The cross-over Android device wants to break through barriers and smash records. TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner boils down the three key takeaways. [Read more]
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Motorola Using its Own Multi-Core Chip in New Droids
Motorola is getting into the system-on-a-chip game. At Verizon’s event in New York City today, the Illinois-based manufacturer announced the Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, which the company is calling an “8-core” chip. It has a dual-core application processor, four graphics cores, a contextual computing core, and another core for “natural language processing.” Multiple cores designed for different processes like voice recognition should leave the dual-core processor free to handle traditional tasks from apps and save battery at the same time. The technology also supports functionality like “touchless control,” which was announced today. The feature allows users to use voice commands while the phone is in standby, and it’s likely…
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Fedora Developer Proposes Big Changes Focused on Agility, Better Design
Fedora remains a very popular flavor of Linux, and is favored by some of us at OStatic. Now, it looks like the working model for how Fedora’s ongoing versions are built might forever change. Matthew Miller, who is Fedora’s Cloud Architect, has announced a proposal to reshape the way that the Fedora Project builds its Linux distribution, focusing on more cohesive integration of the distro’s components. ‘Fedora.Next’ is a concept for organizing Fedora around a series of ‘rings’ that would have their own package requirements and component integration rule sets.
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IBM Unveils New “Mainframe for the Rest of Us”
Ready to run your Linux cloud, the zBC12 can run virtual Linux servers for about a dollar a day.
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Today, IBM unveiled the latest edition to its family of enterprise “big iron” aimed at broadening the appeal of mainframes. And while IBM’s existing mainframe customers may have reason to be interested in the zEnterprise BC12 as an upgrade, IBM is offering a version aimed squarely at new customers: one that runs Linux only. IBM claims the zBC12 is capable of running 520 virtual Linux servers simultaneously at a cost as low as a dollar a day per Linux server instance.
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Linux Fuels Automotive Innovation: Call for Automotive Linux Summit Speakers
After General Motors introduced the first-of-its-kind Cadillac User Experience (CUE) technology, now standard in the XTS and SRX, Toyota debuted a Linux-based, in-vehicle infotainment system in the new 2014 Lexus IS. This marks only the beginning of a major shift unfolding within the automotive industry, moving from a closed ecosystem with proprietary technology to an open innovation and collaboration environment.
The Linux Foundation continues to lead this charge, hosting our third Automotive Linux Summit this fall. The 3rd Annual Automotive Linux Summit, to be held Oct. 24-25, 2013, in Edinburgh, UK, will join the most innovative minds from the automotive industry and open source communities. It is the premier event covering technologies around Linux and open source for in-vehicle and infrastructure systems for infotainment, driver assistance, connected cars and more.
Whether you are an authority on vehicle communication buses at an automotive company, a software developer working on mobile applications, a university researcher exploring user interfaces, an open source compliance and licensing specialist, or a generalist involved in Linux and open source, I personally invite you to submit your speaking proposal.
Suggested topics for The Automotive Summit include:
* Linux on in-vehicle systems such as head-units and instrument clusters
* Linux for mission-critical applications
* User interfaces and graphics
* Driver assistance such as night vision, surround view, and augmented reality
* Virtualization
* Car and cloud
* Automotive grade Linux (long-term support, robustness, self-healing)
* Over-the-air delivery of software updates and content
* Legal issues, compliance and licensing
* Intelligent infrastructure such as roadway instrumentation.
Be among the exclusive group of internationally recognized expert speakers and take advantage of this excellent forum for presenting your work to many of the most inventive automotive and open source professionals. We also welcome great ideas for engaging panel discussions, as well as workshops taught by preeminent practitioners.
For more information and to submit your speaking proposal visit http://events.linuxfoundation.
But hurry, the call for proposals ends on July 31.