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Is The Jailbreak Community Contaminated By Leeches?

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Blogger Alan Shimel says many open source developers feel that others in the open source community are parasites. Primarily they mean companies who take open source code, profit commercially from it, but don't give anything back to the community. Now, one of the leading members of the Apple jailbreak community is refusing to divulge his jailbreak techniques because he says the jailbreak community is "contaminated" by "leeches."

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    Open Source Matters

    Kylo TV Web Browser Open Sourced (Remote Control Not Included) by Rikki Endsley

    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.I decided to try it out on my Linux laptop, which is running the latest Ubuntu. Contrary to the news article I read, Kylo doesn't work with Linux yet, so I changed gears and installed it on my Mac and bought an...

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    Open Source Fact and Fiction

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    Patent craziness, Google+ mobile updates highlight today's Google news by Brad Reed

    There's a lot of news surrounding Google to digest today, so let's get started:The biggest piece of news from the tech world's perspective was that a jury unanimously ruled that Google did not infringe upon patents held by Oracle relating to its Java programming language.  This is significant because for the past several years seemingly everyone has been suing both Google and Android device manufacturers for alleged intellectual property infringements surrounding the Android mobile...

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    ownCloud 4 Open Source File Sync Solution Released by Rikki Endsley

    Community-supported ownCloud 3 rolled out in early 2012, and just a few months later, ownCloud 4 is packed with new features, including file versioning to allow users to roll back to previously saved versions, a new developer API, and the ability to view Open Document Format without downloading them.An experimental feature in ownCloud 4 allows mounting of external file systems, such as Dropbox, FTP, and Google Drive, so users can access sync and share tools in a single ownCloud interface.Frank...

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    The other day I witnessed a Twitter discussion between an analyst and two employees at two separate security companies. The conversation went something like this: Person 1: in order to satisfy the needs of the SMB and have effective security, vendors need to reduce both price and resources neededPerson 2: agreed but often times vendors take this to mean they can/should offer a product that doesn’t have all the features needed for effective securityPerson 1: this doesn’t have to be the case,...

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    PostgreSQL Administration for MySQL Admins by OpenLogic Wazi

    MySQL isn't the only mature and feature-rich open source database; rival PostgreSQL can be an equally good choice. And if you know how to manage MySQL, you can learn how to handle PostgreSQL fairly quickly.

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    Open Source Fact and Fiction

    Steve Hanna Of Juniper Networks And Trusted Computing Group On BYOD Standards by Alan Shimel

    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.  Steve is instrumental in defining open standards that allow many security and networking vendors to allow their...

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    Average U.S. smartphone user has 41 apps on their device by Brad Reed

    Nielsen has some interesting new data out today about Americans' smartphone usage.  The big takeaway: Americans love their mobile apps.How much do they love mobile apps, you ask?  For starters, the average number of apps on a typical smartphone has jumped from 32 to 41 over the past year, an increase of 28%.  Second, the average American smartphone user spends roughly 81% of their time using apps on their smartphone versus 19% of the time on the mobile web.  Last year, that...

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    The big question: Does Google really know how to make an Android device better than anyone else? by Brad Reed

    The Wall Street Journal today reports that Google is planning to release a slew of Nexus-branded devices from a host of different manufacturers. Google plans to give multiple mobile-device makers early access to new releases of Android and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter. That is a shift from Google’s previous practice, when it joined with with only one hardware maker at a time to produce “lead devices,” before releasing the software to...

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    The good news: The latest version of Chrome allows you to sync up tabs on your desktop PC with tabs on your smartphone and tablet.  The bad news: Chrome for Android is still in beta testing, meaning that it's only available on a limited number of devices.All the same, this seems like a pretty sweet little innovation.  As an information junkie, I often start reading a really cool article in the morning and then get interrupted by the need to drive to work (the tyranny!).  By the...

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