IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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Microsoft's 16-month browser ballot screw-up in the European Union cost Mozilla an estimated 8.8 million downloads of its Firefox browser,the open-source vendor's head lawyer said Tuesday. Microsoft faces fines that could reach into ...
Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easier to create apps for the new OS while at the same time developing apps for other ...
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Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
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Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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Network World-The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week,but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small ...
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Enterprise IT on the go with Windows 8 Windows 8 and the XP legacy What next for Windows 8 With the launch of Windows 8,Microsoft is taking a step into the unknown.In a bid to stop its lucrative PC operating system(OS)business losing ...
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Michael Ossmann,co-founder of Great Scott Gadgets,is developing HackRF,a software-defined radio(SDR)that lets you switch between radio frequencies on the fly. Most wireless gadgets,like the 3G antenna in a phone,operate using a fixed ...
Dries Buytaert started open source content management system Drupal as a part-time hobby in Belgium while he was completing his PhD in 2000. He founded Acquia in 2007 to make a profit from Drupal products. "For the first seven years, ...
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Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has provided a combination of OpenSource and proprietary software for Ysgol Maesydderwen school, near Swansea. Funded by Powys County Council, the Welsh school received installation of a ...
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Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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