Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it still lags behind Vista, according to the?March stats?from Net Applications. Windows 8 shipped in October 2012, ...
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The U.S. distributor of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer quickly exhausted its limited supply of the devices Monday. Allied Electronics, which distributes the single-board computer in the United States, has posted a'no more' noticeat its ...
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ARE you confident about working on a notebook that stores your documents straight to the cloud? Are you happy to forgo Microsoft and Apple applications you have used for years, such as Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Excel, and Apple's iWorks ...
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As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
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As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
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A Spanish association of Linux users today accused Microsoft of anti-competitive practices, charging that Windows 8's Secure Boot blocks users from installing rival operating systems on new PCs. Hispalinux, which represents some 8,000 ...
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In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity switches. Switch Light is ...
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Wind River has introduced its first Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) profile for its Linux OS software offering. Formally registered for the CGL 5.0 specification with the Linux Foundation, the profile is the first delivery of Carrier Grade ...
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ANDROID and Apple account for more than 90 per cent of the surging smartphone market, and third place is being contested by BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Phone. But phones using operating systems based on the open-source platforms ...
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Linux professionals are in demand – around 75 percent of them have said that they have been contacted by a recruiter in the past six months. That’s one of the findings from a survey conducted by the Linux Foundation and tech ...
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Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple streams of 1080p video and augmented reality apps. The R-Car H2 system-on-a-chip is based on ...
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Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
A HANDFUL of new smartphone platforms are expected to become available this year, challenging the stranglehold of the two market leaders, Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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The field of IT is notorious for being persistently male-dominated, but that doesn’t mean women still suffer from a gender gap when it comes to pay. In fact, the compensation gender gap has disappeared for tech workers, according to ...
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