Android fragmentation will wreck Android for smartphones and tablets just as much as Windows fragmentation ruined Windows for the PC.
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April 5, 2013
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April 4, 2013
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There’s a new bear in the clouds: OpenStack releases Grizzly
If you like open source in your cloud, you have to be happy that the OpenStack Foundation has just released the latest version of its popular open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, Grizzly.
OpenStack, the so-called Linux of cloud computing, was founded by NASA and Rackspace software developers. Today, it’s supported by numerous companies and organizations. With Grizzly, Rackspace no longer dominates code changes. Red Hat, IBM, Nebula, and HP are also now major contributors.
While OpenStack lacks a strong single leader, a la Linux’s Linus Torvalds, the Foundation has been successful in keeping to its six-month release cycle. Grizzly comes after September 2012’s Folsom release, which was widely regarded as the first production-grade version.
So without further ado, let’s see what this latest version has brought us.
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April 4, 2013
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Intuit brings Mint to your bank
Intuit, makers of Quicken and QuickBooks, is making its popular online personal finance service Mint available to financial institutions. As Ron Shevlin, senior analyst at Aite Group, told American Banker, “I’m surprised it took so long“.
Indeed, you could see this move coming at least three years ago when Aaron Patzer, Mint’s founder and then Intuit VP and GM of personal finance said, “Quicken Online will be going away, and we’ll be migrating to Mint“. At the time, he also suggested that Intuit “will have desktop products for at least another five years, simply due to comfort level more than anything else”. We’re two years away from that deadline. Could this be the first step to putting an end to desktop Quicken?
That would be premature.
April 4, 2013
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CyanogenMod Android privacy vs. developer wars
It seemed like such a good idea. The developers of CyanogenMod, the popular alternative Android firmware, decided to require their users’ devices to report device-specific data so they could create better versions of CM. Who could argue with that? CM’s users could.
April 4, 2013
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Blink! Google forks WebKit
While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise.
While Apple and Google had long worked together on the open-source WebKit project for years, developers both inside and outside of Google wanted Google to move away from Apple. In addition, the two tech giants had different visions for the Web browser engine.
April 1, 2013
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Web browser war: The early 2013 report
The latest NetMarketShare browser numbers are in for March 2013. They reveal a three-way battle for the hearts and minds of PC web browser users, but on tablets and smartphones, Safari is leading by a wide margin. StatCounter, however, has Chrome and the Android native browser leading respectively.
Why the differences? The two most popular web browser counters use different methodologies.