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Wednesday, 17th August 2011

Product Reviews

StumbleUpon's Explore Box Suggests New Topics

Serendipitous discovery engine StumbleUpon has just launched an Explore Box on its Web version, which allows users to find topics to explore by typing them in. StumbleUpon delivers a new website or video with one click of a button, and it uses a deep list of topic tags, or 'interests,' to keep track of the kinds of content users like. The best…

Jon Mitchell comments

Red Hat to Move Off of Windows with Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta

You would think that the name synonymous with the expansion of Linux into the enterprise would not be facing an issue of its own with migrating from Windows. But in its big push two years ago toward eventual parity with virtualization leader VMware, it acquired Qumranet, the maker of an open source hypervisor called KVM (Kernel-based Virtual…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Forrester Reports Security Market Volatility

A new study from research firm Forrester shows that consumer attitudes towards Internet security are significantly changing. Consumers are now more aware of cyber security and are taking more steps to protect themselves on the Web. At the same time, consumers are gravitating to a select group of security vendors with freeware products dominating…

Dan Rowinski comments

Tuesday, 16th August 2011

Android OEMs Violating Linux GPL?

Over the past week, there have been stirrings in the Android community about the Linux GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and whether or not original equipment manufacturers have violated the license, thus making them vulnerable to lawsuits from thousands of Linux users. The argument is that OEMs have broken the Linux license terms and so have…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Vid.ly, Yet Another Video Hosting Service, Launches Today

Encoding.com has been around for the past several years, and they have yet another turnkey video encoding service called quick catchingly, Vid.ly. The product, which has been in beta since February, was announced today and so far has had more than five million video views already.

David Strom comments

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