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Google Is Making Its IaaS GCE Available as a Full-Fledged Commercial Service
Dec 4, 2013After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
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SATO Announces The First-Ever Linux and Mac OS X Drivers Developed for Use
May 9, 2013SATO America Inc., a pioneer in thermal barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, announces the first-ever Linux and Mac OS X drivers developed for use with its thermal printers. Extending the compatibility to include additional ...
Tags: Textile World, Textile
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Linux Users Accused Microsoft of Anti-Competitive Practices
Mar 29, 2013A 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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, EU Antitrust Probe, Linux Group
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 Product Contains a Bug That Can Be Exploited Remotely
Mar 11, 2013Kaspersky Lab's Internet Security 2013 product contains a bug that can be exploited remotely, especially on local networks, to completely freeze the OS on computers running the software. The bug can be attacked by sending a specifically ...
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ARM Processors Are Used Mostly in Smartphones
Mar 8, 2013ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service. As part of the ...
Tags: ARM processors, smartphones, cloud service
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Third-Party Tools and Software Ecosystem Is Expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5 Family
Mar 7, 2013The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
Tags: software ecosystem, ARM, microcontroller
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CASC Will Focus on Promoting New Security Standards, Policies and Best Practices for SSL
Feb 18, 2013Several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have formed an advocacy group called the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), which will focus on promoting new security standards, policies and best practices for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) ...
Tags: CAs, web security, SSL deployment
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Linux Distributions to Be Installed on Windows 8 Computers
Feb 18, 2013Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ...
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A Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Patched Expose Apps to Remote Code Attacks
Feb 18, 2013A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. CURL is a ...
Tags: buffer overflow vulnerability, remote code execution attacks, protocols
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The Popular Games Platform Steam Is Now Available for Linux Laptops
Feb 17, 2013The popular games platform Steam is now available for Linux laptops, according to a blog by Canonical, distributor of the Ubuntu operating system. While Linux has long been one of the main operating system of choice on the server, ...
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Software That Allows Linux to Work with Computers Running UEFI Was Released
Feb 16, 2013The Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware, which all Windows 8 machines do. The Linux Foundation Secure Boot System solves a ...
Tags: Linux Foundation, software, UEFI, Windows 8 machines
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Atmel Says It Is Shipping Production Quantities of The Its SAMA5D3 Series Microprocessor
Feb 5, 2013Atmel says it is shipping production quantities of the its SAMA5D3 series microprocessor, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A5 core with an on-chip floating point unit. The SAMA5D3 microprocessors are fabbed on a 65nm process technology ...
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VMware Has Bucked Recent Hiring Trends in The Tech Sector by Announcing 900 Job Losses
Jan 29, 2013VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
Tags: VMware, Server Virtualisation
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The Other Leading Linux Distributions,Casual Observers Would Have to Be Forgiven
Jan 4, 2013PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
Tags: Linux Lite 1.0.0
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The Linux Foundation Has Introduced a Possible Way
Jan 4, 2013Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
Tags: Linux, Boot, Computer Products, Linux and Unix