Nokia Kicks Its Auto Ambitions Into High Gear With Connected Driving, A Cross-Platform Suite Of In-Car Navigation Services and Smartphone Apps

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August 30, 2013

While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset makers like Samsung, it has also slowly been building out a business based around its mapping and navigation division,rebranded as HERE earlier this year. That strategy â€” which has seen deals with the likes ofToyota, Volkswagen, BMW and Garmin for its in-car navigation systems â€” is going into high gear today. Nokia is launching Connected Driving, which included HERE Auto for embedded in-car navigation; HERE Auto Cloud for extra services like real-time traffic updates; and HERE Auto Companion, apps that will make it seamless to link up location data that you want to use or that youâ€™ve created in your car, with what you are doing when you are outside the car and using your smartphone instead. On top of this, itâ€™s upgrading its HERE Traffic system with a new data processing engine called â€œHalo.â€

Argonne Hosts Workshop on Resource Intensive Open Clouds

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insideHPC

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August 30, 2013

Over at the Internet2 Blog, Todd Sedmak writes that Argonne National Labs hosted a one-day workshop last week to surface unmet needs for Open Cloud research and identify current and near-term solutions.

Through an open and thoughtful exchange, participants developed a shared understanding and vision of how open computing solutions can best support existing and emerging uses in a range of research disciplines. Workshop goals included incubating technical community; reaching consensus on a gap analysis (needs vs. current capabilities); and developing focused roadmap feedback for vendors. Some more specific short-term technical foci include: drivers for virtualization (or lighter-weight virtualization); cloud resource management and scheduler; and a platform for intensive applications.

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Enterprises are Adopting and Supporting OpenStack

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OStatic

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August 30, 2013

Debate is continuing over whether the OpenStack cloud computing platform has more hype than deployments, but that’s not stopping many large companies from adopting it. In one of the more interesting recent deployments, online and offline payments provider PayPal has moved several key components of its IT infrascture onto OpenStack, according to comments from PayPal senior engineer Scott Carlson at the VMworld conference in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Red Hat’s newly announced certfication program for OpenStack, along with its long roster of Fortune 500 customers, could be more good news for the platform.

ITNews covered Carlson’s comments on PayPal’s decision to go with OpenStack, where he noted that the decision was made to increase the company’s “fast reactions” to changes in the market. Many companies going with OpenStack are focused on its flexibility and ease of customization.

Allwinner Video Decode Gets Reverse-Engineered

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Phoronix

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August 30, 2013

The Allwinner A10 and A13 video decode support has been reverse-engineered as open-source…

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Mir Now Has Improved Multi-Monitor Synchronization

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Phoronix

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August 30, 2013

One day after Canonical developers landed Mir composite bypass support to dramatically improve the performance of full-screen games on Mir/XMir, Mir has picked up another important feature…

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Experimental Render Nodes Will Be In Linux 3.12

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Phoronix

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August 30, 2013

The experimental DRM render nodes support will be merged into the Linux 3.12 kernel. This work is a GSoC success story and makes it possible for Linux GPGPU compute support without needing an active display/compositor and ultimately for having multi-seat computing off a single display controller and another benefit is efficient compositor stacking…

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phpMyBackupPro – A Web Based MySQL Backup Tool for Linux

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Tecmint

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August 30, 2013

phpMyBackupPro is an open source very easy to use web based MySQL backup application, written in PHP language released under the GNU GPL. It allows you to create schedule backups, restore and manage them, download, email, or upload backups to any FTP server and lot more. It also takes File…

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Three Free Books on Open Innovation

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OpenSource.com

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August 30, 2013

I am a Copenhagen-based author, speaker, and strategic advisor who focuses on the topics of open innovation, innovation culture, and communication for innovators. I believe open innovation requires a global perspective and I have given talks and worked with companies in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.

Here I share three free books I’ve written on open innovation.

Wayland’s Weston 1.2.2 Incorporates Some Bug Fixes

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Phoronix

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August 30, 2013

Kristian Høgsberg released version 1.2.2 of the Weston reference compositor today for Wayland. The new releases are mainly to iron out some unexpected bugs that landed in the recent Weston 1.2.1 release from last week. Wayland meanwhile is still at version 1.2.1…

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Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch App Detailed in Leaked Screenshots

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The Verge

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August 30, 2013

Prolific leaker Evleaks has posted a pair of screenshots that detail the management app for Samsung’s new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear. According to the images, the watch, which Samsung has confirmed will be shown at IFA in Berlin next week, will be managed by an Android app that allows you to change clock faces and load new apps via the Samsung Apps store. It’s a similar system to that used by Sony’s SmartWatch series and the successful Pebble watch. The screenshots also show NFC will help pair the Gear with your phone, as well as revealing an option to “Find my watch.”

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