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July 25, 2013
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OpenDaylight Software-Defined Networking Codebase coming together

The OpenDaylight Project, the Linux Foundation-led industry-supported open source framework to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is coming together more quickly than many people expected. On July 25, OpenDaylight announced that many new technology contributions are being integrated into the project.

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July 25, 2013
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Top 5 Features in Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

Most people won’t find a new version of Android to be as sexy as the latest Nexus 7 tablet, nor will they find it as entertaining as Google’s answer to Apple TV, the Chromecast, but it will be bringing many new, strong features for both developers and end-users. Here’s my list of the best of them.

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July 24, 2013
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Ubuntu Edge might just change the computing world

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and its parent company, Canonical, is making a bet with the technology market. He’s betting that enough of you will be willing to invest in a smartphone that can double as a PC, the Ubuntu Edge, to raise the $32 million needed to manufacture it. You know what? I think he’s going to win that bet.

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July 23, 2013
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Build your own supercomputer: First $99 Parallella boards ship

Linux is the top supercomputer operating system. But while you can build your own Linux supercomputer using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, even with just Raspberry Pi boards,  these don’t natively support massively parallel computing — the cornerstone of modern supercomputing. That’s where Adapteva, with its $99 Parallella parallel processing single-board supercomputer, comes in.

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