The Wedge Mobile Keyboard, Wedge Touch Mouse and Sculpt Touch Mouse have one thing in common — they’re all designed for Windows 8.
Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit
Bits Blog: The China-U.S. Smartphone Gap Grows Larger
In China, smartphones are poised to become even more widespread than they are in the United States. The reason: a host of cheaper phones running on Android.
Read more at New York Times
ownCloud Offers Three-Hours Test Drive To Business Customers
ownCloud has announced deal with Standing Cloud to offer a rapid-deploy cloud file sync and share service. The ‘deal’ between ownCloud and Standing Cloud makes it easier for businesses to deploy ownCloud.
Read more at Muktware
Hipsters Hacking on PostgreSQL
Relational cred from SoMa to Shoreditch
Open … and Shut With the rise of NoSQL, it’s easy to assume that old-school relational databases are simply living out their dinosaur dreams for legacy applications. But a funny thing happened on the way to the SQL cemetery: PostgreSQL became cool again. Yes, PostegreSQL.…
Read more at The Register
LinuxCon Live Blog: SUSE, Red Hat and Author Phil McKinney
Follow our live coverage of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes on Thursday afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m. Pacific. Michael Miller of SUSE will start with a keynote on service oriented clouds.
4:50 p.m. is Tim Burke of Red Hat on “Enterprise Linux Success Factors.”
And at 5:10 p.m. former HP executive and author Phil McKinney will speak on the nature of innovation.
Quotes from the Kernel Panel at LinuxCon in San Diego
A highlight of yesterday’s excellent LinuxCon and CloudOpen conference was definitely the kernel panel featuring Sarah Sharp, Ted Ts’o, Greg K-H, Linus Torvalds and moderator James Bottomley. Some quotes:
Sarah: “There are misconceptions about the kernel community. Younger people don’t see linux as sexy, but perhaps Android makes it more of interest. Some people have the misconception that we yell all the time. That depends on what mailing list you are on.”
Greg: “When I started at the Linux Foundation, Jim told me there was one rule: you have to shower by 11 a.m.”
James: “Since Twitter joined the Linux Foundation, I decided to join Twitter. I got 100 new friends and precisely four questions.”
Ted: “Linux works on everything from wristwatches to mainframes. At the beginning, I had no conception that it would be used on cellphones. Did we even have cell phones back then?”
Linus: “What would happen if I get hit by a bus? I won’t care.”
James: “Email and IRC are our forms of social networking.”
Linus: “I have not written my own code in five years.”
Ted: “We are much less likely to blame each other if we’ve hoisted a beer over the bar. That helps us when we exchange emails.”
Linus: “ARM has gone from a constant headache every merge window to an outstanding Linux citizen.”
Sarah: [Little known fact] “I like to automate my garden watering system with Arduino.”
Linus: “We’ll probably do version 4.0 in 3 years or so.”
Intel Hopes to Revolutionize the Way You Charge Your Mobile Devices
The company will team with IDT to add wireless charging capabilities to a reference chipset in 2013 that could eventually let you recharge your cell phone cable-free from an Ultrabook or Intel-powered desktop.
Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit
{VIDEO} Live from LinuxCon/CloudOpen: OpenStack’s Jonathan Bryce
Hosting an event with so many talented people gives us a unique opportunity to steal a few minutes with members of the community who are working on the technologies that will form the future of cloud computing.
Today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen, we sat down with Jonathan Bryce of OpenStack. OpenStack has certainly received a lot of attention lately and is one of the projects everyone in the industry is watching very closely. And, one in which a lot of companies are investing and participating. Just this week, SUSE announced its OpenStack-based Enterprise Private Cloud Solution, for example.
Here we share a short video chat with Jonathan about the project and what he thinks the industry and community should take away from 2012 so far (hint: networking).