innovation

InternetNews: Should we all just use Red Hat's Firefox binaries instead?

451 Group: For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux.

Adobe Systems' Flash Player 12 is currently under development, but efforts in creating Flash Players for mobile browsers will be redirected toward supporting HTML5 innovation, the company announced this week.

Big ideas heard at the InformationWeek 500 conference include a renewed focus on innovation, the importance of data visualization, and the ongoing agony of maintenance fees.

Google Labs was known as a place where engineers have been allowed to exercise a little creative freedom. Some Google engineers spent the 20 percent of their time that gets allotted to innovation tinkering on these projects.Working in the Labs fits in with one of the top three reasons Google gives for working at the company

ServerWatch: "Oracle is continuing to push innovation forward on the open source VirtualBox project. "

The stream of smartphone-related patent lawsuits -- more than 40 since the start of 2010 -- could be a sign of a healthy market, or a deterrent to innovation.

Legal actions to prevent or punish movie, music, and software piracy may be harmful to innovation as well as ineffective.

Standards Blog: "As I noted last week, the British government recently came out strongly in favor of royalty free standards and active consideration of open source software in public procurement.

As expected, this decision was greeted with less than universal enthusiasm. "

Groklaw: "The White House is asking us to give them ideas on what is blocking innovation in America. I thought I'd give them an honest answer.

Here it is: Current intellectual property laws are blocking innovation."