After reaching smartphones and tablets, Google’s mobile OS is stretching to electronic headwear. And looking on the bright side, the CEO says Android fragmentation shows innovation and flexibility. [Read more]

Intel CIO Kim Stevenson on Big Data, OpenStack, Women in IT

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ZDNet

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April 18, 2013

Intel’s chief information officer talks about avoiding cloud provider lock-in, what will never go in the cloud and the returns on big data projects.

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OpenStack Is Taking Important Steps Forward

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OStatic

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April 18, 2013

This week, the OpenStack Summit is going on, and in conjunction with the conference there are lots of signs that the open source cloud computing platform is going to start heading into high gear for the remainder of 2013. Red Hat advanced its enterprise Red Hat OpenStack offering into an Early Adopter Program and announced the availability of RDO, a community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives. Meanwhile, there are reports that some enterprises are ditching Amazon Web Services (AWS) for OpenStack, in a push to gain more control over their cloud-based futures.

LLVM/Clang 3.3 Should Be Close To Building Linux Kernel

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Phoronix

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April 18, 2013

Developing are reaching a point where the mainline LLVM/Clang compiler in an “out of the box” configuration can compile the mainline Linux kernel with only a few patches against the kernel’s source tree. This summer’s release of LLVM/Clang 3.3 should be a big milestone…

The State & Future Of The GNU C Library (GLIBC)

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Phoronix

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April 18, 2013

Red Hat’s Carlos O’Donell provided an update this week on the GNU C Library along with some recent and upcoming features for glibc…

Intel Does Fast Math With MKL On Linux

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Phoronix

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April 18, 2013

Intel’s Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) and their Math Kernel Library (MKL) provide for very fast math operations with modern processors…

Kubuntu Gets Better Artwork for 13.04

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Muktware

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April 18, 2013

Kubuntu, the KDE flavour of Ubuntu, is getting ready for the 13.04 release. Not only is it getting latest and greatest from the KDE stable, including 4.10.2, it’s also polishing the UI a bit.