Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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Network World - Cisco, Brocade, Dell among others have jumped on board and look to ride the wave that is software defined networking. This despite experts' assertions that SDNs threaten Cisco's dominance in the tech industry. As is ...
Tags: Software, networking, tech industry, emerging technologies
n an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies that can be used to build Web applications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that cover most of ...
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Australia-Sydney Opera House is about to undertake the largest technical infrastructure development since the world renowned performing arts centre and architectural icon opened in 1973. Called the Stage Management System Project,the new ...
Opinionmeter International enters the Latin America market research arena with the addition of Global Movie Services based in Mexico City to its worldwide licensee Network. Beginning January 1, 2013, Global Movie Services will be ...
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As is somewhat typical of emerging technologies, there isn't a universally agreed to definition of what is meant by software defined networking (SDN). Over the last year or two most of the definitions have focused on the decoupling of the ...
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will mark “the end” of the computer industry’s dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows ...
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Digia has acquired the Qt framework from Nokia, giving it full control over the application framework, and now plans to expand support to more platforms, it said on Thursday. Digia, based in Finland, started taking over Qt in March 2011 ...
Tags: Digia, Qt framework, Nokia, application framework, Android, iOS, Windows 8
A hacked Colombian Transport website has been rigged to deliver a malware payload that is able to target Mac OS, Windows and even Linux systems, according to a report from F-Secure. MORE SECURITY: Smartphone, tablet security and ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will mark"the end"of the computer industry's dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives,Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows 8 is a ...
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On the smart-phone battleground, much attention has been paid recently to the quality of the free navigation app--Apple Maps--that comes with the new iPhone 5 (also part of the iOS 6 upgrade available for some other Apple devices). But ...
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Digia,the Helsinki-based software firm,has completed the acqusition of the Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Digia becomes responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. These include product ...
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Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
Tags: MDM, BYOD, ISC, Eric Green, mobile security
SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
Tags: tech companies, PCs, Intel, smartphone