July 25, 2013
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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.
July 24, 2013
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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.
July 23, 2013
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Perhaps OpenOffice should adopt a new slogan from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “I’m not dead yet!” While LibreOffice has supplanted it as the default office suite for Linux distributions, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the immediate availability of OpenOffice 4.0 on July 23.
July 23, 2013
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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.
Build your own supercomputer: First $99 Parallella boards ship. More >
July 23, 2013
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If you still think the cloud is just so much marketing hot air, RightScale, a cloud management company, has news for you: Almost 50 percent of businesses have already moved at least some applications to the cloud.
July 19, 2013
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Anyone can set up and run a single server instance on a cloud. That’s easy. Few people can set up multiple server instances on a cloud that can efficiently and automatically shift gears to match the rise and fall of user demand. That’s hard. And that’s where cloud configuration management programs such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansile come in.