May 9, 2013
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Since Facebook started open-sourcing the data center in 2011 in the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook and its OCP partners have had some successes in making data-center computing more open and affordable. Now, the OCP takes on what may be its biggest challenge to date: Creating open-source, high-end network switches.
Open Compute to open-source high-end network switches. More >
May 8, 2013
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To some, Windows 8 is a marketplace failure. But its flop has been nothing compared to Microsoft’s perpetual disaster in getting anyone to use its Windows Phone operating systems. You don’t need to worry about Microsoft’s bottom line though. Thanks to its Android patent agreements, Microsoft may be making as much as $8 per Android device. This could give Microsoft as much as $3.4 billion in 2013 from Android sales.
Microsoft’s most profitable mobile operating system: Android. More>
May 7, 2013
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I was pleased that Barnes & Noble (B&N) had updated its HD line with Google Store. I knew this software upgrade would make the low-priced HD, usually $149—$199 until May 12—a truly usable Android 4.x tablet. What I hadn’t realized was that it would transform it into a good, albeit low-end tablet.
New software upgrade turns Nook HD into good Android tablet (Review) More >
May 6, 2013
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Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit you could build at home, this story isn’t science fiction. NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux.
May 5, 2013
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Debian Linux doesn’t get all the attention it once did, but as the foundation for other, more popular Linux distributions, such as Mint and Ubuntu, the release of a new major Debian version, 7.0, aka Wheezy, is still a big deal in Linux development circles.
May 4, 2013
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Even before Tony Stark, billionaire technology genius, revealed that he was Iron Man in 2008, others were trying to build augmented fighting suits. Now that Stark has shown that Iron Man technology was within the reach of homebrew builders, work has started on the first open-source augmented fighting suits.
Iron Penguin: First open-source “Iron Man” suit within reach? More >