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• Google Bolsters Android Security - Enterprise Mobile Today Blog
  Thu, 02 Feb 2012
  Google formally announces Bouncer, a service that automatically checks to ensure that apps uploaded to the Android Market aren’t malicious.
  
• OpenStack Gets a HyperVsectomy - InternetNews Blog
  Thu, 02 Feb 2012
  

  From the 'Microsoft Bashers' files:

  
  
• OpenStack Gets a HyperVsectomy - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 02 Feb 2012
  

  From the 'Microsoft Bashers' files:

  
  
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow - Gives SUSE the Boot - InternetNews Blog
  Wed, 01 Feb 2012
  

  From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files:

  
  
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow - Gives SUSE the Boot - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 01 Feb 2012
  

  From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files:

  
  
• Android Fragmentation? No Worries - Enterprise Mobile Today Blog
  Wed, 01 Feb 2012
  A new study says 73 percent of Android handsets use the same OS version.
  
• 69% of PC and 85% of Tablet Users Would Like Their PCs and Tablets to Have the Same Interface - CodeGuru Blog
  Tue, 31 Jan 2012
  

  A Windows 8 Developer Preview was released several months ago and an updated preview is due to be released any time (word on the street is end of February). When you look at Windows 8, and you consider statistics such as the one in my headline, you can see that things could get interesting when Windows 8 hits the market.

  iYogi did a survey through their iYogi Insights initiative. They surveyed 1400 customers to understand how they would adopt Windows 8 across multiple devices. The key headline that iYogi was promoting from their survey is that the Windows 8 launch will accelerate the shipment of tablets. This is based on some of their results that show 69% of PC and 85% of tablet users affirm that they would like their PCs and tablet interfaces to have the same look and feel. It is this desire for a similar look and feel across devices that has the potential to make the coming of Windows 8 Tablets into the market very disruptive.

  There were a number of other interesting statistics to come from their research. For example, only 15% of the people who responded said they had a tablet already. This indicates there is still a large market to be served in the tablet space. Of the people who did have tablets, 57% stated they like the idea of the Windows 8 touch-screen interface and would consider upgrading given the opportunity. The information I have didn't say whether these were iPad owners versus other tablets.

  Within their summary of their research, iYogi stats that approximately 40 million users have adopted tablets in the United States. This is about a 13% adoption level. They state that according to TechCrunch this will increase to 40% by 2015.

  The survey also touched on the concept of tiles and a tile interface such as what Metro provides. 57% of the respondents would like to use the live Titles interface provided in Windows 8. In fact, 53% of the respondents stated they would want to work on the Metro Interface.

  You can find the analysis of this survey on the iyogi site here. In the final slide of their research, they comment that the 1400 respondents were people on the Windows platform. This might bias the audience a bit. Even so, the stats are still interesting to consider.

  
  
• Samsung Galaxy Note Arrives Feb. 19 - Enterprise Mobile Today Blog
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012
  Will Samsung's smartphone/tablet hybrid be too big for practical use as a phone and too small as a tablet?
  
• Where Mozilla Ubiquity Failed, Ubuntu HUD will Succeed - InternetNews Blog
  Mon, 30 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Mozilla Labs is Ok; Real implementation is Better' files:

  
  
• Where Mozilla Ubiquity Failed, Ubuntu HUD will Succeed - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Mozilla Labs is Ok; Real implementation is Better' files:

  
  
• Apache OpenOffice - The IBM Edition? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 26 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Goodbye Lotus Symphony' files:

  
  
• Did Linus Jump the Gun on a Kernel security fix? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 25 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Upstream First!' files

  
  
• Google Brings Open Source to the Sky - Why Now? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Look Up' files:

  
  
• Linux Continues to Grow in the Enterprise - Is Anyone Surprised? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 19 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Self-Serving Stats' files:

  
  
• Who Isn't Talking About SOPA? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 17 Jan 2012
  

  What does IBM, Red Hat, Cisco and other big tech vendors have to say about SOPA?

  
  
• OpenStack Doesn't Want Any Forks - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 13 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'No Forks Here' files:

  
  
• Mozilla Plans for Firefox Enterprise - Will it Slow Innovation? - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 11 Jan 2012
  

  From the 'Lowest Common Denominator' files:

  
  
• Ubuntu Bringing Linux to your TV - InternetNews Blog
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 09 Jan 2012