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Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments

I like Apple products. God knows I own and use enough of them. But, I hate their out-sourcing business practices and their world-wide anti-Android lawsuits. So, when I learned this morning that Motorola Mobility had won a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud service in Germany because of a patent violation and Motorola had followed that [...]

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Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Infrastructure · Legal · Motorola · SmartPhone · Tablet

Spark, free-software Linux tablet, to ship in May

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

Aaron Seigo, one of the KDE’s lead developers, and a leader of the Spark free-software Linux tablet development effort, has reveled more about the Spark, including, alas, that the Spark won’t be available until May 2012. Seigo explains, “We have a lot of pieces to coordinate, and not just technical issues like the OS image [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Tablet

Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years

January 31st, 2012 · No Comments

I’m a big believer in “It’s not broke, then don’t fix it.” So is leading Linux company, Red Hat. The company has just announced that it is extending the production lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years in response to enterprise customer demand and Red Hat’s hardware [...]

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Tags: Business · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Red Hat · Server

IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Development · IBM · Office Software · Open Source

How to keep your face out of LinkedIn ads

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

Google has unified its privacy policies, Facebook is rolling out its Timeline feature, and the FBI is looking for help to monitor all the social networks. All that has people feeling a little twitchy about the personal information they’ve placed online. And, now some people have noticed that LinkedIn, the business and jobs social network, [...]

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Tags: Business · Internet · Network · Security · Social Networking