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February 2012 Archives

Tuesday, 28th February 2012

SUSE Breaks With Tradition for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2

Service packs for enterprise Linux distributions are typically pretty conservative affairs that are only noteworthy for the bugs that they fix. SUSE is bucking that trend with the second service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, by adding new features and providing customers with the 3.0 Linux kernel released last year. SLES 11…

Enterprise Joe Brockmeier comments

Brightcove App Cloud HTML5 Development

Brightcove App Cloud HTML5 Development

Brightcove does not want you to think of it as a video hosting company. From the beginning, that was never the plan. Yet, Brightcove rode its cloud video-hosting platform to an initial public offering last week,with the company valued at about $392 million. Brightcove considers itself a "cloud content services" company and wants to be the go-to…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

RSA 2012: Security Engineers Seek Prophecy in Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin

"You can't always get what you want" is literally the theme of this year's RSA Security conference in San Francisco. "With increased speed and cunning, hackers are taking advantage of the openness of today's infrastructures," said EMC's executive vice president Art Coviello, Jr. And exacerbating the problem, he said, is the fact that despite…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

Everything Pinterest and Tumblr Users Need To Know About Copyright Law

It's hard to write a story or post about Pinterest and copyright law without at least one reader leaving a comment along the lines of "What about Tumblr?" Indeed, comparisons between the two sites are fairly obvious: while Tumblr is more of a blog platform and Pinterest is more of a link-sharing site, both are set up to allow users to easily share…

Dave Copeland comments

Monday, 27th February 2012

Did Yahoo Tip The Press To Force Facebook's Hand In Patent Dispute?

Yahoo is playing the press while trying to force Facebook into licensing between 10 and 20 of its patents. Yahoo is making fairly standard claims in Web tech circles: that a hotter, younger company is infringing on patents Yahoo registered years ago and now needs to cut the former Web behemoth in on some of the action. But how Yahoo is going about…

Social Dave Copeland comments

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