Archive for January, 2014
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
GoDaddy may go OpenStack
The company has been advertising to hire an engineering director who will “lead GoDaddy’s internal infrastructure-as-a-service project by adopting and contributing to OpenStack,†according to an ad posted to LinkedIn and the OpenStack Foundation website. The ad doesn’t offer much more detail and GoDaddy did not reply to a request for comment so it’s hard […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
After OpenStack, PayPal experimenting with public cloud
PayPal has spoken publicly and regularly about its private OpenStack implementation and recently said that 20 percent of its infrastructure runs on OpenStack. But it’s only a matter of time before PayPal starts running some of its operations on public clouds, said James Barrese, CTO of PayPal. “We have a few small apps that aren’t […]
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Friday, January 24th, 2014
Xolo Q3000 – high end phone at an affordable price.
A friend of mine was looking for a budget phone with a lot of features. While there are bigger brands which are more expensive, I came across Xolo Q3000Â which offers similar features at an affordable price. Here is what I liked about it: 5.7″ IPS Â full HD display – good if you like big displays […]
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Intel’s SD Card size PC Edison runs Linux
Intel’s solution for next generation wearable technology is Intel’s Edison. SD card size computer is launched at CES. Features:Â Dual-core low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel Quark processor. Integrated Wi-Fi Bluetooth Runs Linux
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Friday, January 3rd, 2014
How South Korea became slave to Microsoft Internet Explorer
Other countries should take a leaf from here, and not do the same mistake. Once you select a proprietary technology, you are stuck for life! Some government decisions haunt the citizens of the country for a long time and the same is happening in South Korea right now. Thanks to a government decision made almost […]
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Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
The first supercapacitor-powered portable speakers are open source
Blueshift is the cool speakers that charges in 5 minutes and plays for 6 hours. Sam Beck is the guy behind Blueshift, an open source sustainable electronics business that is all about building cool stuff. Helium speakers are the company’s first product to market and will be the world’s the first supercapacitor-powered portable speakers. Not […]
