Below are the release notes for the latest version of OS for the WeTab v2.4.1 Version 2.4.1 (19/01/2012) Upgrade to kernel version 3.2 with support for more external devices Optimized power settings functionalities Increased graphics and video performance Improved G-Sensor rotation Increased WIFI and Bluetooth network stability General improvements on...
Little bit of news around Node.js today, Amazon has added support for Identity Federation, and Oracle customers might want to pay attention to a fundamental flaw that's been discovered in Oracle database systems. Node.js v0.6.8 – The Node.js team has released a new stable version, 0.6.8. This release updates V8...
U.S. advertisers spend nearly $40 billion a year for online advertisements, but 31% of their ads are never seen. That means $12.4 billion will be wasted on U.S. online ads this year. That's the average across all sites; on some sites, only 7% of the ads were "in-view," meaning 93%...
To abuse the cloud metaphor, there's a storm brewing over public and private clouds. Not surprisingly, providers of public clouds (who hope to see everybody move their computing to public clouds) are quick to dismiss private clouds. One of the best reads today is from the ActiveState blog, where Bart...
In a move to stay competitive in a cloud landscape that looked to be blowing it away, Microsoft this morning is making important strategic shifts that could advance its position in a two-front war against both VMware and Amazon. Today the company is making available a release candidate for its...
The OpenStack community is getting ready for a bug-squashing day, BitNami has Windows AMIs that qualify for Amazon's free usage tier and Christopher Miles has an interesting post on working with Hadoop, HBase and Clojure. All Your HBase Are Belong to Clojure – Miles goes into great detail on setting...
Today's links include some thoughts from Bruce Schneier on surveillance, the latest update from OpenStack on community work and a post from Neelie Kroes (vice president of the European Commission) about cloud computing and data protection reform. Also, an easy blackout plugin for WordPress for sites participating in the SOPA/PIPA...
Day one of CES 2012 and at the Intel booth they have the new Lenovo Medfield Reference Design Tablet. This is a prototype showing off Android ICS running on the new Intel Atom Z2460 processor but wouldn't this little beauty look good with Tizen running on it ?...
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World's premier Linux events bring global community of administrators, developers and vendors together in collaboration LinuxCon North America co-located in San Diego with Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference; Barcelona to host LinuxCon Europe 2012 Exclusive discounts available for early event and training registration SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, 2012...
Kathleen Ting has a preview of Apache Sqoop 2, it's getting easier to deploy Octopress on Heroku, and Todd Hoff over at the High Scalability Blog has a look at Peregrine, a possible challenger to Hadoop.Highlights of Sqoop2 – Apache Sqoop is a project for efficiently transferring bulk data between...
ExoPC are at CES 2012 showing off their mouth watering 1920x1080 32-inch 10 point touchscreen monitor / desk. This currently supports PCs but Mac support is being worked on. Expected shipping date is currently slotted in as being at the end of 2012 with expect price of around...
World's premier Linux events bring global community of administrators, developers and vendors together in collaboration LinuxCon North America co-located in San Diego with Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference; Barcelona to host LinuxCon Europe 2012 Exclusive discounts available for early event and training registration SAN FRANCISCO, January 12, 2012...
Amazon is offering direct connect more widely, Dell has gone green with its cloud and the folks over at CloudBees have some helpful tips on triggering builds in Jenkins from GitHub commits.Amazon is offering direct connect in more areas. Now you can create a dedicated network connection between your business...
Many of us would love to be trained to have more social skills in everyday life, whether at work or at home. Or perhaps we wish other people we know would receive that kind of training. But is socializing online something that people need to be trained how to do?...
Its all about CES and with that mood here is the Keynote Speech by Intel CEO Paul Otellini were he mentions the Intel Reference Smartphone that we did an article about yesterday:
Intel at CES have laid out that they have serious intentions for the SmartPhone game. They are currently showcasing a hardware reference design so that manufacturers can build their own Smartphone incorporating Intels Medfield chipset. The reference design is currently running Android (Gingerbread 2.3) on a Atom Z2460...
It's almost impossible to believe now, but when Microsoft premiered its Windows Azure service back in October 2008, there was genuine speculation over whether the company would try to muscle its way into the cloud the way it did with Internet Explorer during the war with Netscape. What was the...
Intel at CES have laid out that they have serious intentions for the SmartPhone game. They are currently showcasing a hardware reference design so that manufacturers can build their own Smartphone incorporating Intels Medfield chipset. The reference design is currently running Android (Gingerbread 2.3) on a Atom Z2460 processors, clocked...
What do developers want to see for HTML5 in 2012? It is an evolving standard and while 2011 was a great year for HTML5 innovation, there are still many aspects that could be implemented or upgraded. Leading HTML5 development studios Sencha and appMobi weigh in below on what each would...
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