Canonical overhauls its Ubuntu Linux OS support services with the new Advantage solution, which offers legal indemnification, support and management services.
May's "Patch Tuesday" drop will be relatively painless, with only two "critical" patches to deal with. But why isn't last week's SharePoint flaw being addressed?
Server Snapshot: In the past year, Lenovo launched its second generation of ThinkServers, equipped with more memory and storage capacity, the latest Intel processors, and virtualization capabilities. Yet the company remains in the "other" category in the various server measurement surveys.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments."
Want to sell more products? Of course you do. Adding search engine optimized video to your e-commerce site can raise both your Google ranking and your bottom line.
At Mobile World Congress, Verizon Wireless and mobile VoIP leader Skype announce they've teamed up on a mobile application for smartphones that will be available in March.
Server Snapshot: In the past year, Lenovo launched its second generation of ThinkServers, equipped with more memory and storage capacity, the latest Intel processors, and virtualization capabilities. Yet the company remains in the "other" category in the various server measurement surveys.
Latest security vendor study finds that do-it-yourself malware kits are popping up everywhere online and bringing even more amateur hackers into the fold.
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "In this article, learn how to detect which capabilities are present and how to take advantage of those features in your application. Explore powerful HTML 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation, embedded databases, and embedded video."
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 17 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2010, but smartphones greatly outpaced the overall mobile market, up 48.7 percent year-over-year, and it was Apple and Google that led the way."
<b>LXer:</b> "Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet."
<b>Click:</b> "I put a lot of stock on the ability to do an in-place upgrade of my Linux/Unix desktops. And regarding upgrades from one distribution to another, Debian is supposedly one of the best."
<b>Database Journal:</b> "Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL."
Global software piracy continued virtually unabated in 2009, costing software developers an estimated $51 billion, according to a survey by the Business Software Alliance.
<b>Ubuntu Geek:</b> "Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution."
Having already sold an astounding million units domestically, analysts estimate that Apple will sell a 8.13 million iPads worldwide by the end of this year.