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Sunday, 29th January 2012

Pentaho Opens Up Its Big Data Tools

Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has made freely available under open source all the big data capabilities in its Kettle v4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License Version 2.0. This is the same open source license that Hadoop and others use. We have covered Pentaho before here.

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Microsoft's Hyper-V Support Broken in OpenStack, Likely to Be Dropped from Next Release

Microsoft announced it had partnered with Cloud.com to support Hyper-V with OpenStack in October 2010. This was not long after the land-rush of companies clamoring to announce their support for OpenStack in the wake of its unveiling at OSCON 2010. It appears, though, that the folks in Redmond have lost interest in giving its customers support for…

Joe Brockmeier comments

Video Service Tout Claims It Boosts Users' Facebook, Twitter Followers

Tout got a big boost when Shaquille O'Neal announced his NBA retirement in one of the service's 15-second video clips. Before then, few people had heard of the service, which allows users to easily link the videos to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Prior to O'Neal's unsolicited endorsement, Tout, which just launched in April, was largely…

Dave Copeland comments

HP Cloud Services Goes Into Beta

HP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lot of promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intends its cloud to cover both public and hybrid uses. Initially, the beta is free of charge although you will need to provide a credit card number for authentication (you won't be charged anything while…

David Strom comments

Twitter's Censorship Policy: Three Unanswered Questions

In June of 2009, leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Chinese government blocked access by its citizens to Twitter, Flickr and a number of other US-based websites. Social media being already widespread throughout the country, perhaps the Chinese government feared the possibility of events like unfolded elsewhere…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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