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  Google Reed-er

  RIM's PlayBook offers a textbook lesson in how a company can debacle itself by Brad Reed

  Well, I downloaded BlackBerry OS 2.0 onto my PlayBook this morning and I have to say: The latest update has only reinforced my belief that the PlayBook has been a case study in how a company can utterly debacle itself by losing focus on its core strengths.Don't get me wrong, the assorted upgrades that Research in Motion has pushed out for the PlayBook over the past year have made some marked improvements in the device.  One of the updates pushed out last summer, for instance, made it...

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  Open Source Matters

  Apache Announces Apache HTTP Server v2.4 by Rikki Endsley

  "This release delivers a host of evolutionary enhancements throughout the server that our users, administrators, and developers will welcome," Eric Covener, Vice President of the Apache HTTP Server Project, says in the announcement. "We've added many new modules in this release, as well as broadened the capability and flexibility of existing features."The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating the 17th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server, which the organization says powers almost...

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  Open Source Matters

  4 Online Resources to Kickstart Coding by Rikki Endsley

  This weekend, I heard the six words every mother longs to hear from her teenage daughter: I want to learn computer programming. Well, maybe every mom doesn't look forward to hearing those words like I have, and for that matter, I didn't actually hear those words. Instead, my daughter conveyed her coding curiosity to me via a message on my Facebook account.My daughter doesn't remember ever running Windows on a home computer. She's had Linux on her laptops. First, she ran Xubuntu on her iBook...

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  Open Minded

  Three Views on Creating Open Source Developer Communities by Stephen Walli

  I recently attended a great little conference about the craft of software development and where it’s going. It was called Monki Gras, and it was run by the fine analysts at Redmonk. It was held in London, UK. Three talks provided three great perspectives on the care and feeding of a developer community:Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) talked about making everything relentlessly easier to attract new collaborators based on his experiences in the Jenkins community.Dave Neary (@nearyd) of Gnome...

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  Open Source Fact and Fiction

  How Much Do You Really Know About Network Virtualization, SDN and OpenFlow? by Alan Shimel

  Most of you reading this have heard of OpenFlow and some of the recent announcements regarding it. HP announced a whole new lineup of network solutions that takes advantage of this exciting new software standard that promises to let you control and program your network like you would your computer. Some call this network virtualization capability software defined networking or SDN. There is much more to SDN though then OpenFlow. Network protocols you already use like SNMP for instance is an...

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  Open Source Fact and Fiction

  DotNetNuke Launches Re-branded, Re-energized 3rd Party Marketplace by Alan Shimel

  DotNetNuke the leading open source CMS for the .Net platform today announced the relaunching and re-branding of their 3rd party marketplace formerly called Snowcovered. The new store has over 10,000 add ons for DotNetNuke built websites by a wide variety of developers.  This represents the final integration of the Snowcovered aquisition by DotNetNuke back in 2009.In addition to the number of applications, the new store sports a number of new features making it easier for both customers to...

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  Open Source Fact and Fiction

  Ruh Roh, Now The Bad Guys Are Using Open Source Too by Alan Shimel

  What is good for the goose, is good for the gander, right?  Open source has been so successful in giving us software like Linux, Apache, Hadoop, etc., why wouldn't the open source method work with other types of software?  Probably no one expected that the criminals behind vast malware trojans would adopt open source methods to make their malware more dangerous, but they have.  According to this report from Seculert Research, the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan...

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  Google Reed-er

  More Google Wallet follies by Brad Reed

  Well, well, well!  It looks as though Google Wallet users who don't root their Android phones have something to worry about after all!  And when you read about the details of this particular flaw, you will slap your head because it's a major bone-headed error on Google's part.  Go read The Smartphone Champ for the scoop: All a person who wants to access your Google Wallet has to do is go into the application settings menu and clear the data for the Google Wallet app....

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  Google Reed-er

  Google to users: "Hey dummies! Don't root your Android phone and expect Google Wallet to be safe!" by Brad Reed

  So website categorization company zvelo caused a wee bit of a stir today when it exposed a potential security vulnerability in Google's near field communications (NFC)-enabled Google Wallet mobile payment platform.  You can see a video of their efforts below:To sum up: zvelo created an applciation that's capable of retrieving your Google Wallet PIN from your device, meaning that if someone were to steal your phone and use the application, they could use Google Wallet to go on a spending...

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  Google Reed-er

  My favorite Android browser is... something you may not have heard of! by Brad Reed

  So as you've likely seen, Google is finally releasing a mobile version of Chrome for Android, albeit on a very limited basis.  This is good news for a lot of reasons, the chief being that the default Android browser is pretty boring and nowhere near up to Chrome's standards.  The folks at Opera have predictably been all like, "Uh-UH!  You don't need no Chrome browser to have a first-rate browsing experience on Android!  We've been there for years!"But I've actually found a...

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