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Google TV Updates with Voice Search, New PrimeTime Guide

Two years into its television project, Google executives say they are making the oft-criticized product much easier to use. [Read more]

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With 50M Users In Tow, OpenDNS Looks To Bring Enterprise Security Into the Mobile Era

Bring up the topic of “enterprise security platforms” around polite company, and you may be quickly shown the door. The subject can be boring, but the truth is that enterprise security writ large are critical, ideally making the Web a safer place for both businesses and consumers by policing malware, botnets, phishing and other malicious software.

Of course, today businesses big and small are moving to the cloud, adopting services like Dropbox, Box and Google Apps in droves. In turn, employees are increasingly going mobile, both in where they work and how they work, as they now carry multiple phones, view documents on their iPads, and collaborate on projects hosted on these services outside of the office. Yet, while workforces (enterprise included) are increasingly remote, mobile and nomadic, security services haven’t adapted to this change in user behavior. When employees go out on the road, for example, their network’s security doesn’t follow them.

So, today, OpenDNS is attempting to pick up the slack with the launch of a new product called Umbrella, which allows companies to extend their service and content browsing policies to employees while they’re on the go. 

 
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Does TOP500 Even Matter? Bill Kramer Rationalizes the Blue Waters No-Show

As covered here on insideHPC, one of the biggest surprises of the new TOP500 list was not about who topped the list, but the fact that NCSA decided that getting on with the business of real supercomputing was more important than beating their chest. In a candid blog post this week, NCSA’s Bill Kramer describes exactly why his team decided not to submit a LINPACK result for Blue Waters, a recently installed massive Cray supercomputer that would certainly rank among the fastest machines in the world in anyone’s book.

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Development Release: Slax 7.0 RC2

Tomáš Matějíček has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Slax 7.0, a minimalist Slackware-based live CD with KDE 4: “I’ve been mostly fixing and improving the RC 1 build of Slax. The boot installer script has been fixed and updated. 

 

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Samsung: We Don’t Intend to Negotiate with Apple

Samsung’s mobile chief ruled out a settlement to a Korean news service after HTC decided to make peace with Apple. [Read more]

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Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro

open source Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet program that is fast and feature complete. Much like its chief open source competitors OpenOffice and LibreOffice, its graphical user interface is nothing fancy. What it lacks in colorful design or exciting visual menu displays, however, it surpasses with its format flexibility and easy operation. It might seem counterproductive to use a spreadsheet application outside a business suite, but no real reason justifies not doing so.

 

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Search Google Play From Unity

Developers Rotating Canvas have developed a lens that allows you to search the Google Play Store right from the Unity desktop. Like other lenses, you just need to hit click on dash or tap the windows key and navigate to the lens t start searching. The lens shows three results and also has an option to view more results. When you click on the link, a web browser opens up taking you to the Google Play Store.

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Qt 5.0 Beta 2 Now Available

During this year’s European Qt Developer Days event in Berlin, the Qt developers released a second beta for version 5.0 of Qt, bundling Qt Creator 2.6 and finalising the list of modules and packages for Qt 5.0.

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Google Open Sources Android 4.2

Google has released factory images for Android 4.2 and has pushed its source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). On the Nexus 10 tablet, it includes the ability to create and use multiple user accounts on a single device.

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Canonical Releases Ad For Ubuntu For Android

A short 2 minute ad for Ubuntu for Android has been realesed but there is no information on when a Ubophone device will be released.

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