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IBM's Efforts to Expand The Use of Its Power Chips in Hyperscale Data Centres

Apr 30, 2014

IBM's efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centres just got a big shot in the arm from Google. The online giant showed its first home-built server board based on IBM's upcoming Power8 processor at an IBM ...

Tags: IT, IBM, Software, Computer Products

Valve Started Developing The Steambox After Microsoft Launched Windows 8

Oct 11, 2013

Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...

Tags: Valve, Microsoft

Valve Will Unveil More Details About Its Proposed Linux-Based "Steam Box" Console

Sep 18, 2013

Valve, the company behind Steam, the popular PC games platform, will unveil more details about its proposed Linux-based "Steam box" console next week. The news was revealed by founder Gabe Newell at LinuxCon 2013 this week in a keynote ...

Tags: Steam Box, Industrial Equipment, Components

Canonical Will Produce Its Ubuntu Edge Smartphone for Launch in Early 2014

Aug 23, 2013

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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The Market for X86 Open-source PCs Is Now a Two-Horse Race

Aug 16, 2013

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 ...

Tags: Windows 8, Open-Source PCs

Hackers Stole up to 1.82 Million User Names and Passwords

Jul 24, 2013

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 ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Computer Products

The Nature of Computing Has Changed Deu to Linux's Rise as a Cornerstone of IT

Jul 18, 2013

Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first ...

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Google Is to Enter "The Battle for The Living Room" with Its Own Games Console

Jul 1, 2013

Internet giant Google is to enter "the battle for the living room" with its own games console based on Android, which will connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to Google Glass, smart watches and other wireless devices. The aim of the ...

Tags: Google, Microsoft, Sony

Three Versions of Its Popular Linux Distribution Will Reach End of Life in May

Apr 9, 2013

Hard on the heels of Canonical's decision last month to halve the support life for non-LTS releases of Ubuntu Linux, the company late last week announced that three versions of its popular Linux distribution will reach end of life in May. ...

Tags: server version, Computer Products

Creating a Windows 7-Style Ubuntu

Feb 26, 2013

Windows 8's tile-based interface puts a bold new spin on the familiar Windows interface -- so bold that many longtime Windows users are threatening to jump ship to another operating system rather than learn Microsoft's "modern" UI. Of ...

Tags: Windows 8, Windows interface, operating system

Canonical Has Launched a Project Called Ubuntu Phone Core Apps

Jan 25, 2013

When Canonical officially announced Ubuntu for phones just a few weeks ago, it demonstrated an attractive interface but was otherwise light on specifics regarding the hardware, carriers, or apps that might be involved in actual devices. A ...

Tags: Canonical, Apps, Ubuntu

Samsung Plans to Launch Its First Cell Phones This Year Based on Tizen

Jan 6, 2013

IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...

Tags: Samsung, Multiple Tizen-Based Cell Phones

We've Known for Some Time That a"Pure GNOME"Version of Ubuntu Linux Was in The Works

Jan 4, 2013

PC World-We've known for some time that a"pure GNOME"version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works,and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10"Quantal Quetzal,"the first GNOME Remix of the software has now made its debut as well. "The ...

Tags: the new Gnome Remix

The Other Leading Linux Distributions,Casual Observers Would Have to Be Forgiven

Jan 4, 2013

PC 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

The Month of October May Have Been More or Less Dominated by Ubuntu Linux

Dec 28, 2012

The month of October may have been more or less dominated by Ubuntu Linux for those of us anticipating its recent "Quantal Quetzal" release, but this week the Linux Mint project made an intriguing announcement of its own. Specifically, ...

Tags: Linux Mint project, Mannouncement, Ubuntu Linux, Quantal Quetzal

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