September 4, 2013
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When I was a kid, I liked reading Dick Tracy comics. This was during 1960s when the strip took a science-fiction turn and Tracy, who had long sported a two-way radio wrist-watch, started using a two-way wrist TV. It was fun then to think about high-tech electronics in a wrist-watch.
That was then. This is now.
Wearable computing: Why there’s no room for watches like Galaxy Gear. More >
September 4, 2013
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In 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. Today, with the release of Cassandra 2.0, the gift is more valuable than ever.
September 3, 2013
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For decades, Microsoft was a software company. Now, with the purchase of Nokia’s phone division, Microsoft has officially shifted to being a serious hardware company as well.
August 30, 2013
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It’s not that Linux’s core developers are “old.” After all, Linus Torvalds, Mr. Linux himself, is only 42. But for a few years now, the core Linux kernel developers have been aware that the top programmers have been getting older.
This isn’t just an impression. While as Amanda McPherson, The Linux Foundation‘s VP of marketing and developer programs, told me that “participation in Linux is greater than ever before” and that “more than 8,000 people had contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005,” a closer look at the Linux developer numbers reveals that the older generations of Linux programmers are fading away.
August 28, 2013
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Once more, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a pro-Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad organization, has struck on the internet.
This time, SEA hit The New York Times (NYT), Twitter, and other popular sites. Unlike previous attacks that relied on phishing attacks to gain password information from the target site’s authorized users, SEA is using the weak security of the internet’s master address book, the Domain Name System (DNS), to re-route internet traffic from its real destination to SEA-controlled sites.
How the Syrian Electronic Army took out the New York Times and Twitter sites. More >
August 28, 2013
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How do you judge if someone really has the expertise you need to run your OpenStack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud? Red Hat, the Linux giant and OpenStack backer, has a suggestion: Look for someone with a Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (RHCEI).