Search giant and Small Business Administration forge partnership to deliver an array of online tools and training programs for small firms to thrive online.
Search giant and Small Business Administration forge partnership to deliver an array of online tools and training programs for small firms to thrive online.
Emery Fletcher has been exploring small-footprint Linux distributions like Damn Small Linux, SliTaz, and Puppy. Since even small mobile devices have lots of RAM and storage these days, and cloud apps are everywhere, are these small Linuxes still worthwhile?
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "It took me ages to learn bash redirection properly, and I still have to concentrate sometimes to keep my &s and my >s straight. Here's the lowdown in case you, too, have intermittent brain failure on this one."
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "Nils Grotnes emailed me about 20 minutes ago with some pretty cool news. Aquaria by Bit Blot ,Gish Published by Chronic Logic, Lugaru HD by Wolfire, and Penumbra Overture of course by Frictional Games have pledged to go open source."
<b>fewt@blog:~$ _:</b> "By now my launchpad, brainstorm, and Ubuntu forum accounts have been removed .. at my request. I have decided to completely unequivocally leave the Ubuntu community."
<b>Wired: </b>"TechRestore, an electronics repair shop, has taken apart the Incredible and then it put all back together. What's fascinating to watch in the video is how small and compact the components are and how well they pack into the circuit board."
If your Web site isn’t optimized for mobile devices, you could be losing out on potential customers and sales. It's time to get with the mobile marketing program.
If your Web site isn’t optimized for mobile devices, you could be losing out on potential customers and sales. It's time to get with the mobile marketing program.
<b>Symantec press release:</b> "In the current spam climate, this index shows that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."
<b>Datamation:</b> "FOSS is an abbreviation for Free and Open Source Software. In other words, FOSS is software whose source code is openly available. People can install and even modify FOSS as they please, so long as they follow a few basic requirements listed in the license."
<b>Ubuntu Geek:</b> "VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms."
<b>IT Pro:</b> "Wireless Linux group LiMo expects three major operators to offer handsets using its platform this year, to compete with news rivals Google and Apple, its executive director said."
<b>Webopedia: </b>"Cupcake was the codename used for the first major release of the open source mobile operating system, Android. The codename was used when the release was bumped to version 1.5."
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "AMD has formally released the "Magny-Cours" line of eight- and 12-core Opteron server processors, disclosing the speeds and feeds and promising performance-per-watt that beats Intel's newest Xeon."
<b>LinuxBSDos: </b>"One of the best features introduced in Sabayon 5.3, the latest upgrade to the Gentoo-based, multi-purpose Linux distribution is the installer."
As enterprises begin to understand and exploit the business value of social networking applications, they are increasingly relying on a cloud computing model to make it work.
At annual RSA security show, Big Blue unveils enterprise IT security suite that includes products to secure operations from application code all the way through deployment.
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "Take one part Intel's Moblin, mix with Nokia's Maemo, bake for three months in the Linux Foundation oven, and you get MeeGo. Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin has called this new embedded Linux, the open-source uber-platform for the next generation of computing devices:"
<b>Database Journal:</b> "According to its motto, the underlying premise behind the open source CouchDB NoSQL database is about helping developers "relax" -- chiefly by providing them with a simple, powerful database alternative."