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Category Archives: Infrastructure

May 16, 2012
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Google to centralize Android development and sales

For all its popularity, Android programming, sales, and marketing has been… chaotic. Every hardware vendor makes its own Android mix, which more often than not is based on an older version, and each company sales and markets their smartphones and … Continue reading →

May 15, 2012
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Will the Google Chrome Web browser come to Apple’s iPads and iPhones?

Macquarie (USA) Equities Research, a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, is speculating that Google will be bringing its popular Chrome Web browser to Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod iOS. Will Google do this? And, … Continue reading →

May 14, 2012
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Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop (Review)

I have been using Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, since day one back in September 2003 when Red Hat split its commercial Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Back then, people hated Red Hat for this move, but businesses … Continue reading →

May 10, 2012
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Is Microsoft blocking Chrome and Firefox from native Windows RT a big deal?

Mozilla and Google, makers of the Firefox and Chrome Web browsers, don’t have a problem with building new versions of their popular browsers for Windows 8’s Metro interface. Firefox for Metro is on its way and so is Chrome. What … Continue reading →