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I/O 2013: Google Glass Designers Predict Possibilities for Wearable Tech Market

ZDNet | Friday May 17, 2013 06:00:00 PM | Enterprise Computing
There were approximately 6,000 attendees at this year's developer conference, and you can't walk a few steps without bumping into someone sporting the Android-powered specs. Read more...

5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars

Libby Clark | Friday May 17, 2013 04:58:40 PM | Featured Blogs | Exclusive
5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars Automakers have focused on the In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) System as their first target for open source software collaboration, specifically using Linux. Here are five reasons this approach makes sense. Read more...

Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on Innovation, OpenStack, Hadoop

ZDNet | Friday May 17, 2013 04:00:00 PM | Enterprise Computing
As computing systems become commoditized, the "profit pools are going to evaporate" for enterprise software vendors, said Whitehurst. Read more...

Is Patenting Open Source Software The New Normal?

OStatic | Friday May 17, 2013 02:46:08 PM | Software
Is Patenting Open Source Software The New Normal? In an interesting new Outercurve Foundation blog post from Penn State professor Clark Asay, he discusses "the tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios...gaining momentum in the FOSS community." Depending on who you talk to, the practice of patenting open source creations is either poison or an obvious requirement i... Read more...

Improving U.S. Weather Prediction With Petascale Supercomputing

insideHPC | Friday May 17, 2013 02:18:09 PM | High Performance
Improving U.S. Weather Prediction With Petascale Supercomputing Over at the Washington Post, Jason Samenow writes that an infusion of funding into the National Weather Service from Hurricane Sandy relief legislation promises to facilitate massive upgrades to key supercomputers, dramatically improving local, national, and global weather forecasts. This is a breakthrough moment for the National Weather Service and the entire U.S. weather enterprise... Read more...

Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies

ReadWrite | Friday May 17, 2013 01:32:00 PM | Enterprise Computing
Google And SAP: Two Very Different Cloud Strategies While both Google and SAP shared a 1980's music sensibility at their respective conferences this week - Billy Idol performed at Google I/O and U2's Bono walked the floor at SAPPHIRE - the two companies see the future of computing very differently. Even when the two companies agree on the importance of cloud computing, their strategies couldn't be more different. Read more...

Switching From Windows to Nix or a Newbie to Linux – 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies

Tecmint | Friday May 17, 2013 11:55:34 AM | Software
So you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux, or have just switched to Linux? Oops!!! what I am asking! For what else reason would you have been here. From my past experience when I was new to Nux, commands and terminal really scared me, I was worried about... Read more...

Samsung: Galaxy S4 Sales to Hit 10 Million Next Week

CNET | Friday May 17, 2013 11:46:02 AM | Embedded / Mobile
That's a faster sales rate than the Galaxy S3, the company's co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun said recently in an interview. [Read more]    ... Read more...

How Four Open Source Usage Models Impact Compliance

Wazi | Friday May 17, 2013 11:00:00 AM | Software
Before I jump into my topic, here is some background for those new to open source licenses. Open source licenses, like any license, grant the licensee certain rights that are usually reserved by and for the copyright holder (the author of the open source software (OSS) code), and spell out conditions that must be met by the licensee. You may use the OSS according to the grants given, so long as yo... Read more...

ownCloud Fixes Critical Security Vulnerabilities

The H | Friday May 17, 2013 10:08:00 AM | Enterprise Computing
The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems... Read more...

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