studying the new rules -- published in the Federal Register last month
| and taking effect today -- the SFLC concluded that the laws are not
| FOSS-restrictive because they "apply to hardware manufacturers who distribute
| SDR devices, regardless if they use FOSS in them or not." And the Center says
| that since the rules specifically mention the GNU/Linux operating system, the
| FCC is actually acknowledging the importance of open source.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116769
FCC ignores more than 100 years of wisdom
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| In 1883 French cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs published a set of six
| design principles for military encryption systems. The second of these
| principles is generally known today under the observation that security
| through obscurity is not security. The Federal Communications Commission
| (FCC) seems not to have read the history books or to be aware of how its
| sister federal agencies develop security standards....
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E1800257313005EC092
Is The FCC Blocking Wireless Competition?
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| With the nationwide expansion of fiber-optic wiring and digital delivery at
| the turn of the century, the federal government reclaimed and is still
| reclaiming large amounts of spectrum.
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http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/09/07/is-the-fcc-blocking-wireless-competition
The Spectrum Swindle
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| This is not a call for a privatization or reformation of the FCC; it is a
| recommendation for its abolition.[20] Along with alternative arbitration
| venues, the current court system could handle any disputes arising from this
| action.[21]
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| The FCC should not be in the business of gerrymandering the electromagnetic
| spectrum; rather, it should be left to private firms to homestead the
| infinitesimal frequencies and solve any and all problems in courts: just like
| property disputes on parcels of land.
|
| The FCC sells something it neither created nor homesteaded and has
| historically been found incompetent at managing. Worse, it has necessarily
| been partisan in its actions. In addition, the Treasury Department (through
| the FCC) stands to make billions of dollars for something they never made,
| never homesteaded, and have shown gross incompetence at managing. And yet, in
| January, they will both make out like bandits.
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http://www.mises.org/story/2815
Is FCC destroying the open Internet?
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| The fact of a shared monopoly is, in many places, just that — a fact. When
| carriers are given an exclusive right to provide service on lines they “own,”
| the public network-of-networks becomes merely a private network.
|
| Such monopolies, whether public or private, provide enormous temptation for
| mischief. No matter how good the motives of those who create such temptation,
| it follows as night does day that others with less pure motives will follow
| them.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1737
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