July 19, 2013
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Based on Microsoft’s latest earnings report, its Surface RT is a flop. This, in turn, means that Windows RT has failed. But, there are many other would-be tablet operating system challengers to Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Seriously, though, do any of them have a real shot?
July 19, 2013
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Three years ago, on July 19th, 2010, Rackspace and NASA introduced OpenStack. Then, it was just another cloud stack project, a promising one but only one among many. Fast forward to today and OpenStack’s list of backers is a technology giant’s who’s who: HP, IBM, Red Hat, VMware, the list goes on and on. How did this happen?
Happy Birthday OpenStack! How did you grow up so fast? More >
July 18, 2013
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Simon Phipps, director of the Open Source Initiative, pointed out a problem late in 2012 with GitHub, the popular open-source development community site. Most of the GitHub-hosted projects did not have any license. By default, that made the programs subject to copyright protection with all rights reserved exclusively for the author. This means it’s not open source at all! Months later, GitHub’s executives have finally addressed this glaring problem by adopting a new policy to encourage developers to use proper open-source licenses.
July 17, 2013
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Almost two-weeks after Bluebox Security announced a vulnerability in Android’s security model that could enable attackers to convert most Android applications into Trojans, and more than a week after Google released the fix for it, the vast majority of Android OEMs has yet to patch the hole. So, Duo Security and Northeastern University’s System Security Lab (NEU SecLab) have released an app, ReKey, which fixes it for you.
Third-party app released to fix Bluebox Security Android hole. More >
July 16, 2013
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Say you want a private cloud, but you also want to be able to expand out into the public cloud when you must? What can you do? One answer is use Eucalyptus 3.3, which can work hand in glove with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
Eucalyptus 3.3 arrives with additional Amazon cloud features. More >
July 16, 2013
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Almost twenty-years ago in August 1993, Microsoft released its second networked version of Windows: Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It wasn’t a success. Success for Microsoft in a network-enabled operating system would come in the same year with Windows NT. On Sunday, July 14 2013, with a wink, Linus Torvalds released the first version of the newest Linux kernel, 3.11: Linux for Workgroups.