Paris court to decide Iranians fate in February (Press TV)
A French court will rule on a US application to extradite an Iranian engineer accused of breaking the US trade embargo on Iran next month.

The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? (Ars Technica)
The recent release of the Symbian kernel source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) has generated some discussion in the open source software community about the challenges of building a truly open smartphone platform. Software freedom advoca

Feb. 25, 1837: Davenport Electric Motor Gets Plugged In (Wired News)
Thomas Davenport finally got a patent for his electric motor. He never made much money off it, because it was an idea ahead of its ... power source.

Apple software engineer Gray Powell loses next-gen iPhone
Gizmodo.com has reported that a 27-year old Apple software engineer has been identified as the unfortunate employee who lost the new iPhone

Minnetronix names Watts to software engineering post (Finance and Commerce)
Minnetronix, a St. Paul-based medical device, design and manufacturing firm named James Watts as the director of software engineering. Watts is returning to the company â?” he joined the Minnetronix 14 years ago as its first software engineer.