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...
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...
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 ...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
"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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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