Someone Got Android 1.6 Running on a Graphing Calculator

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June 25, 2015

The open-source nature of Android means that you can run the mobile operating system on just about anything if you’ve got the know-how. Case in point: A YouTube user named Josh Max has managed to get it running on his Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX. If that name conjures up images of middle school algebra exams, it’s because it’s a graphing calculator.

Google Has Quietly Launched a GitHub Competitor, Cloud Source Repositories

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The Linux Foundation

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June 25, 2015

Google hasnâ€™t announced it yet, but the company earlier this year started offering free beta access to Cloud Source Repositories, a new service for storing and editing code on the ever-expanding Google Cloud Platform.

It wonâ€™t be easy for Google to quickly steal business from source code repository hosting companies like GitHub and Atlassian (with Bitbucket). And sure enough, Google is taking a gradual approach with the new service: It can serve as a â€œremoteâ€ for Git repositories sitting elsewhere on the Internet or locally.

10 Reasons Tape Backup Remains Important to the Enterprise

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eWeek

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June 25, 2015

Tape remains the backbone of many storage systems in the enterprise, which is benefiting from the technology’s leaps in capacity and density and other advances.

Will Red Hat Acquire Docker?

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eWeek

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June 25, 2015

VIDEO: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses how he considers potential acquisitions and where he might be looking for new companies.

AMD Is Working On A Low-Cost, ARM 64-bit Opteron Development Board

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Phoronix

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June 25, 2015

Some AMD news this week that got me even more excited than the Radeon R9 Fury X launch is word that they are developing a low-cost ARM development board for release later this year. This affordable development board will feature a quad-core AMD Opteron A1100 Series processor…

Google Removes “Always Listening” Code from Chromium

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ZDNet

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June 25, 2015

After including closed-source code that enabled Chromium to listen in to a computer’s microphone, Google bowed to backlash and removed it from the open-source browser.

Amazon Throws in $100 Million, Developer Tools to Open Echo’s Alexa Ecosystem

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ZDNet

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June 25, 2015

The technology behind Amazon’s Echo is being opened up to developers and third party hardware vendors as the e-commerce giant moves to expand the Alexa ecosystem.

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EXT4 Has Many Cleanups & Fixes For Linux 4.2

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Phoronix

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June 25, 2015

Ted Ts’o has sent in the big batch of EXT4 file-system updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window…

Sierra Wireless Releases New Embedded Module Powered by Linux

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Softpedia

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June 25, 2015

The Internet of Things is big marketplace and we keep hearing about companies like Intel, Dell, and Canonical who are trying to make some headway, but there are other competitors out there that are working just as hard and who are also using Linux as backbone, like Sierra Wireless for example.

Sierra Wireless is a multinational conglomerate, but it’s not the kind of company that you usually hear about, at least not as a regular consumer. Their products are usually shipped d… (read more)

Redis Labs Secures Multimillion Injection to Help Compete With MongoDB and Cassandra

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ZDNet

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June 25, 2015

New funding for the commercial Redis firm is designed to enable it to expand sales teams and increase research and development.