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

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.

Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on Innovation, OpenStack, Hadoop

As computing systems become commoditized, the "profit pools are going to evaporate" for enterprise software vendors, said Whitehurst.

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Embedded / Mobile

Samsung: Galaxy S4 Sales to Hit 10 Million Next Week

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] ...

Google Engineers: We're Trying to Fix Android Fragmentation

During a Google I/O fireside chat, a team of Google Android engineers acknowledged continuing fragmentation issues with Android's software. Also: might Android get dramatically different camera abilities? [Read more] ...

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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 t...

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

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...

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Hardware

DRM Graphics Driver Comes For Dove/Cubox

The SolidRun CuBox is advertised as the "world's smallest desktop computer" with a size of just two-inches cubed (5cm). The CuBox is powered by an ARM PJ4 800MHz SoC and now it has available an open-source DRM Linux graphics driver...

Open Source Hardware Trademark Application Rejected

On April 19th the United States Patent and Trademark Office finally rejected an application for the trademark open source hardware. The grounds for the rejection were that the term was "merely descriptive." Trademarks are intended to identify a specific source of goods or services, protecting that s...

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Featured Blogs

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.

Open Cloud Take Two: The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013

The last year has been a whirlwind of activity for Apache CloudStack. Citrix proposed CloudStack for the Apache Incubator in April of 2012, and just over a year later we're gearing up for a second collaboration conference – this time in Santa Clara, CA, from June 23-25.

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