HANOVER: SMARTPHONES RUNNING Canonical’s Ubuntu mobile operating system will cost between $200 and $400, according to the firm’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Source: Tech
Category: Open Source Software
Open Source Software
Using Big Data for Competitive Advantage
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Companies worldwide are using big data to gain ever deeper analysis and rapidly and securely making those insights available to more people on their own terms. Big data capabilities and advanced business analytics have now become essential to nearly any business development activity. The benefits that enterprises can get if they can get their hands…
Valve Open Sources its ToGL Direct3D to OpenGL Abstraction Layer for Linux Developers
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Titanfall has been the talk of the town since its initial unveiling and we’ve finally arrived at its review mark. Source: Tech
Supporting Decision Making: The BI Sweet Spot
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Technology is integrated into the DNA of business and of society itself. Some of the most recent entrants are cloud computing, Big Data, and mobile. By putting these technologies together, we arrive at an intersection that creates a “sweet spot” where innovation can be enhanced within your organization. In his session at 5th Big Data…
Peppermint introduces cloud-based open source desktop to Africa
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Open source makes a lot of sense in rural areas and in third world countries. Lightweight and open source systems that are easy to use, and which allow normal users to become power users and contribute back to the open source community, can be ideal for countries like Cameroon, located in middle Africa. Source: Tech
VictorOps Makes Being On-Call Suck Less
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Everybody’s got a plan. Until they get punched in the face. It’s go time. You knew it was coming. Now what? VictorOps opens an incident that puts your customized company and personal escalation policies into play. Push notifications to our native mobile apps, SMS messages to your phone, or (gasp!) an actual phone call. We…
Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will
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Theo de Raadt was a founding member of NetBSD, and is the founder and leader of the OpenSSH and OpenBSD projects. Source: Tech
Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Amazon's GovCloud
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The new offering, in which Red Hat manages base RHEL images, is available on an isolated part of Amazon’s cloud designed for U.S. government agencies RHEL is now available on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, an isolated part of Amazon’s cloud designed for U.S. government agencies. Source: Tech
The Switchboard : a Bitcoin banka closes citing $600,000 heist
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The Yahoo logo is shown at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California in this April 16, 2013 file photo. Source: Tech
First look: Docker is a better way to deploy your apps
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An open source Linux container engine taking the world by storm is the newest, leanest, and cleanest way to get your app from development to production A long time ago, a computer program was a stack of punch cards, and moving the program from computer to computer was easy as long as you didn’t drop…