By Jim Lynch Android N and 3D Touch 3D Touch was one of the best new features of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. And now Android N will make it possible for Android …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: April 2016
Simple succeeds: Visual Studio Code at 1.0
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform development environment powered by Node.js and the Blink layout engine has been upgraded to a full 1.0 release after approximately a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker and CoreOS no longer have an image problem
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The OCI (Open Container Initiative), the Linux Foundation’s project for developing and maintaining standards in the software container community, has expanded its scope to include a spec for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Docker 1.11 adopts Open Container Project components
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The biggest news about Docker version 1.11 isn’t features in the application, but that it uses component versions that are standardized under the aegis of the Open Container …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Beam wants to be uber-API for big data
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•By Ian Pointer A long-standing joke about the Hadoop ecosystem is that if you don’t like an API for a particular system, wait five minutes and two new Apache projects will spring up …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Storm 1.0 packs a punch
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•By Serdar Yegulalp When big data mavens debate the merits of using Apache Spark versus Apache Storm for streaming data processing, the argument usually sounds like this: Sure, Storm has great scale …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Will the iPhone 7 win over Android users?
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•By Jim Lynch Will the iPhone 7 win over Android users? There are lots of rumors going around right now about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 7, and many in the media have been speculating about …read more Source:: OpenSource
Facebook open-sources Android byte code optimizer
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Late last year, Facebook enhanced the performance of its Android application with a byte-code-optimizing tool called ReDex. Now, ReDex has been open-sourced. Android developers can use …read more Source:: OpenSource
Don’t let Badlock distract you from real vulnerabilities
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid System administrators who’d spent the past three weeks on high alert over a mysterious Samba vulnerability can stand down. Not only did Badlock turn out to be a marketing ploy …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google open source hybrid cloud gets new OpenStack backup driver
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Google’s plans for creating a hybrid cloud based on open standards — namely OpenStack — kicked up another notch this week. The company announced in a blog post the …read more Source:: OpenSource