Enterprise Linux powerhouse Red Hat, is bringing its JBoss Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) middleware to its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offerings.
September 24, 2013
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September 23, 2013
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Apple iPhone fingerprint reader confirmed as easy to hack
It’s official. Security researchers Nick DePetrillo and Robert Graham have confirmed Germany-based Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hackers’ claim that they bypassed the fingerprint reader in Apple’s iPhone 5s, called “Touch ID”.
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September 23, 2013
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Red Hat: Big bucks, big Linux
Who says you can’t make money from Linux? Not Red Hat!
In its 2013 second quarter, Red Hat saw total revenue for the quarter of $374 million. That was an increase of 16 percent in US dollars from 2012’s second quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $327 million, up 17 percent in U.S. dollars year-over-year.
September 23, 2013
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SteamOS: The Linux for games is coming
Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, wasn’t kidding when he said at LinuxCon in New Orleans that “Linux is the future of gaming.” Valve is releasing, in advance of the expected announcement of its SteamBox Linux-powered gaming console, its own Linux for gamers: SteamOS.
September 23, 2013
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Cyanogen: Helping to unify Android
Will Cyanogen, the newly minted commercial company behind the alternative CyanogenMod Android firmware, actually help fragment Android? Hmmm… Here’s the one word answer: “No.”
September 22, 2013
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Penguins in Space! Asteroid mining and Linux
When I was a kid in the 60s, books such as Miss Pickerell on the Moon, On the Trail of the Space Pirates, and Robert A. Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones had me dreaming of flying rockets to asteroids with my trusty Geiger counter and pick-axe in hand. It was science fiction then. Planetary Resources is on its way to making it science-fact within the next few years.