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Finding a Linux Job

December 6th, 2011 · Comments Off

So you want a Linux job do you? Well, according to The Linux Foundation, the jobs are out there. Specifically, Linux jobs are divided up almost evenly between developer, 53% and system administrator. 47%, jobs. Amanda McPherson, the Linux Foundation’s vice president of marketing and developer programs, told me, “The Linux jobs market is booming, [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Infrastructure · Java · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Red Hat · Server · SmartPhone · Tablet

Microsoft updates Bing app for Android and iOS, not Windows Phone 7

November 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off

If I hadn’t read it on Microsoft’s own Bing blog, I wouldn’t have believed it. The Microsoft Bing team has just released the new Bing for Mobile app for iPhone and Android… but not for Windows Phone 7 devices. Wow. Just wow. More >

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Infrastructure · Management · Microsoft · Network · Search · SmartPhone · Tablet

KDE takes on Android, Apple’s iOS on smartphones and tablets

October 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments

If another group was trying to take on Android and Apple’s iOS on smartphones and tablets, I’d dismiss them. RIM, BlackBerry’s parent company, is having a heck of a time getting anyone to buy into PlayBook and while HP TouchPad users loved it,HP killed the TouchPad after only a few weeks. So, why should anyone [...]

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Tags: Development · Embedded · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · SmartPhone · Tablet

Oracle vs. Google Android, Java lawsuit settlement talks will go no-where

September 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off

You can order CEOs to mediation, but you can’t make them agree. U.S. District Judge William Alsup may have gotten Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page into a courtroom to try to get them to settle Oracle’s lawsuit over Android and its alleged infringement on Java, but they’re not going to come [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Linux · Operating System · Oracle · SmartPhone · Tablet

A Google Android and Java history lesson

September 8th, 2011 · Comments Off

Recently, some people were shocked-shocked I tell you-to discover that Google had looked at Java to help create Android’s Dalvik and that Google kept its Android source code to itself and its closest partners until the final product was released to the public. Oh please. There’s nothing new here. It’s always been that way and [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Java · Legal · Open Source · Oracle · Sun