Acer, a Taiwanese computer and smartphone vendor, wasn’t happy. Alibaba, which is China’s largest e-commerce company, was even less happy. The company claims it wants Aliyun OS to be the “Android of China” and that they’ve spent years working on their Linux-based mobile operating system.
Google didn’t see it that way. Google thinks Alibaba is an Android rip-off.
nnocence of Muslims is a crude and trashy video that portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a hate-mongering bum who approves of violence and sexual child abuse. Considered by Western audiences that adores the popular cartoon South Park, which mocks many religions on a regular basis, Innocence of Muslims is clearly insulting, but it’s too boring to be worth a second thought. By conservative Islamic standards it’s blasphemy. And, it’s sparked the murder of four American diplomats in Libya.
Google, YouTube’s owner, but in no way, shape, or form the video’s creator, is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, as part of the Western culture, they’re invested in freedom of speech. On the other, this shabby video has been used as an excuse for murderous attacks.
The sheer scale of Twitter is amazing: 2.8-billion tweets a day works out to about 5,000 tweets a second. Each tweet of 140 characters (or about 200 bytes) has to be sent, recorded, and retransmitted to up to 20 million followers in less time than it took you to read this paragraph.
So, how does Twitter do it? With Linux and open-source software.
“On the surface, Twitter is a simple real time service where the unit currency is 140 character messages called Tweets. However, if you look underneath the surface, there are over 2.8 billion tweets being sent out a day at an average steady state of 5,000 Tweets a second,” Aniszczyk says. “At this scale, you have to deal with some interesting real time engineering problems.”
I hate to break it to you, but the new iPhone 5 is not going to be the second coming of Steve Jobs; it’s not going to give the economy a big push upward; nor will it be the best phone ever. It’s just going to be a new smartphone.
The real news, which has been written on analyst walls around the world for months, is that Android phones continue to out-sell iPhones by a wide margin. For all the hype, for all the hysteria, iPhones come in second to Android.
I hate to break it to you, but the new iPhone 5 is not going to be the second coming of Steve Jobs; it’s not going to give the economy a big push upward; nor will it be the best phone ever. It’s just going to be a new smartphone.
The real news, which has been written on analyst walls around the world for months, is that Android phones continue to out-sell iPhones by a wide margin. For all the hype, for all the hysteria, iPhones come in second to Android.
Go Daddy, the popular and controversial Web domain and service company, which crashed and burned, along with millions of it customers on September 10th, is now claiming that it wasn’t taken down by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, but by “a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables.”
Want to do your part in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections? There’s an open-source app. For that.
The Democratic party has released a Ruby on Rails open-source program, Voter Registration that enables you to deploy a Web application that enables U.S. citizens to register to vote. There is also a version that you can simply embed on your site, which is branded for the Obama/Biden campaign. The open-source version is unbranded so there’s nothing on it that even a Tea Party member could object to.
To deploy the open-source version, your Web site will need to have Ruby 1.9.3 installed and the the RubyGem “bundler” installed. RubyGem is the Ruby package manager.
