Open Source

Reddit IAmA this week to feature Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet 40 years ago this week, will get his turn to play social media rock star as the subject of a Reddit IAmA on Tuesday, May 21, at noon EDT.

By Bob Brown | 20 May, 2013 16:17

Tags: Metcalfe Ethernet 40, reddit, Ethernet 40th birthday, Reddit iama, reddit Ethernet, Metcalfe reddit iama, business management, LAN & WAN

Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto

With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp.

By James Niccolai | 19 May, 2013 19:01

Tags: open source, e-commerce, regulation, Bitcoin Foundation, software, government, internet

Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud.

By Brandon Butler | 17 May, 2013 14:32

Tags: Amazon Web Services, reddit, amazon.com, Cloud, cloud infrastructure, cloud computing, internet, Amazon cloud infrastructure, Amazon Cloud

Mozilla to Firefox: 'Browser, heal thyself'

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser.

By Gregg Keizer | 15 May, 2013 10:54

Tags: web apps, Firefox, applications, Microsoft, software, internet, mozilla, Facebook

Best case, Mozilla's Firefox for Windows 8 will ship in October

Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development this fall, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 May, 2013 15:11

Tags: Firefox, Google, Windows, software, operating systems, mobile apps, mozilla

Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops

Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week.

By Brandon Butler | 09 May, 2013 14:28

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Dell, Cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, ubuntu

Facebook to design an open source switch

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:57

Tags: Open Compute Alliance, networking hardware, open source, Networking, routers, software, switches, Facebook

Debian wheezes out Version 7

The latest version of Debian -- Version 7.0, codenamed "Wheezy" -- is now in stable release, bringing with it accessibility enhancements, a new version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and support for multiple hardware architectures.

By Jon Gold | 06 May, 2013 21:30

Tags: Linux, Debian OpenStack, software, operating systems, gnome, OpenStack, Debian Xen, debian, open-source

How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

Tags: unified communications, Configuration / maintenance, internet, Facebook OCP, Facebook, HP, Dell, OCP, Cloud, Web 2.0, software, Open Compute Project, collaboration, social media, Interop, Linux, Internet-based applications and services, open source, applications, Networking, hardware systems, operating systems, cloud computing, Data Center

Is Twitter broken?

Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2013 20:57

Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, reddit, LANs & Routers, applications, Networking, Web 2.0, software, twitter, collaboration, internet, social media

Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

By Joab Jackson | 01 May, 2013 20:44

Tags: open source, databases, applications, data mining, software, MapR, cloudera

Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

By Ellen Messmer | 30 April, 2013 18:02

Tags: open source, Linux, open source projects, security, open source security, software, Sonatype, operating systems

Sued Opera designer fingers Mozilla's 'Search Tabs' as root of $3.4M claim

The former Opera Software designer accused of leaking trade secrets to Mozilla denied the charges yesterday, but confirmed that the lawsuit takes aim at a search revamp he worked on while a consultant for the maker of Firefox.

By Gregg Keizer | 30 April, 2013 17:52

Tags: web apps, Apple, Firefox, opera software, Tumblr, legal, internet, mozilla

Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com

Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.

By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 14:08

Tags: unified communications, Outlook.com VoIP, Microsoft Outlook.com Skype, telecommunication, Networking, Windows, software, operating systems, Firefox, voice video calls Skype Outlook.com, skype, Microsoft, voip

Opera sues ex-employee for $3.4M over alleged trade secrets violation

Trond Werner Hansen, the designer of some of the Opera Web browser's signature interface features, has been sued by that company in Norway for 20 million kroner ($3.4 million).

By Jon Gold | 29 April, 2013 22:10

Tags: Firefox, browser lawsuit, Opera browser, browser wars, software, mozilla firefox, mozilla

Trisquel GNU/Linux flies the flag for software freedom

Trisquel is a 100 per cent 'free as in free speech' GNU/Linux distribution started by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez nine years ago.

By Rohan Pearce | 26 April, 2013 16:02

Tags: gnu, open source, Linux, software freedom

CIO at hospital caring for Boston Marathon bombing victims and suspect shares lessons learned

Dr. John Halamka, CIO at the hospital where Boston Marathon bombing patients and suspects have been treated over the past week, has shared in a blog post Tuesday lessons learned from an IT and security management perspective.

By Bob Brown | 23 April, 2013 19:21

Tags: reddit, remote secure access, risk management, Networking, John Halamka, infrastructure management, Boston Marathon bombing, DMC, Beth Israel bombing, business management, CIO, management

Why openness drives innovation

Figuring out the next big thing in technology is something a lot of us are tasked to do, and it becomes even more challenging when predicting what will succeed long term. But one attribute that stands out as giving a new technology a leg-up is using open technologies for a creative freedom to spur innovation.

By Lauren States, vice president, CTO, IBM Corporate Strategy | 23 April, 2013 17:56

Tags: cloud computing open standards, open source, Linux, open technology, crowdsourcing, software, operating systems, Cloud Standards Customer Council

SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to merge.

By Chris Kanaracus | 23 April, 2013 13:56

Tags: business issues, MariaDB, open source, databases, applications, SkySQL, Sun Microsystems, software, Oracle, Mergers and acquisitions

Using open source to build sustainable communities

A forthcoming documentary from Filament Features will feature the work of the Open Source Ecology project, which aims to produce a set of open source tools capable of building environmentally sustainable communities.

By Rohan Pearce | 23 April, 2013 11:17

Tags: open source, green

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