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Android is a Mess and Needs Sprucing Up, Admits Chief

Can Google really fix it? It isn’t in control any more

Comment  Android looks unstoppable, and it’s a mess. The first fact tends to eclipse the second observation, but Android’s new supremo diplomatically acknowledges as much in an interview.…

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Ubuntu to Stop Brainstorm

The collaborative ideas site is to finally close, having been left behind by changes to how Canonical designs the Ubuntu operating system. Meanwhile, the company is to return the “Community” button to the top of its pages.

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Ubuntu 13.04 “Raring Ringtail” Server Installation Guide

Ubuntu 13.04 non LTS “Raring Ringtail” Server was released on 25 April 2013. This guide shows installation of recently released Ubuntu 13.04 Server with screenshots. This release includes latest and greatest packages, some of them are OpenStack Grizzly Pythan Juju 0.7 Ceph 0.56.4 MAAS…

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Windows 8 ‘Sales’ Barely Half as Good as Microsoft Claims

Don’t even mention the XP/Vista sales comparisons

Microsoft claimed last week that it’s made ‘100 million’ Windows 8 sales and the claim has been widely repeated. But channel feedback and the experience on the ground point to a very different picture.…

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Silvermont: Intel’s Silver Bullet for Mobile?

More than five years after Intel first announced Atom, the company has introduced the first top-to-bottom redesign of its low-power processor. With the Silvermont microarchitecture, does Intel finally have all the ingredients to challenge ARM in smartphones and tablets?

Linux-Based Robonaut 2 Preps for Active ISS Duty

NASA’s Linux-based “Robonaut 2″ is undergoing extensive testing on the International Space Station (ISS), and will soon be put to work. The humanoid Robonaut 2 will soon receive a major upgrade that will provide legs and an expanded battery pack, enabling it to perform more duties, including space walks. Robonaut 2 arrived at the ISS […]

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Why I’m Ready to Ditch my Dedicated Server and Move to the Cloud

Servers are big boxes of stuff just waiting to break. Over the weekend I got to play network administrator, and the experience has convinced me it’s time to get rid of my dedicated server and move everything to hosted services.

Could Hybrids be the Death of Tablets?

Are hybrid systems destined to kill off the tablet, or are they just another PC form factor waiting to fail?

Tiny Module Snaps Quad-Core Qualcomm Into Devices

Inforce Computing has spun a Qseven computer-on-module (COM) featuring Qualcomm’s quad-core, 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 system-on-chip (SOC). The $199 Linux- and Android-ready IFC6400 COM comes with 2GB RAM, 8GB flash, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a MIPI-CSI camera input, and is available with an optional Mini-ITX baseboard. Almost all the functionality on the IFC6400 is […]

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Cinnarch Successor Antergos Arrives

Replacing Cinnarch, Antergos offers a GNOME-defaulting, but fairly desktop agnostic take on Arch Linux. With an additional graphical installer, Live CD option, and more it’s sure to pick up some fans for its approach to desktop Linux.

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