Health IT Worker Shortage Will Stunt Sector Growth, Study Says

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March 12, 2013

A majority of businesses will invest in health IT this year, but nearly as many are worried that they still won’t be able to keep up.

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Did Amazon Just Nuke Enterprise Private Clouds?

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ZDNet

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March 12, 2013

AWS is now saying that you can do private cloud by default in EC2. The upshot: It may be bit harder for rivals to pitch servers, storage and networking gear with AWS lurking in the background.

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Tiny Computer Module Boasts 1.65GHz AMD APU, Linux

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LinuxGizmos

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March 12, 2013

AndersDX is shipping a miniature computer-on-module (COM) based on a dual-core 1.65GHz AMD G-Series APU. The CM-iGT provides rich graphics and multimedia capabilities and is supported with embedded Linux. The CM-iGT’s AMD G-Series APU integrates a dual-core, 64-bit x86 CPU clocked at up to 1.65GHz (depending on board model). The module also supports up to […]

Windows Embedded Expert Jumps Into Open Source

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Linux Training Staff

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March 12, 2013

With the growth of Linux and open source, Sean Liming decided that heâ€™d like to beef up his Linux knowledge.

Google Encourages Companies to Work Together on Patent Licensing to Stop Patent Trolls

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The Verge

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March 12, 2013

Google has recently been taking a hard line on the US patent system, claiming that it over-rewards the work of coming up with an idea while taxing those who do the work of actually implementing it. The company also takes issue with excessive patent litigation from so-called “patent trolls,” and now Google is encouraging companies to work together to cross-license patents to help cut down on frivolous lawsuits. On a new site that Google launched today, the company outlines four different, royalty-free patent licensing agreements that it believes will help protect participants from patent trolls.

It’s also asking for interested parties to take a survey and submit feedback on its proposals to help determine which of the approaches it…

Ubuntu Developing Its Own Calculator, Calendar, Etc

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Phoronix

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March 12, 2013

Further differentiating itself from the GNOME desktop stack it was previously based upon, developers are working on their own calendar, weather, and clock applications that are written against the Ubuntu SDK. They’ve even developed their own Sudoku and other games…

Red Hat Rolls FuseSource Middleware Into JBoss Stack

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ComputerWorld

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March 12, 2013

Expanding its stack of enterprise ready open source middleware, Red Hat has integrated key software from its acquisition of FuseSource last September.

Fedora Linux Looks To Improve Its Boot Experience

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Phoronix

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March 12, 2013

A proposal has been voiced for improving the boot experience of Fedora Linux…

Fedora Project’s Robyn Bergeron: The Linux Desktop Is Almost Ready for Its Close-Up

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LinuxInsider

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March 12, 2013

The Fedora Project is perhaps one of the hallmark Linux distributions. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, the commercial developer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat’s investment in the Fedora community is collaborative. As such, Fedora Linux releases often provide RHEL developers with a field test environment that incubates innovative open source software technologies. Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released in late 1994 as Red Hat Commercial Linux. It was the first Linux distribution to use the RPM Package Manager as its packaging format.

How Samsung Broke Away from the Android Pack

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CNET

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March 12, 2013

The fourth version of the hit Galaxy S smartphone will debut this week at Radio City Music Hall with fanfare usually reserved for the iPhone. What a difference two years make. [Read more]