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Intel Bolsters its Wearables Team, Acquires Company Behind the Basis Fitness Band

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The Verge
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Intel made it clear during its keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year that it’s taking fitness devices seriously, and now it has announced a move to back that up. The chipmaker confirmed today that it has acquired Basis Science, the company behind the Basis fitness band. The band was first released in 2013, and an updated version came out last month. Like competition from Fitbit and Jawbone, the band collects walking data and sleep information, though it one-ups those other products with an optical sensor to record heart rate, perspiration, and body temperature. TechCrunch first reported the deal earlier this month for a rumored price of roughly $100 million. The final figure has not been announced.

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Uptime Institute Announces Award Winners for IT Efficiency

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ZDNet
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The First Annual Brill Award winners cover worldwide and regional IT leaders

Watch Live Video of Collaboration Summit Keynotes on March 26

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Libby Clark
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Collab SummitCan’t make it to Napa this week? Catch the Linux Foundation’s live video stream of Collaboration Summit keynotes on Wednesday, March 28, starting at 9:30 a.m. PST. (Login required) And check back into Linux.com for regular updates and photos from the conference.

Watch the Collaboration Summit Live Video Stream

9:30 a.m. 
State of Linux – Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

10:00am
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child – One that is Interoperable – Liat Ben-Zur, Senior Director, Product Management at Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. and Chairperson, AllSeen Alliance

11:15am
Redefining The Networking Industry Through Collaboration – Chris Wright, Red Hat

11:45am
Why You Need To Care About Container Virtualization – James Bottomley, CTO of Server Virtualisation, Parallels

2:15pm
Panel: How To Enable Mass Collaboration – Neela Jacques, OpenDaylight Project; Mark Hinkle, Citrix; Mauri Whalen, Intel; and Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation (Moderator)

3:30pm
Linux Kernel Developer Panel: Dave Chinner, Red Hat; Mel Gorman; Jens Axboe, Facebook; Matthew Garrett, Nebula; Greg Kroah-Hartman, The Linux Foundation; Jon Corbet, LWN.net (Moderator)

Dell Goes Big into SDN

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ZDNet
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New switch and fabric designed for high density SDN, NFV, and cloud solutions

Piston’s Josh McKenty Weighs In on OpenStack Compatibility, Market Saturation

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OStatic
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There are some interesting discussions going on regarding the OpenStack cloud computing platform and industry standards. Last August, we covered former Microsoftie and noted tech blogger Robert Scoble’s Google+ post saying that OpenStack would be sidetracked by any attempt to build in API compatibility with Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Meanwhile, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said that the OpenStack platform is “immature,” in terms of standards.

Now, in a discussion with Forbes, Piston co-founder Josh McKenty is discussing the standards issue, and compatibility, in more depth.

McKenty was, of course, one of the initial project drivers for OpenStack, and he knows the platform’s roots as well as its roadmap. There have been many recent initiatives surrounding structured compatibility testing for OpenStack, and Red Hat, among others, is certifying technologies for compatibility with OpenStack.

 

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Xen Project Team Hits the Road for Collaboration Summit

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The Linux Foundation
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You’ll find many of our members and contributors taking on more than coding this spring. We’re excited to attend several upcoming industry events and share Xen Project milestones, news, use cases and roadmap updates in-person with many in our community.

We encourage you to attend any of these upcoming Xen Project talks. And, if you do, make sure to introduce yourself to the speaker.  It’s always good to meet new people from the Xen Project community!

First Stop: Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

This week you’ll find the Xen Project team in wine country at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Napa Valley, California.  We have a terrific set of Xen Project sessions at this year’s conference. In fact, the schedule for March 27 reads like a mini Xen Project Summit.

Read more at Xen Project blog.

The Battle Over Virtual Machine Software

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ZDNet
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Although some believe that virtual machine software, the hypervisor, has become a commodity and is no longer interesting, many suppliers are battling to be the dominant supplier of this technology. They hope to bring customers into their ecosystem and hold them there. Does the hypervisor matter any more?

Going to the Extreme to Make 3D Printers Open Source

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OpenSource.com
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Lulzbot 3D printer cluster

The best way to explain 3D printing to someone is to show them. But since Jeff Moe can’t carry around one of his Lulzbot 3D printers, he has taken to packing 3D-printed parts in his pocket so that he can show them off when he runs into people who aren’t familiar with the concept.

“A lot of time when you’re explaining it, people are thinking of a 3D movie or something like that,” said Moe, CEO of Aleph Objects, the largest manufacturer of open source 3D printers. “I literally carry around parts with me and show people the different things that 3D printers can do because that explains it a lot better,” Moe said.

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Qt 5.3 Beta Released — Improves Android, Adds WebSockets

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Phoronix
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Digia announced this morning the first beta of the upcoming Qt 5.3 tool-kit…

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Android Wear — Wearable Devices Built Around Relevance

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ZDNet
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Google is able to offer something with Android Wear that no other player, big like Apple or small like Pebble, can offer. And that’s why it’ll win…

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