Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT professionals that ...
Chinese search company Baidu has entered the country's smart TV market with a product powered by its video site iQiyi. The smart TV, which goes on sale Wednesday, was developed by iQiyi in partnership with Chinese electronics maker TCL. ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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Canonical will produce its Ubuntu Edge smartphone for launch in early 2014, despite failing this week to achieve the $32m funding it sought on crowd-funding website Indiegogo. According to CEO Jane Silber, the company will push ahead ...
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Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs). "The features that have been added are ...
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Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more relevant suggestions when users typed in URLs or search strings. The upgrade also sported a new ...
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Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
The market for x86 open-source PCs is now a two-horse race, with GizmoSphere releasing schematics and design documents for hobbyists to build from scratch a Windows 8 computer based on open design. The barebones PC runs on an Advanced ...
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There's "no reason at all" for the Force India Formula 1 team to upgrade its network operating system to Windows 8, Adrian Collinson, its head of IT, has told Computing. Force India's systems at both the factory and the track currently ...
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Canonical has claimed its first corporate backer for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone after Bloomberg, the financial news giant, signed up to the $80,000 "Enterprise 100" package. Canonical has resorted to the Indiego "crowdfunding" website in ...
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The Pirate Bay has introduced its own browser that can be used to circumvent censorship and blockades. The PirateBrowser is a simple, one-click, pre-configured Firefox browser that makes The Pirate Bay and other blocked sites instantly ...
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Researchers showed a Black Hat audience how femotcell technology, used by phone companies to boost cell phone coverage, can be hacked to intercept cell phone calls, text messages and other data. Tom Ritter and Doug DePerry , researchers ...
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Easing the path for organizations to launch big data-styled services, Red Hat has coupled the 10gen MongoDB data store to its new identity management package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. "The beauty of Identity ...
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USERS of Linux who subscribe to the online forums of popular strain Ubuntu have been urged to change their passwords after hackers stole up to 1.82 million user names and passwords. This especially applies to Linux users who use the ...