<b>The VAR Guy:</b> "The company previously positioned itself as an open source IP PBX phone system provider. But going forward, Fonality is pitching itself as a leading provider of cloud-based phone systems and unified communications for small business."
In a bid to make its Bing search engine more social networking-oriented, Microsoft adds Facebook feeds and also shows off updated tools for Webmasters.
<b>Linux Magazine: </b>"The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 1.1, a backwards compatible update that boosts performance in the parallel programming standard. OpenCL is a free programming standard designed from the ground up to optimize coding in muliticore processors."
<b>FSF.org:</b> "Apple has removed GNU Go from the App Store, continuing their longstanding habit of preventing users from doing anything that Apple doesn't want them to do."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "Linux servers now represent 18.4 percent of all server revenue, up 4.3 points over the same quarter last year. Unix server revenue declined 29 percent from a year earlier."
<b>LinuxInsider:</b> "European privacy advocates have added their voices to complaints about Facebook's privacy changes, and they say certain ways Facebook treats data may even be illegal under European laws."
I admit it: I'm slightly jealous of Microsoft server administrators. You see, in the Linux world, we have the power to create crazily robust and creative systems, but we're often reinventing the wheel.
<b>Developer.com:</b> "By typical development conventions, PHP 5.3 only qualifies as a "point release." However, the features packed into this new version are easily the most significant PHP development enhancements since PHP 5.0 was released in 2004."
The environmental activist group is sounding an alarm about the carbon footprint created in the transition to cloud computing. It urges IT firms to opt for renewables when they open new data centers.
If you want to take workstation-class CAD or imaging applications on the road, you need one of two things: a U-Haul, or HP's surprising 14-inch laptop PC, which combines Core i7 power and Quadro FX graphics in an under-six-pound package.
If you want to take workstation-class CAD or imaging applications on the road, you need one of two things: a U-Haul, or HP's surprising 14-inch laptop PC, which combines Core i7 power and Quadro FX graphics in an under-six-pound package.
The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water. Where is Microsoft in the booming mobile market?
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum:</b> "In just a few years, data deduplication has gone from a technology with a lot of promise that only very large enterprises could afford to one that is nearly ubiquitous for making the most of backup and recovery."