May 8, 2013
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To some, Windows 8 is a marketplace failure. But its flop has been nothing compared to Microsoft’s perpetual disaster in getting anyone to use its Windows Phone operating systems. You don’t need to worry about Microsoft’s bottom line though. Thanks to its Android patent agreements, Microsoft may be making as much as $8 per Android device. This could give Microsoft as much as $3.4 billion in 2013 from Android sales.
Microsoft’s most profitable mobile operating system: Android. More>
May 7, 2013
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I was pleased that Barnes & Noble (B&N) had updated its HD line with Google Store. I knew this software upgrade would make the low-priced HD, usually $149—$199 until May 12—a truly usable Android 4.x tablet. What I hadn’t realized was that it would transform it into a good, albeit low-end tablet.
New software upgrade turns Nook HD into good Android tablet (Review) More >
May 6, 2013
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Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit you could build at home, this story isn’t science fiction. NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux.
May 5, 2013
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Debian Linux doesn’t get all the attention it once did, but as the foundation for other, more popular Linux distributions, such as Mint and Ubuntu, the release of a new major Debian version, 7.0, aka Wheezy, is still a big deal in Linux development circles.
May 4, 2013
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Even before Tony Stark, billionaire technology genius, revealed that he was Iron Man in 2008, others were trying to build augmented fighting suits. Now that Stark has shown that Iron Man technology was within the reach of homebrew builders, work has started on the first open-source augmented fighting suits.
Iron Penguin: First open-source “Iron Man” suit within reach? More >
April 24, 2013
by sjvn01
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I get so, so tired of this. I write anything about any kind of cloud technology and I get these knee-jerk letters that say the cloud is just marketing garbage and it’s really just 1) client/server; 2) a data-center and/or 3) not worth thinking about. Please! Get a clue!
You can keep thinking like that if you like, but you know what? While many companies do indeed just paste the word “cloud” on what they’re trying to sell you, the cloud really does have a clear definition — thank you, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — and the cloud is not just the same old stuff with a new wrapper.
If you keep thinking that, if you keep refusing to learn about cloud technologies, if you keep refusing to consider adopting them, you are not going to stay employed in IT for much longer.