Samsung Tizen Based Gear Blink (Glass) to Launch in March 2015?

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September 10, 2014

These are certainly exciting times for Samsung Electronics and Tizen fans, with release the Tizen based Gear S, amongst other devices like the Gear VR. We were hoping to see Gear Glass, samsungâ€™s rival product to Google Glass, at IFA 2014 this year, but unfortunately that didnâ€™t happen.

According to some â€œindustry sourcesâ€ Gear Blink will launch in March 2015, at the same time as the Galaxy S6. The trademark number 4020140033123 in the Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS) refers to augmented reality to create a virtual keyboard that is projected onto your hands when viewed through the Glasses, making it possible for you to type using your hands, literally in thin air.

Intel Says Skylake PC Chips to Launch in Second Half of 2015

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eWeek

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September 10, 2014

The announcement of the next-gen processors, for two-in-ones and other systems, come less than a week after the release of Broadwell.

Former Red Hat Executive Brian Stevens Lands at Google

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ZDNet

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September 9, 2014

While not officially announced yet, Brian Stevens’ LinkedIn profile lists his new title. Under Steven’s guidance, Red Hat became a major OpenStack power and led the way to bringing Docker containers to Red Hat.

At Google, Stevens will use his abilities to bring Googleâ€™s Compute Engine (GCE) to the forefront of the enterprise cloud. While GCE’s not based on OpenStack, it’s otherwise a natural next step for Stevens.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Fedora Developer Announces New Partition Manager

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Linux Magazine

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September 9, 2014

New tool will look like GParted but support a wider range of storage technologies.

Mozilla Releases a New Firefox

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Linux Magazine

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September 9, 2014

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Firefox 32 is available through the Firefox website, and the new version will be making its way into Linux repositories and distro releases over the next few weeks.

Intel’s Core i7 5960X Is Fast & Wonderful Under Linux

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Phoronix

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September 9, 2014

After my first X99 motherboard burned up in a strange situation, since yesterday my Core i7 5960X Haswell-E system started working wonderfully with Linux after using a different motherboard. I’ve been hammering the system hard for the past day and no X99/i7-5960X issues have come about (albeit I’ve refrained from doing any overclocking or DDR4 tweaking yet) and this high-end $1000+ (USD) CPU is running great under Linux…

Citrix Cloud Leadership Changes May Be a Reaction to OpenStack’s Momentum

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OStatic

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September 9, 2014

When Citrix bought Cloud.com in 2011, it became the primary sponsor of the CloudStack cloud computing platform, and Citrix has had a remarkable level of success in the cloud. It also deserves credit for contributing the CloudStack platform to the Apache Software Foundation, and in this post, I took note of the fact that Citrix officials touted CloudStack as far and away the most widely deployed open source platform in the cloud.

However, the success of OpenStack has changed things, and there are some reports going around that significant leadership changes at Citrix focused on the cloud computing group may signal trouble…

To be clear, the open source CloudStack platform that Apache now oversees is a different branch from the commercial one that Citrix oversees. The open source version from Apache is moving forward, but it’s unclear what Citrix may be making of the momentum that OpenStack has.

Amazon Brings Prime Instant Video to All Android Phones

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The Verge

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September 9, 2014

Amazon is finally giving Android users a way to watch movies and TV shows from Prime Instant Video on their phone. That should be pretty good news for Amazon Prime subscribers, as they’ve long been able to stream onto most other major platforms — the iPhone included — while Android has remained left out.

Raspberry Pi-Powered In-Car Computer Project Shifts Up a Gear

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The Linux Foundation

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September 9, 2014

After watching classic TV shows such as Knight Rider and Street Hawk in his youth, IT professional and Raspberry Pi enthusiast Derek Knaggs was inspired to create a low-cost in-car computer using a Raspberry Pi.

The Pi sits in the centre console of his Ford Focus, wired to the display of an Xtrons DVD player (optional) as well as two TFT screens in the rear headrests. Control is via a Xenta wireless keyboard with mouse touchpad, while a smartphone can be used as a wireless hotspot to give the Pi an internet connection on the move.

Rumors Of An Imminent Enlightenment E19 Release

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Phoronix

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September 9, 2014

There might be an E19 release real soon.

The Enlightenment camp most recently released E19 RC3 as the latest development version of their lightweight but powerful window manager. E19 is a huge update in that it has its standalone Wayland compositor, better HiDPI support, and many other features. E19 is quite a feature-packed release.