Category Archives: iphone

end to end design versus BOM design

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Grossly simplifying, some products are Bill of Materials (BOM) products and some are Designed products. BOM products come to market via a process of generating a parts list and then integrating. In place of designers, BOM products have buyers and integrators. In place of innovation, BOM products have standards. The standards are preferably “industry standards” [...]

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The smart phone patent

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims . Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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Cell phone handsets and linux and software value

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Update at the end. Two FSMLabs alumni are leading the charge for Linux handsets in two different companies. Jason Whitmire is now GM of cell phones for Wind River. Jason’s blog is here and a Linuxdevices article discusses his first post which concerns the, well, machinations of Google and the two big cell-phone consortia Limo [...]

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