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Three Views on Creating Open Source Developer Communities

I recently attended a great little conference about the craft of software development and where it’s going. It was called Monki Gras, and it was run by the fine analysts at Redmonk. It was held in Lo...

13 tim sedan

How Much Do You Really Know About Network Virtualization, SDN and OpenFlow?

Most of you reading this have heard of OpenFlow and some of the recent announcements regarding it. HP announced a whole new lineup of network solutions that takes advantage of this exciting new softw...

1 dygn sedan

DotNetNuke Launches Re-branded, Re-energized 3rd Party Marketplace

DotNetNuke the leading open source CMS for the .Net platform today announced the relaunching and re-branding of their 3rd party marketplace formerly called Snowcovered. The new store has over 10,000 ...

2 dygn sedan

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Rolls Out

"Before anyone gets all worked up and conspiratorial: everything in the remix is available from the standard Software Centre," Shuttleworth explains. "Packages out, packages in. No secret...

5 dygn sedan

Ruh Roh, Now The Bad Guys Are Using Open Source Too

What is good for the goose, is good for the gander, right?  Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldnt the open source method work with oth...

5 dygn sedan

More Google Wallet follies

Well, well, well!  It looks as though Google Wallet users who dont root their Android phones have something to worry about after all!  And when you read about the details of this particular flaw, you...

5 dygn sedan

Google to users: "Hey dummies! Dont root your Android phone and expect Google Wallet to be safe...

So website categorization company zvelo caused a wee bit of a stir today when it exposed a potential security vulnerability in Googles near field communications (NFC)-enabled Google Wallet mobile pay...

6 dygn sedan

My favorite Android browser is... something you may not have heard of!

So as youve likely seen, Google is finally releasing a mobile version of Chrome for Android, albeit on a very limited basis.  This is good news for a lot of reasons, the chief being that the default ...

07 feb 12

Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux

The Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, ranked number 64 on Esquires Best Bars in America 2011 list and landed spot number 31 on Complex Magazines 2010 list of the 50 best college bars in America. Rea...

07 feb 12

HTC, Without Its Own Horse Will Watch From The Sidelines

The mobile device market is a brutal place where only the very strongest survive. If you dont have your own horse in the race, you can easily go from first to back in the pack pretty quickly. Now it ...

07 feb 12

DataBase As A Service With Support

It seems like everything IT is being consumed as-a-Service (aaS) these days. So it should not be shocking that DBaaS, Database-as-a-Service is now available too.  EnterpriseDB, the company that has b...

06 feb 12

Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international program that pairs students with mentors and mentoring organizations. Students receive a stipend to write code and contribute to open source projects ...

05 feb 12

Techs original Great Satan calls out Google for being evil

My, how the tables have turned!  Microsoft is apparently placing ads in major newspapers this week (I say "apparently" because no one reads newspapers anymore and I thus have no way of fact-c...

01 feb 12

Whos Afraid of Night of the Living Maps?

"Its a LAN-party like feeling for map enthusiasts, and because you may have blood-shot eyes after 8hrs of non stop mapping, we decided to give it a zombie theme," the wiki announcement says. ...

31 jan 12

The Internet: It aint designed to protect your privacy

Over at Forbes, Scott Cleland has a pretty good column examining why there arent more social networks and email services that fully protect user privacy, despite the fact that users always get up in ...

31 jan 12

"We aint backin down," says defiant Google

Google is pushing back on some of the criticism many in the press have tossed its way over the past few days.  Google policy manager Betsy Masiello has taken to Googles public policy blog to clear so...

27 jan 12

Googles new privacy policy attracting attention from Congress

This isnt entirely surprising, but Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) is calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Googles sweeping new privacy policy that will extend to most of its major se...

26 jan 12

NYSE Takes Stock of Open Source CMS

Few global organizations can match the size, scale and importance of NYSE Euronext. (NYX). The leading global operator of financial markets, NYSE Euronexts markets represent fully one third of the en...

26 jan 12

Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?

There has been a not so silent debate going on in the security world about the security profile of the NoSQL database products. Read more

25 jan 12

Meet the Gentlemen Behind Gentlemint

You might be surprised by how many high tech happenings we see in Lawrence, Kansas. For example, does the Django web framework ring a bell? A new quirky site, Gentlemint — a masculine response to Pin...

25 jan 12

Sourcefire Stays True To Its Roots

Sourcefire is a security company that had its genesis in founder Marty Roeschs Snort open source intrusion detection system. Along the way Sourcefire has taken over the stewardship and introduced sev...

25 jan 12 1 person gillar detta

Shuttleworth Offers a Heads Up on Head-Up Display

The next long term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu is scheduled to roll out in April of this year, and users should expect to see "the first step in a major new approach to application interfaces...

24 jan 12 1 person gillar detta

Work-for-Hire in an Open Source Enabled World

Some time ago, I worked for a consulting services company that assembled solutions for their clients using open source licensed software as the building blocks.  Clients needed education, however, wh...

24 jan 12

Advice for social networks: Always let us opt IN to new features

Since Ive been giving Google grief for pushing Google+ onto users whether they want it or not, I suppose I should give Facebook similar treatment for now forcing its users to adopt the new timeline f...

24 jan 12

Google Reeds, 1/24/12

Here are some key Google links for January 24, 2012:   Forbes Eric Jackson takes a skeptical look at Google CEO Larry Pages claims of interaction on Google+:   Read more

24 jan 12

Google searches: Now with less evil (otherwise known as Google+)

My issues with how Google is pushing Google+ are well-known, so Im happy to report that some engineers from some major social networking websites have decided to do something about it.  Engineers fro...

23 jan 12

Google App Inventor Resurrected as Open Source Project

MIT annouces that Googles App Inventor is now open source, although contributions to the code will not be accepted until the MIT Center of Mobile Learning opens their App Inventor server to the publi...

23 jan 12

Google+ is now officially the creepy guy/gal your friend keeps trying to set you up with

Had enough of Google pushing its not-anywhere-near-as-good-as-F acebook social networking site on you yet, Internet users?  Well get ready for some more of it.  As the Google Operating System Blog rep...

23 jan 12

Google Fiber Falters in Kansas City

Almost two years since Google announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in trial locations throughout the US, the project seems to be hung up — on wires.  Read more

21 jan 12

What Does 2012 Bring For Hadoop, Big Data and MapR?

Big Data continues to be a big story in 2012. There are multiple companies with multiple distributions of Hadoop competing for market share. What does 2012 have in store for these companies? What abo...

20 jan 12

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