M-Saunders writes Linux Voice, the crowdfunded GNU/Linux magazine that Slashdot has covered previously , had two goals at its launch: to give 50% of its profits back to the community after one year, and release each issue’s contents under the Creative Commons after nine months. Well, it’s been nine months since issue 1, so the…
Day: November 18, 2014
IT Spending to Rise, Though Growth Remains Sluggish
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The outlook for 2015 is mostly positive, with innovations in mobility, business intelligence, and cloud computing, Computer Economics found. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Microsoft is considering open sourcing parts of Bing backend tech
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‘Open source’ and ‘Microsoft’ used to be like oil and water; the two would never be mixed. But today, Microsoft has shown that it is highly supportive of this community by open sourcing parts of its key products and allowing these platforms to run on its Azure infrastructure. Source: Tech
WebRTC Setup and Build
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In this whitepaper, we will be going through the steps necessary to build the WebRTC source code from Google in order to run their sample AppRTC/WebRTC application. WebRTC is an open source project initiated by Google* geared towards enabling web browsers with Real-Time Communication capabilities through the use of JavaScript APIs. Source: Tech
UPnP Forum Invites Organizations to use UPnP+ Certification
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18 November 2014: UPnP Forum, the global standards group responsible for the seamless connectivity of billions of home devices today launches its UPnP+ Certification level for improved device and open source implementations in new paradigms, including mobile connected computing, Cloud-based service delivery, Smartphone content sharing and the Internet of Things (IoT). With Gartner predicting the…
AliView: a fast and lightweight alignment viewer and editor for large datasets
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Summary: AliView is an alignment viewer and editor designed to meet the requirements of next-generation sequencing era phylogenetic datasets. AliView handles alignments of unlimited size in the formats most commonly used, i.e. FASTA, Phylip, Nexus, Clustal and MSF. Source: Tech
What To Make Of Hortonworks' IPO Filing
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Cloudera and MapR are Hortonworks main competitors, each of them have a different business model than Hortonworks and both of them add additional layers of revenue. Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and distributed processing of large amounts of data by using a network of computers. Source: Tech