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Kylo TV Web Browser Open Sourced (Remote Control Not Included)
Before the open source code release announcement, I'd never heard of Kylo, which is odd considering that Lifehacker named Kylo as one of the Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2010, and the web browser was named an International CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree. Read more
Open Source Adoption Lagging in Southeast Asia, Showing Signs of Hope
Writing this post from the visitors lounge at London's Heathrow Airport. I am on my way home from Singapore, where I taught a four-day security workshop. The attendees of the workshop came from all over the SE Asia region. We had folks from Vietnam and Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Singapore, of course, Malaysia, etc. The attendees ran the gamut from lower-level admins to higher-level VPs and director-level positions.The folks were there to learn and discuss security, but we had a chance to talk over lunch and dinner about software and technology in general in the area. Read more
Steve Hanna Of Juniper Networks And Trusted Computing Group On BYOD Standards
Just wanted to give a heads up that over on my "Open Network" podcast here on Network World I have posted my interview with Steve Hannah. Steve is someone I have known for years in the tech industry and really a remarkable fellow. He is a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks, but is also the co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) group. Read more
Is The Jailbreak Community Contaminated By Leeches?
I have spoken to many an open source developer who felt that many in the open source community were parasites. Primarily they mean companies who take open source code, profit commercially from it, but don't give anything back to the community. The facts are though that well over 90% (probably closer to 98%) of open source community members just consume open source product and contribute no code back at all. Read more
Buskers: Better Than Booth Babes
Years ago I worked for a large company that hired "booth babes" to "help" us run our booth at LinuxWorld in New York. These hired models sat on stools and gossiped with each other as I and another editor — also a woman — talked to attendees and gave out free copies of our magazine. What a waste of money those models turned out to be. Thankfully, I've never been stuck (wo)manning a booth with one since then. Maybe there's a time and place for models at expo halls, but I assure you that it's not at IT-related events. Read more
Database In The Cloud: Which Option Is Best?
The perfect storm of the cloud, mobility and big data has led to a blooming in the database market. After years and years of Oracle's dominance with Microsoft's SQL server carving out the Windows-only market and MySQL offering a long-awaited open source alternative, the database market is booming. Read more
Basho's Declaration Of Independence: All Nodes Are Created Equal
Just when you thought you knew who the players are in the NoSQL space you realize you left out a major one. I felt that way after speaking with Bobby Patrick, CMO of Basho, the makers of the open source Riak database. Read more
Now Yahoo Declares Patent War On Open Source
Yahoo's decision to recapture its lost profit potential by asserting its rights under its patent portfolio has already drawn a lot of criticism in tech circles. Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has declared war on Facebook and others claiming "they own the web" by virtue of their large portfolio of patents. But now it seems they are going to claim patent rights over open source technologies as well. Read more
Is Yahoo! The Bad Luck Schleprock Of The Internet?
In an article I wrote last week about Microsoft pulling a cute one in the buying, selling and use of AOL patents, I mentioned that Yahoo was becoming the "Bad Luck Schleprock" of the Internet. It seems that Yahoo just can't get out of its own way anymore. Read more
How Real Is The Malware Threat To Android?
Many of us have heard that our smartphones and tablets already are or soon will be the targets of attack by the malware industry (yes it is an industry). However, most of you probably don't have any security software running on your devices. Why is that? Read more
Tizen Releases Version 1.0, Who Cares?
The 1.0 release of a hot new open source, Linux-based, mobile OS was just announced the other day. Lining up behind this new mobile OS are some well known companies like Intel, Samsung, Orange, Telefonica, Huawei, NTT Docomo, Vodofone, Panasonic and The Linux Foundation, among others. So how come no one seems to care? Read more
Symantec Threat Report For 2011 Shows Threat Landscape Is Still Rich
It was another "exciting" year in security. Symantec released its annual Threat Report. I had a chance to speak with the folks at Symantec and get a brief on the report. Read more
What to Expect at LinuxFest Northwest
John Blanford is just one of the many people who help organize LinuxFest Northwest, an annual open source event held in Bellingham, Washington. In this interview, Blanford offers a preview of what to expect at this weekend's LFNW event.
What's new this year at LFNW? Read more
Cassandra Stays Ahead Of The NoSQL Pack
The NoSQL market continues to red hot with everyone throwing their hat into the ring. One of the stalwarts of the segment, Apache's Cassandra project just released the 1.1 version of the NoSQL database and it has significant new features among which are improved caching, a revised query language and better Hadoop integration. Read more
DARPA building test bed for virtual satellite clusters
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will next month detail what technology they need to build a cluster of 4 wirelessly-interconnected satellites for a 6-month demonstration mission to launch in early to in mid-2015. Read more
Miso Project Offers Open Source Tools for Data Visualization
In a blog post on The Guardian site last week, developer Alex Graul explained that part one of the Miso project is a JavaScript library called Dataset: Read more
The Cloud Orchestration Layer With Dave Jilk of Standing Cloud
With all of the talk around competing cloud standards, integrations and platforms, one can be excused for confusing some or all of the various players. Will one of these standards win out and dominate the rest? It would make life easier for some, but as my guest on today's podcast, Dave Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud says, that is often not the case. Read more
Should Fedora abandon release names?
Fedora has a long history of release names. Some have been serious (Verne, Goddard, Cambridge), while others have been a little less so (Werewolf, Moonshine, Zod). Perhaps the silliest of them yet, Fedora 17 will be "Beefy Miracle," a release name that's been floating around for quite some time. Apparently, some consider Beefy Miracle to be offensive, because it refers to food made with beef. Given the complexity of selecting a "safe" release name, should Fedora drop names altogether? Read more
I Rooted My Touchpad And Installed Android - Why?
As readers of my blog know, I have been a WebOS Touchpad user since HP put the tablets on fire sale. I bought 4 of them, one for each member of my family for less than it would have cost for one iPad. Read more
Is Apple's Security Up To Open Source Standards?
Just a couple of weeks ago everyone was writing about the amount of vulnerable open source code being used by enterprises. For years we have all heard how insecure Windows is. Adobe has been the butt of jokes for their seemingly endless string of vulnerabilities. Read more
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