For a limited time, the company also will offer up to $100 off the portable gaming device and free copies of several games with the purchase of certain Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics cards. [Read more]
Read more at CNET News
Angel, the Open Source Sensor Platform for Health and Fitness Funded on Indiegogo
Angel, is a super interesting wearable device coming up from indiegogo.
This project really looks awesome:
Angel is the first device designed with developers in mind. Currently most trackers for fitness and health are built for use by a single proprietary app. We want to change that. We are opening up every protocol, API and sensor data stream. Ultimately, this means more apps to choose from.
When it comes to openness, the Angel project dubs itself as open both in software and hardware.
That would be a great choice, as only an open hardware ecosystem (coupled with apps) could provide a good level of experimentation.
Read more at Open Electronics
Samsung Scores $100 Million NBA Deal for Courtside Tablets and TVs, Says WSJ
The NBA’s next provider for courtside electronics will be none other than Samsung, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal today. Sources familiar with the three-year deal value it at $100 million, with Samsung providing its tablets and TVs for use by NBA coaches, players, and referees during games. That’ll be the core of the arrangement, however additional collaboration — such as the NBA customizing video content for Samsung devices — and the inevitable brand exposure during primetime games will also be highly valuable to the Korean company.
Samsung has pursued an aggressive US marketing strategy, which in the basketball realm has included an endorsement form LeBron James and a prominent Jay-Z ad during the NBA Finals….
Read more at The Verge
Seagate Introduces a New Drive Interface: Ethernet
It’s not time to say goodbye to the old storage network quite yet, but a new combination of cloud, networking, and storage technology might mark the beginning of the end for SANs—Seagate has introduced a new storage architecture that puts Ethernet directly on the disk drive.
Called the Kinetic Open Storage Platform, the new approach turns disks themselves into servers, delivering data over the network to applications using an open application interface. The Kinetic platform is a combination of an open programming interface and intelligence and a network interface installed in the storage device itself. It’s targeted mostly at companies looking to adopt the same sort of architecture in their data centers that they use to connect to cloud storage providers such as Amazon.
Read more at Ars Technica
Development Release: Musix GNU+Linux 3.0 RC1
After nearly four years without a stable release, Musix GNU+Linux, a Debian-based distribution designed for musicians, has been resurrected. The new release is a candidate for the upcoming version 3.0: “The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 release candidate 1 after 11 months….
Read more at DistroWatch
LinuxCon/CloudOpen Goose Chase Ends in Tie for Grand Prize
Editor’s Note: This blog has been corrected. We made a mistake in announcing our winners. Madalina tied for the grand prize and Daniel took second place. Sorry for the error and congrats again to our winners.
Hundreds of people raced to the finish in the first-ever LinuxCon/CloudOpen Goose Chase. From showing your cowsay to the coffee cup that fuels your Linux work, you – the community – showcased your competitive nature and passion for having fun. The competiton was fierce through the end, which resulted in a tie for Grand Prize for Round Two (round one wrapped up in October, and the winners were announced at LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America). Because there are two Grand Prize winners, we will not be awarding a First Prize.
The winners of Round Two are:
Grand Prize: $500 Amazon Gift Card
Madalina-Ioana Alexe, Romania
Joao Paulo Rechi Vita, Brazil
Joao works for the Nokia Institute of Technology. His latest Linux project was adding BlueZ 5 bluetooth support to PulseAudio on the Linux desktop. He’s attended LinuxCon in Japan, North America and Europe this year.
“I participated in the Goose Chase at LinuxCon North America and found it really fun, so when I was showing the pictures to my girlfriend back home I found the {online} Goose Chase and decided to join it as well. And as I expected, {it} was a lot of fun again, specially because this time some of the missions needed quite a bit of creativity to be accomplished.”
Madalina-Ioana works for Intel Romania on Tizen and attended the Gluster Community Day this week at LinuxCon Europe.
“I found it is a fun game, which is still suitable for geeks. It was a nice and funny experience and I found out that there are even more geeks like me.”
Second Prize, $50 Amazon Gift Card
Daniel German, Canada
Congratulations to all our winners and thank you so much for participating in the Goose Chase!