Fusion-io offers an array of flash-based storage devices and storage virtualization software. The company’s Atomic series of ioMemory devices focuses on application acceleration.
Red Hat Looks to the OpenStack Cloud With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 brings updated KVM virtualization to RHEL 7 and OpenStack.
Fedora Rawhide Can Now Run The X.Org Server Without Root Rights
Following a lot of work by Hans de Goede at Red Hat, Fedora Rawhide now supports running the X.Org Server without root rights…
Microsoft C# Chief Hejlsberg: Our Open-Source Apache Pick Will Clear the FUD
Redmond goes for deep-cleanse
“Pushing that button was one of the more impactful clicks of my career,” says Microsoft’s C# lead architect Anders Hejlsberg. The click in question was made on stage at Microsoft’s Build conference in April, and its effect was to publish the .NET Compiler platform, codenamed Roslyn, as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.…
Intel VA-API Driver Gets H.264 Encoding Improvements For Broadwell
Version 1.3.2 of Intel’s VA-API driver for open-source video encode/decode using modern Intel HD Graphics GPUs has been released…
Linux 3.16-rc1 Kernel Released
As anticipated, the Linux 3.16-rc1 kernel was released on Sunday night…
War Thunder MMO Combat Game Is Coming To Linux
Several Phoronix readers have been writing in with word via a video recording that War Thunder is coming to Linux. War Thunder is an online multiplayer combat game that’s currently in open beta for all major (non-Linux) platforms…
ARM Announces ‘Lab in a Box’ for Universities
ARM’s ‘Lab in a box’ aims to boost the development of audio systems and smart home devices.
Microsoft’s Secret Android Patents Revealed by Chinese Government

Microsoft has been licensing access to part of its patent portfolio for several years now, offering device makers protection from litigation related to Android and Chrome OS. While Microsoft boasts than more than 70 percent of Android phones sold in the US are covered by licensing agreements, the company has never listed what patents are infringed by Android. Instead, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has now revealed a list of more than 300 patents and applications held by Microsoft that formed the Chinese approval of the Nokia deal recently.
The list includes 73 standard-essential patents, but there’s also 127 patents that Microsoft claims are implemented in Android. Some on the list, as Ars Technica notes, include patents that…
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