IDG News Service-The source code of"We The People,"the online system that can be used by citizens to submit their petitions to the White House,is being offered as open source software,an official said on Thursday. "Now anybody,from other ...
Tags: petitions, open source software, SOPA, PIPA, API
Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL compliant and standardise the service globally. The optical retail chain implemented BMC FootPrints in 2008, when it upgraded a system ...
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Open source"big data"technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. For ...
IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on ...
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Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the ...
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Microsoft on Thursday released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source in an effort to increase transparency. The move is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies,a company subsidiary launched in April to ...
Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
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Free design tools and low cost board prototyping means development kits do not necessarily have to be the inevitable starting point for many designs,writes Mark Cundle,head of technical marketing at RS Components. Experience tells us that ...
Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards. The consultation closed on 4 June, with the Cabinet Office IT team under deputy government CIO Liam ...
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