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Intel and Nokia open first joint research lab

More than 20 researchers and developers at Oulu University’s Centre for Internet Excellence are to work on creating new user interfaces for mobile devices

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Ubuntu 11.04 Developer Summit announced

Canonical’s Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be take place from the 25th to the 29th of October, 2010

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Inkscape 0.48 lined up and released

The open source scalable vector editor gets an update with multi-path editing and an improved text tool

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So you think you can open source

The seventh season of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance crowned its latest champion last week and, for the first time since the show debuted in 2005, I did not care. The first six seasons were a fantastically guilty pleasure—like a hip flask of whiskey at a dry wedding—that I hid from friends and colleagues. This year’s contest, however, proved beautifully boring. The choreography and dancing were still stellar but something was missing all season that I could not enunciate.
 
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Rails 3.0 approaches with RC2

The Ruby on Rails developers have issued the second release candidate for version 3.0 of their open source web framework, noting that the final version of Rails 3.0 should arrive “this week”

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Data Center Group Talks Tips on Cloud Migration

AFCOM, the 30-year-old data center association, offers its take on the cloud to help members assess and take advantage of the trend.

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Mobile 3D planned for MeeGo Linux

Intel and Nokia are reviving the spirit of Second Life with plans for 3D interfaces on mobile devices running their MeeGo Linux distro.…

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H.P.’s Bidding War With Dell Underscores the Demand for Data Storage

Data storage used to be one of the more mundane corners of the technology industry. Now it is where an increasing number of tech companies — and Wall Street — want to be.

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N550 – First mobile, dual-core Atom processor released

Good news for netbook users – netbooks just got faster and battery life just got better. Intel has released its first dual-core mobile Atom processor.

The new 1.5-GHz N550 processor is the first part to be based on the PineTrail architecture, which should result in greater battery life for devices.

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Introduction to PowerHA

PowerHA for AIX is the new name for HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing). HACMP is an application that makes system fault resilient and reduces downtime of applications. This article introduces PowerHA and provides a detailed explanation of how to configure a two node cluster. This document is very useful for understanding PowerHA and setting up a two node cluster.