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Monday, September 17th, 2012
HP Releases Two Beta Versions of Open-Source WebOS
Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the “OpenEmbedded” development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices. The August Edition, as the webOS team calls the latest release on the project website, consists of […]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end
“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.†― Biologist Jonas Salk
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Its official: Google uses Ubuntu
From the article: “You’d be a fool to use anything but Linux.†🙂 Most Linux people know that Google uses Linux on its desktops as well as its servers. Some know that Ubuntu Linux is Google’s desktop of choice and that it’s called Goobuntu. But almost no one outside of Google knew exactly what […]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
VMware Joining OpenStack Delayed, For Now
The OpenStack Board of Directors met this week and on the agenda was a somewhat surprising action item: Vote on whether or not to accept VMware – once thought to be a competitor to the project – into the increasingly popular who’s-who club of cloud computing. VMware’s going to have to wait to see if […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
What users are saying about open clouds
Market research firm IDC says that data from a new survey shows that “open cloud is key for 72 percent of customers.” Read More.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
The State Of Linux — How Even Apple Is Going Open Source
Apple — one of the most closed companies in the world — is actually using lot of open source and software. Licensing information in the Apple iPhone proves this. Go to the legal section on the iPhone and it cites Linux Kernel developer Ted Ts’o for his code. Linux Suse is there, too. Zemlin made […]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
Rackspace powered by OpenStack
Rackspace one of the key founders of OpenStack, has finally switched to OpenStack. These products will be provided to customers in limited amounts over a period of time to ensure a smooth ramp-up. – Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack – based on the latest OpenStack compute release, this solution is fast, reliable, scalable and is […]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
A cloud’s real carbon footprint
Is cloud storage really more power efficient? There is, however, an often-touted benefit of using the cloud for data storage and that is power savings. Broadcasters are only now becoming aware of the importance of controlling power costs. Moving forward, technical managers can expect federal, state and local government bureaucrats to increasingly drive companies to […]
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
Android Phones Will Power NASA’s Mini-Satellites
While most of the recent media attention on NASA has understandably focused on the Curiosity rover on Mars, that’s not the only experiment that the space and aeronautics research agency has in the works. A team at NASA’s Ames Research center in Moffett Field, California, is working on the future launch of miniature satellites constructed […]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Nikon coming up with Android-Powered Camera with WiFi
Nikon is releasing the CoolPix S800C in September. With the Android and WiFi powered, you will be able to use your favourite application (Whatsapp, Facebook, Ubuntu One, DropBox, etc.) to share photos easily. Here is the cool features of the CoolPix. 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen with 819,000-dot resolution, 10x optical zoom GPS, 1080p video capture at […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy Note II vs Note
Samsung has announced the Note II, lets see how they compare:
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Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Android Jelly Bean Coming to Samsung Galaxy SII, SIII, Note and Note 2
From TheDroidGuy. According to Samsung, the Galaxy SIII Jelly Bean operating system tests have passed through the firmware tests and is currently awaiting a few things including a ‘public version of software agreement’ from Google. There have been no issues in the testing of the SII and Galaxy note Jelly bean so far but they […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
OpenStack has the potential to become as widely used in cloud computing as Linux in servers, according to Rackspace’s chief executive Lanham Napier. Napier noted that OpenStack has more code contributors than Linux did when it started: it had 206 code contributors by its 84th week, whereas Linux took 615 weeks to get to that […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
1000Mbps internet speed coming from Google
Google will be launching 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) Internet connection in Kansas City, US. This will be run over fiber Will offer 2 TB of space Will offer HD video from Netflix and YouTube No more buffering and waiting This will drive a lot of cloud applications as network speed is the key bottleneck for […]
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Saturday, July 21st, 2012
10 reasons you might need a chief cloud officer
Cloud computing is more than just a new set of technologies businesses can utilize — it is a new way of thinking about technology. As a result, businesses are being challenged to transform every single practice and policy they are using to govern how IT systems are managed and deployed. This IT/business evolution spotlights the […]
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
XBMC coming to Android
XBMC Media Center is a very popular free and open source cross platform media player application that is developed by the XBMC Foundation. Being an open source application, XBMC media center software is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms. It has been a popular alternative to Windows Media Centre and likes, and now the […]
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Monday, July 9th, 2012
Meditation can keep you more focused at work
David Levy, a computer scientist and professor with the Information School at the University of Washington, found that those who had meditation training were able to stay on task longer and were less distracted. Levy and his co-authors discovered that meditation also improved test subjects’ memory while easing their stress. Read More.
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Saturday, July 7th, 2012
NVidia loses 10 Million GPU order and atleast $250 Million
The Chinese, who also developed the Loongson MIPS CPU, were looking to order at least ten million graphics processors. The problem is that the GeForce / Quadro driver from NVIDIA is only available for Linux x86 and x86_64 architectures, not MIPS or even ARM (only the Tegra driver is for ARMv7). NVIDIA refused to release […]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
And now an Android based Microwave!
As if Android everywhere wasn’t enough 🙂 Microwave Android Integrated Device (MAID) can auto-cook virtually unlimited number of dishes besides making microwave operations simpler with user-friendly interface. Read more.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Opportunities And Trends In Virtualization
Virtualization and its many flavors has been one of the most dominating and influential technologies that has evolved over the past five years. While the technology has gained wide acceptance, it is also seen as a key element behind the cloud computing wave that is sweeping the IT landscape today. Indian IT partners have started […]
