Companies must stop designing proprietary locked-down services - Network World

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNH0YrViWYBEXEtDXx1mdP-axUPJBQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=xYcfV6i2L4yC1Ab6uYTACg&url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/3061732/software/companies-must-stop-designing-proprietary-locked-down-services.html"><img src="//t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1aro0rgMtZbNEU-VK51ncpsQAEE1VHtjWhoWB21NLeyqenFT0org1yF7JzRhlunuz gStqzRc" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">Network World</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNH0YrViWYBEXEtDXx1mdP-axUPJBQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=xYcfV6i2L4yC1Ab6uYTACg&url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/3061732/software/companies-must-stop-designing-proprietary-locked-down-services.html"><b>Companies must stop designing proprietary locked-down services</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Network World</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">On May 15, 2016, the company that runs Revolv (a smart-home hub) will be intentionally bricking (for all intents and purposes) every single Revolv hub device ever sold—by killing the server the device depends upon and not providing any ability to self <b>...</b></font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dREOiLiGZw0UEMM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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