Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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SATO 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 ...
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While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released ...
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program. In much the ...
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Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers. It also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime. Red Hat hopes ...
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Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for ...
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Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said Thursday. Google began the pledge with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for ...
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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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Werner Knoblich,Vice President and General Manager for EMEA, Red Hat Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and the Middle East. The firm said that it hopes to share ...
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Jakks Pacific is seeing increased demand for its line of fashion dolls inspired by the new movie, The Great and Powerful Oz. The Tollytots division of Jakks has launched a number of 11.5-inch fashion dolls. Oz is ready for adventure, ...
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Expanding its stack of enterprise ready open source middleware, Red Hat has integrated key software from its acquisition of FuseSource last September. Red Hat has folded both FuseSource's Fuse enterprise service bus (ESB) and FuseSource's ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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IBM's announcement this week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which helped ...
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IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which ...