HUD-Enabled Ski Goggles Run Android

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November 20, 2013

Recon Instruments announced an Android-based $399 heads-up display (HUD) designed to fit inside ski goggles. The Snow2 is equipped with a 1GHz, dual-core processor, a 428 x 240 mini-display, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and sensors, and it syncs to Android and iOS devices. The Snow2 updates a previous MOD Live HUD wearable that was similarly […]

The Immortal Mainframe and What it Means for the Future of Application Development

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ZDNet

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November 19, 2013

How can we go about delivering modern services on old school technology?

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Install Google Chrome 31 in CentOS/RHEL 6, Fedora 19/18

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Rahul Kumar

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November 19, 2013

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. Chrome30 is latest version available released by Google.

Read article Install Google chrome on CentOS & RHEL 6 and Fedora 19/18 for installing latest google chrome on your Linux PC

Tiny Hackable $40 SBC Runs Linux on Allwinner A10

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LinuxGizmos

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November 19, 2013

Olimex’s OLinuXino project announced a tiny, Android- and Linux-ready single board computer based on Allwinner’s 1GHz, Cortex-A8 based A10 processor, and the first one to be offered with a mini-PC enclosure. The open source A10-OLinuXino-Lime offers 512MB of DDR3 RAM, an optional 4GB of NAND flash, plus HDMI, SATA, USB, and Ethernet, starting at only […]

Docker: An Open Source Startup You Need to Know About

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ZDNet

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November 19, 2013

Docker, Inc. (formely known as dotCloud) is the company behind the open-source Docker project and the growing Docker ecosystem of people, products, platforms, and partners revolutionizing the way code is built, packaged, and deployed.

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How to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS using Yum

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Rahul Kumar

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November 19, 2013

phpMyAdmin is web based client written in php for managing MySQL databases. It provides an user friendly web interface to access and manage your databases.

Read this article to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS/RedHat System. It required Apache, PHP and MySQL to be installed on server. If you do not have them read our turtorials to how to install them

Steps to install JAVA on CentOS 5/6 or RHEL 5/6

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Rahul Kumar

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November 19, 2013

Many times we faced issues with installing java using rpm or other source. After that i found a better wayto install java from Sun site. Using below steps i have installed java successfully many times without facing any issues. We can also install multiple version of java easily if required

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How To Install Tomcat 7 Server on CentOS & RedHat

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Rahul Kumar

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November 19, 2013

Apache Tomcat is an opensource webserver product of Apache Foundation like Apache HTTP server. It is used to deploying Java Servlet and JSP applications. To deploy any application in Tomcat we can simply create a war file and deploy them.

Read this article Install Apache Tomcat on CentOS/RHEL servers for details information.

Motorola Releases Android 4.4 KitKat Update for Verizon Moto X

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November 19, 2013

Motorola announced today that the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Verizon version of the Moto X would begin its rollout. This deploy comes a mere three weeks since KitKat was officially launched with the Nexus 5, an impressive turnaround to say the least (it’s also beats Google to releasing the update for Google Play Experience smartphones and some Nexus devices). Motorola says the update includes many of the KitKat enhancements, such as the interface refresh and smart dialer. But Motorola doesn’t mention the Google Experience launcher in its release notes, and it seems that is still an exclusive to the Nexus 5. Verizon users should get notifications on their Moto X devices starting today, and the company says that it will announce…

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How Munich Rejected Steve Ballmer and Kicked Microsoft out of the City

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The Linux Foundation

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November 19, 2013

Breaking up with Microsoft is hard to do. Just ask Peter Hofmann, the man leading the City of Munich’s project to ditch Windows and Office in favour of open source alternatives.

The project took close to a decade to complete, has seen the city wrestle with legal uncertainties and earned Munich a visit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, whose pleas to the mayor of Germany’s third largest city not to switch fell on deaf ears.

Munich says the move to open source has saved it more than €10m, a claimcontested by Microsoft, yet Hofmann says the point of making the switch was never about money, but about freedom.