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The first killer app was VisiCalc . This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3 , and it would change the world. It became the PC’s killer app, and the world would never be the same.
On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3 , along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3’s day is done.
Say goodbye to Lotus 1-2-3. It’s day is finally done. (Image: Wikimedia) Far...
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The bar was set high for the annual Google I/O Developer’s Conference in San Francisco following a whole series of product announcements and surprises in 2012, and although no one jumped out of a plane wearing Google Glass this year, we were treated to some cool new products.
The keynote was packed with announcements of enhancements to Google services. For example, Google Maps now shows clouds hovering over the world in real time and displays how Earth looks in the Milky Way as the sun sets. Google+ has 41 new features. The company announced impressive stats about the popularity of its applications, and there was even a rare Q&A session with Google CEO Larry Page. However, we didn’t see a new Android tablet launch, an operating system update or more details...
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Google Makes Email More Interactive With Customizable Gmail Action Buttons - techcrunch.com 00:39 18/05/2013
Google today announced a small but cool update to Gmail. For a number of email, Google will now show action buttons next to email in your inbox that let you take a small set of actions without even opening the message. Currently, this list of actions is limited to RSVPing to calendar invitations and seeing your flight status from flight confirmation. The cool thing about this, however, is that it’s open to developers, who can now use the schema.org markup language to add their own actions to Gmail messages.
Google says developer could, for example , be used for confirmation emails when somebody registers to a site, or developers could present magazine subscribers with a one-click action to renew their subscription, review a product, movies, restaurants or services....
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Now that the fog of hype is starting to lift from the Moscone Center where Google rolled out its promised Amazon cloud killer , don’t expect the folks up in Seattle to stand still. As Amazon Web Services has made clear over the past 7 years, inaction is not an option.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and CEO Jeff Bezos on stage at AWS: Reinvent
Here are a few things AWS (which after all, remains the cloud to beat) could do to shore up its defenses as GCE , Windows Azure and soon VMware’s AWS competitor (to be re-announced May 21) come online.
1: Get more granular in pricing
One headline item Wednesday was Google’s decision to rent cloud instances by the minute instead of by the hour (well, you have to buy a minimum of 10 minutes with incremental...
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AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King? — Tech News and Analysis - gigaom.com 02:50 18/05/2013
It’s 2013, and yet two big questions still dominate the discussion any time a sufficiently large number of cloud computing types gather in the same room: How many players can the market support, and are cloud resources a commodity?
The topic arose at the clouderati-filled Cloud 2020 meetup in Las Vegas last week (where someone suggested we’ll have a cloud duopoly of Amazon Web Services and Google) and it’s back in the public eye again this week with the general availability of Google Compute Engine . I think we might get an idea how the cloud computing market will play out by looking at the fast-food industry.
The analogy goes like this: Fast food restaurants offer their consumers essentially the same things as public clouds offer their customers –...
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Everyone’s now aware of 3D printing — they’ve read about it in the papers, on blogs or seen it on TV. The mentality now seems to be that, in the future, we’ll be able to download our products or make them ourselves with CAD programs, apps and 3D scanners, then just print them out, either at home, or in localised print shops. Which in turn will supposedly decentralize manufacturing, bringing it back to the West. But like the cupcake, Daft Punk’s latest album, or goji berries, 3D printing is severely overhyped — and I should know, because it’s what I do for a living.
All day, every day, I operate machines and speak to both the public and the industries about what their requirements are. In the last two years, I’ve made over 5,000 models and answered...
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IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio FAQ
May 16th, 2013 by yole
We’ve received a large number of questions related to yesterday’s announcement of Android Studio , and we’ve decided to compile the answers in a FAQ post.
Where do I get Android Studio?
Android Studio is available for download at the developer.android.com site.
Is Android Studio a fork of IntelliJ IDEA?
No. Android Studio and the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA are built from the same code, and all of the changes in Android Studio are, and will continue to be, available in IntelliJ IDEA releases.
When can I get the Android Studio features in...
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Google likes to use the word “beautiful” a lot when describing its own products. That would be grating if it weren’t for one fact: more and more, the company is building beautiful stuff. And I’m not sure if it’s ever built anything more beautiful than the new version of its Google+ social network which debuted on Wednesday during the Google I/O keynote .
The service, which was already pretty darn slick, is now among the most attractive and engaging web apps I’ve ever seen. Streams of activity are now laid out as one, two or three columns of tiles, depending on available screen real estate, with some oversized photos spanning the whole width. (Judging from my stream, some Google+...
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That’s the inflammatory allegation that a UK-based security blog made in a post earlier today:
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
That’s a pretty dramatic conclusion, based on very thin evidence.
Heise Security, the German branch of the same publishing company, received a tip from a reader alleging that he had “observed some unusual traffic” following an IM session over...
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For years, the internet provided users with static clumps of information stored and refreshed in databases on the back end. But as interactive games, animations and fancy scrolling have become popular, graphics have become fancier and screens richer. Throughout this evolution, hardware components on users’ devices have gotten more capable, but now Google seems to think the GPU is the best tool for the internet of tomorrow.
At a talk at the Google I/O conference on Thursday, Googlers Colt McAnlis (pictured), a developer advocate working on Chrome games and performance, and Grace Kloba, the technical lead on Chrome for Android, gave developers some tips for making better use of the GPU. Doing some of these things can help websites display their graphics as soon as...
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Larry Page Lays Out His Vision For The Future Of Google And Technology - www.businessinsider.com 00:29 16/05/2013
At Google ’s developer conference in San Francisco today, Google CEO Larry Page gave a 10 minutes speech laying out his vision for the future of Google and technology.
Here are some quotes from the speech:
“Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.”
“We’re really only at 1% of what’s possible, and maybe even less than that…we’re still moving slow.”
“We should be building great things that don’t exist.”
“Being negative is not how we make progress.”
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Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged Rollout | TechCrunch - techcrunch.com 22:59 15/05/2013
Today, during Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a group of tools for app developers, including a new developer suite called Android Studio. It’s an IDE based on IntelliJ .
This was a popular announcement, as the crowd “ooh’d” and “ahh’d” as screenshots were shown on stage.
This tool has more options for Android Development, making the process faster and more productive. A “live layout” was shown that renders your app as you’re editing in realtime.
Additionally, you can switch over to different layouts and screen sizes, such as 3.7 inch phone and 10-inch tablet. The team noted that this might be useful for internationalization, allowing you to quickly see what things look like without having to package up...
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Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With New Pricing And Data Tools To Compete With AWS - techcrunch.com 20:42 15/05/2013
Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available , marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its pay-as-you-go pricing.
The service is now open to any developer or business. In its post announcing the news, Google revealed a bit about new pricing, instance types and other features:
Sub-hour billing charges for instances in one-minute increments with a 10-minute minimum, so you don’t pay for compute minutes that you don’t use.
Shared-core instances provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads.
Advanced Routing features help you create gateways and VPN servers and enable you to build applications that span your local network and...
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Why SysAdmin’s Can’t Code
Most systems administrators are quick, perhaps too quick, to tell you “I’m not a coder.” Oddly, this admission normally comes after boasting about how many programming languages they know or have used. Why is this? Can this be changed? Here is my 5 step plan on how any SA can become an honest to goodness programmer.
Step 1: Find a problem you care about solving, for yourself
SysAdmin’s don’t actually use tools, they study them. The point isn’t to solve a problem but rather to know how to solve a problem if the need ever arises. SA’s are filling their tool chests full of handy hints and useful solutions for nearly any problem that can be encountered. Whats more, this is a subconscious tendency…. they...
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It doesn’t have a cool name like Cassandra, Voldemort or MongoDB, but Google is offering up a non-relational database called Google Cloud Datastore . Like almost everything the company has done since announcing its Compute Engine service at last year’s IO conference — including the rest of the features it announced on Wednesday — Cloud Datastore looks like a direct shot at current cloud champion Amazon Web Services.
AWS has a managed NoSQL database service called DynamoDB that’s replicated across three availability zones to ensure its stays up. Google’s Cloud Datastore sounds eerily similar, according to the product’s website (although Google calls its product “NoSQL-like). It’s fully managed, built for speed and scale and is replicated across...
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Правительство США заблокировало распространение чертежей пистолета, который можно распечатать на 3D-принтере / Хабрахабр - habrahabr.ru 13:44 11/05/2013
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Правительство США заблокировало распространение чертежей пистолета, который можно распечатать на 3D-принтере
Чертежи пистолета Liberator — первого в мире полностью пластикового огнестрельного оружия, все детали которого можно распечатать на 3D-принтере, опубликованные на сайте...
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PayPal wants to get rid of passwords in favor of biometric security - www.slashgear.com 22:07 10/05/2013
Craig Lloyd , May 10th 2013
While passwords are the way of the land on the internet, PayPal’s chief information security officer Michael Barrett says that passwords and PINs are obsolete and we need a new standard for security on computers and the internet. Barrett thinks that the next step is fingerprint scanners, which he believes will debut on smartphones at some point this year.
Speaking at the Interop IT conference, Barrett was quite positive that passwords will die sometime this year, even going as far as putting an image of a tombstone up on the screen that gave an “R.I.P.”...
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Boston drops Microsoft, switches 20,000 city employees to Google Apps - 9to5google.com 17:29 10/05/2013
Boston drops Microsoft, switches 20,000 city employees to Google Apps
Google has been signing up a lot of Google Apps for Government customers over the last year, including Colorado and the US Naval Academy , and today The Boston Globe reports that Boston is soon making the switch from Microsoft to a Google Apps environment for city employees.
As noted in the report, Boston was previously relying on Microsoft’s Exchange for much of its tasks and making the switch to Google will save the city around $280,000 a year:
It’s not just the gee whiz factor: It’s also a matter of money. It will cost Boston around $800,000 to move over to Gmail, Google Docs for word processing, and Google’s cloud service for storing documents. But by dropping...
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Marissa Mayer has previously noted her disappointment in Yahoo’s Web search partnership with Microsoft and now reportedly wants to get out of the deal altogether.
The Web giant’s chief executive has been trying to find a way to escape the foundering arrangement but has so far been unsuccessful, a person familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal . Mayer has been looking to cancel the deal since leaving Google to take over Yahoo last summer, the Journal reported.
The two companies entered into a 10-year search partnership in 2010 in which Microsoft would power Yahoo search and Yahoo would become the sales force for Microsoft’s premium properties. However, the relationship hasn’t yielded the revenue-per-search guaranteed by the...
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Will the last person to leave BMC and Dell please turn out the lights - pro.gigaom.com 18:06 6/05/2013
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Will the last person to leave BMC and Dell please turn out the lights
RIP Dell , and now BMC Software . Both companies were born in Texas in the 1980s and died in 2013. Cause of death: crushed by the public markets. Dell and BMC passed away after a long battle to reinvent themselves in the era of cloud computing and mobile technology. Companies without the legacy baggage they so desperately tried to forget survive them. Memorial service scheduled for whenever the private equity guys show up. No flowers.
Writing an obituary for these two once formidable technology giants seemed unthinkable only a few...
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Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware - arstechnica.com 21:18 8/05/2013
Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco.
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Two years ago, Facebook set out to change the server and storage industries by creating freely available hardware designs that gave customers more flexibility than those on offer from the HPs and Dells of the world.
Now, Facebook aims to knock Cisco and the other top network vendors down a peg by leading a nearly identical project for switches. Facebook is leading this disruption of the data center hardware industry through the Open Compute Project , which takes the open source approach typically applied to software such as Linux and aims it at hardware.
Thus far, the project had worked on reference...
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Over the past year-and-a-half while developing Handle, our entire company was in a race to zero. Inbox zero, to be precise. We set out to create a product that would allow us to leave work with zero emails in our inboxes and, so the thinking went, would lead to lives of zero stress (or at least until the next morning). We wanted to go home for dinner with friends and families and be fully present, in both body and mind. Wouldn’t that be amazing, transformative – invaluable, even?
Yes. So would alchemy, but neither exist. Inbox Zero, we discovered, is a mirage. My team and I learned a lot in the process about what contributes to real productivity gains. They informed our decisions about product design but they aren’t tied to any specific technology choice: We think...
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If you want to know the most in-demand tech skills , that info is readily available. Want to learn the programming skills most coveted by employers ? Done. But what are the skills and specialties that no one wants any more? What core competencies raise red flags instead of call backs?
(See also the Top 7 Most In Demand Tech Skills For 2013 and 15 Programming Skills Most Coveted By Employers .)
A survey of 1,100 tech-hiring professionals by Dice, a job firm for tech professionals, offers some insight. Combining the Dice survey and other research, including an off-the-record conversation with an engineering VP who participates in hiring decisions, here are some of the outdated tech skills and withering...
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After a decade of looking for the “year of the Linux desktop”, many Linux columnists have given up. Some say it isn’t coming, while others claim that Linux has simply failed on the desktop. If we responded to everyone who has ever criticised the Linux desktop, we wouldn’t get any work done. But Miguel de Icaza isn’t just anybody. He’s well respected in the open source community as the founding developer of one of the two main Linux desktop environments, the Gnome desktop. To our utter amazement, even he now thinks the Linux desktop is dead! In a recent post on his personal blog, Icaza shares his reasons why Linux couldn’t pitch itself as a viable consumer desktop operating system. His comments are a follow-up to a Wired article...
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According to security researcher @TibitXimer (A.K.A. Dylan) his Skype account was stolen six times, and now claims all Skype user accounts are vulnerable to the same fate due to Skype’s flimsy account recovery practices - which are especially thin, as he discovered the hard way, when contacting customer service.
When he contacted Skype support, reps didn’t appear to acknowledge that the issue was immediate… and repeating.
Perhaps that is because his account had been hijacked through basic social engineering techniques and not hacked - as then he learned that the problem was with contacting customer service itself.
@ skypesupport my skype was given away to over 6 people in one day due to them just...
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iTunes is 10 years old.
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Apple on Wednesday started celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its iTunes store.
When users head to the
iTunes Store, they’ll find a new feature called “A Decade of iTunes.” The reason? Simple: on April 28, Apple will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iTunes store.
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The feature allows users to browse a timeline of stories and the events that got iTunes to its place today....
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Amazon In Your Living Room: Company Reportedly Launching Its Own TV Set-Top Box This Fall - techcrunch.com 00:08 25/04/2013
According to a report from Bloomberg , e-commerce behemoth Amazon is preparing to launch a set-top box this fall, in hopes that you’ll consume all of your content through its spin on the now-common device. The company is already working hard to push its Kindle line to consumers, and this box would be for people who don’t want to deal with the fanciness of Apple products, the gaming nature of Microsoft’s XBox, the half-baked Google TV or the little engine that could, Roku.
Yes, this is a crowded market, but Amazon has something that these other companies don’t have, which is warehouses full of things to sell to people while they watch TV. I imagine that you’ll be able to shop as you would online or on your mobile device, right on your TV set. That means that the temptation...
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Developers gain root access on Google Glass, not yet sure what to do with it - www.engadget.com 03:36 27/04/2013
Access to Google’s Glass headsets is still limited to a lucky few , but that’s more than enough to include several curious coders. Some have had success identifying the hardware contained within , but others are focusing on the software. Cydia founder Jay Freeman posted the above image on Twitter this afternoon to show that he had gained root access on his unit, telling Forbes he relied upon a well-known Android 4.0.4 exploit to take control of its OS. The bad news? He hasn’t been able to use it much yet, since the Explorer edition isn’t quite ready for prescription glasses wearers . For now, the question of whether the same technique will work on eventual retail versions remains unanswered, as well as...
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Apple's WWDC 2013 kicks off June 10th with new versions of iOS and OS X - www.theverge.com 04:23 25/04/2013
Just a day after it announced its second-quarter earnings , Apple has finally published the schedule for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commencing on June 10th and running through June 14th at the Moscone West in San Francisco. This year, the company isn’t being shy about its plans, with SVP Phil Schiller promising that developers will be seeing brand new versions of both iOS and OS X. “Our developers have had the most prolific and profitable year ever, and we’re excited to show them the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps. We can’t wait to get new versions of iOS and OS X into their hands at WWDC,” he said in a press release.
Apple has also pre-announced...
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Soluto has ranked a few different brands of Windows laptops based on their performance against trouble and crashes, and here’s a fun twist: Apple topped the heap. That’s right, on a list of laptops that included Acer and Dell, an Apple MacBook Pro running Windows via Bootcamp got Soluto’s best rating, the lowest score based on “a combination of crashes, hangs, BSoDs, boot and background processes.”
Soluto says the reason Apple scored so well is probably because this was a “clean” Windows installation, which means that it didn’t have any of the crapware that PC manufacturers usually have to install on their sold devices to try and turn a profit (buying a computer with something installed on it that you...
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Google isn’t backing down on its social network, Google+. Instead the search giant is ramping up integration with other services. Now, if you write a blog or regularly comment on one using Blogger, you can comment using Google+.
Bloggers can turn the feature on in the Blogger Dashboard and immediately see if people are discussing their blog entries on Google+. If you’re inspiring controversy elsewhere on Google+, that conversation will appear directly on your blog.
Even if you don’t run a blog, the new Google+ comments will be useful. You can post comments now that only your Google+ circles can see, if you’re so inclined. You can also choose to only view comments posted by people in your circles.
Google+ users...
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Netflix , the popular video-streaming service that takes up a third of all internet traffic during peak traffic hours isn’t just the single largest internet traffic service . Netflix, without doubt, is also the largest pure cloud service.
Netflix, with more than a billion video delivery instances per month, is the largest cloud application in the world. At the Linux Foundation ’s Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, California, Adrian Cockcroft, director of architecture for Netflix’s cloud systems team, after first thanking everyone “for building the internet so we can fill it with movies”, said that Netflix’s Linux, FreeBSD, and open-source based services are “cloud...
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Why big IT projects always go wrong | Technology | The Observer - www.guardian.co.uk 01:45 22/04/2013
Wrong, said Fred … the IBM programme alerted Fred Brooks to the snags inherent in big projects. Photograph: IBM Archive
Iin 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing . It had the intriguing title of The Mythical Man-Month and it consisted simply of a set of essays on the art of managing large software projects. Between its covers is distilled more wisdom about computing than is contained in any other volume, which is why it has never been out of print. And every government minister, civil servant and chief executive thinking about embarking on a large IT project should be obliged to read it – and answer a multiple-choice quiz afterwards. How...
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All those curse words and other commands you yell at Siri hang around a bit longer than you may think.
In response to a Wired story expressing concern about Siri’s privacy policy, Apple has revealed exactly what happens to your Siri chats . Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told Wired on Thursday that Apple may keep your Siri data for up to two years, albeit in an untraceable state.
Here’s how the process works, according to Wired.
Whenever you talk to Siri, your commands are uploaded to Apple for analysis. Apple then assigns you a random number, which it associates with your voice files. It’s this random number — not your Apple ID or e-mail address — that gets stored on the backend.
After six months or if you simply...
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Craig Lloyd , Apr 17th 2013
Many of you are probably sporting some kind of anti-malware software on your computer, whether it’d Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, etc. However, it turns out that almost a quarter of all PCs in the world are unprotected, leaving them wide open for all kinds of havoc that no one really wants lurking around.
According to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report , 24% of all PCs are absent of any kind of anti-malware software. Microsoft says that unprotected computers are 5.5 times more likely to catch a virus than computers that have anti-malware...
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Bing Questions Study That Claimed It Delivers 5x More Malware Than Google, Says It Blocks 94% Of Clicks To Malicious Sites - techcrunch.com 23:19 19/04/2013
Last week, a study by German antivirus testing company AV-Test claimed that Microsoft’s Bing delivered “five times as many websites containing malware as Google.” Unsurprisingly, Microsoft does not agree with these findings and today, the company released a full rebuttal of AV-Test’s study. The researchers, Bing argues, used its API to execute queries instead of performing its searches directly on Bing.com. This methodology, however, Microsoft claims, bypassed Bing’s malware warning system.
Bing, Microsoft’s senior program manager for Bing David Felstead notes in his response, “actually does prevent customers from clicking on malware infected sites by disabling the link on the results page and showing the below message to stop people from going to the site.”...
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Red Hat is renaming and rebuilding its open source JBoss application server. The new name is WildFly and with it will come a faster and more transparent development process.
Ever since Red Hat acquired JBoss in April of 2006 for $350 million, there has been both an open source JBoss Application Server (AS) and a commercial JBoss Application Platform.
After seven years of being in the market with those two technologies, Red Hat became concerned that there was some...
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It’s been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general.
Specifically, Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners today announced the results of the seventh annual Future of Open Source Survey, which found that open source software has matured to such an extent that it now influences everything from innovation to collaboration among competitors to hiring practices.
“It’s been recognized that software is eating the world,” said Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. “Our survey points to the fact...
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The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing - www.forbes.com 00:53 17/04/2013
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15 April 2013
Let me lead off by saying that I don’t think tests are bad. I really don’t. But here’s the thing: I don’t care what your test-code ratios are. You know what the best test-code ratio is? Whatever you need to make sure your crap works while still getting product out the door.
I can’t remember the last startup I read about that didn’t claim to have a strong TDD core. I’m a little weary of reading things like “If you don’t RSpec your Cucumbers then don’t bother applying here, because this startup is only for testing All-Starz.”
I want to reiterate that I believe that the optimal amount of testing > 0. That said, I think those who stand the most to gain by excessive testing are...
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Surprise! Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing - www.theverge.com 22:39 14/04/2013
Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to Amazon investors is always worth reading, a peek into the mind of arguably the most important CEO in the technology industry. In 2011, Bezos wrote a manifesto , positioning Amazon as a universal self-service platform, obliterating traditional gatekeepers and unlocking new sources of creativity. In 2012, Bezos plays his hand closer to the vest , returning to familiar pro-consumer themes, arguing that Amazon’s continued investment lets the company anticipate customer needs and meet them, sometimes even before customers can articulate them. Amazon, Bezos says, is focused on its customers, not its competition or Wall Street or short-term profitability — a tricky proposition in a letter to investors who are, typically, worried...
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OS X Code Reveals Apple’s Plans For Super-Fast Wi-Fi
Jamie Condliffe
With the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta release currently in the hands of developers, some of the more eagle-eyed nerds have noticed references to code which appear to confirm rumors about Apple’s plans to roll out super-fast Wi-Fi to its Macs. 9to5mac reports that devs have stumbled upon code in the OS’s Wi-Fi frameworks folder which...
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BlackBerry 10 launch by the numbers: Over 50% returns, 71% of people don’t want under any circumstances, 83% of Americans unaware it even launched (Updated) - 9to5mac.com 21:53 12/04/2013
via theapplelounge.com
Six years after Apple took the smartphone industry by surprise with its release of the iPhone, former market leader BlackBerry Limited, or RIM as it called itself until just recently, launched what some consider to be a true iPhone competitor .
The problem is that almost no one has seemed to notice. A recent poll by MKM Partners reveals that an overwhelming 83% of Americans do not know that BlackBerry has launched their new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone or new Blackberry 10 platform.
The company’s trouble does not just include marketing woes. The Wall Street Journal reports that over 50% of customers have returned their BlackBerry smartphones after trying out the platform.
That is not to say that BlackBerry hasn’t...
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If anything, give HP credit for historical parallels: when John F. Kennedy wanted to shake the U.S. out of a calamitous post-war funk, he gave Americans something to shoot for: the Moon. It’s very much in that spirit that HP’s management is hoping their latest Moonshot server product line will revitalize a company that’s been mired in declining hardware sales.
Based on early indications, there is a good chance that this launch will be successful.
Moonshot is not your typical server, with a single set of processors and memory storage sitting in a racked box, just one among many such boxes tightly networked together in racks and racks of such servers, filling up data centers, sucking in power and pumping out heat...
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Craig Lloyd , Apr 12th 2013
Between Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Google has always reigned supreme as the most popular choice, and it’s a good thing too, since a recent study found that Bing returned around five times more malware in search results than Google, meaning that Bing highlighted websites that contained malicious code of some kind.
German independent testing lab AV-Test conducted an 18-month study , and gathered up 40 million website provided by seven different search engines. 10 million websites came from Google and Bing each, with 13 million coming from...
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Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone - www.theatlantic.com 21:49 12/04/2013
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Twitter is rumored to be preparing for the launch this weekend of its much rumored Twitter Music app.
The microblogging service plans to launch its standalone music app tomorrow, sources familiar with the matter tell AllThingsD . Still other sources say the app will launch during this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, but not necessarily tomorrow.
CNET has contacted Twitter for comment and will update this report when we learn more.
The report comes on the heels of Twitter confirming that it has purchased music discovery service We Are Hunted . CNET reported in March that Twitter had acquired the music discovery service last year and was using its technology to build a standalone music app.
Related stories...
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Amazon’s Cloud Drive was unveiled two years ago for the primary purpose of letting customers store music files purchased from Amazon. Although you could upload other files to Cloud Drive, it wasn’t a replacement for cloud storage services like Dropbox because it didn’t automatically sync files from one computer to another.
Today, that limitation is gone. “The new app for Windows and Mac now includes File Sync, which lets users easily store and access files in the Amazon Cloud from a folder on their computer,” an Amazon spokesperson told Ars in an e-mail. “Files in this folder are automatically stored in Cloud Drive and can be accessed from a computer or the Web. When you install the app on a second computer all of your synced files...
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Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime networks are once again experiencing outages.
The outage, which is the second this week, began just before 8 a.m. PT, and once again affects “some users,” according to Apple’s system status page .
Both services experienced a similar outage this past Tuesday that lasted more than five hours.
iMessage is Apple’s proprietary messaging platform that works between iOS and OS X users. FaceTime is the company’s live video chat service, also for those two platforms. In January, Apple said that iMessage users were sending more than 2 billion messages a day on the service. For iPhone users, those are often in place of text messages when sending to another iOS device.
Update at 9:47 a.m. PT: And just...
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According to an unverified rumor from MacDailyNews , Apple will announce the next generation of its Mac Pro line sometime this month.
Apple will announce its replacement for the company’s Mac Pro lineup this month, a source who has been correct about Apple product matters in the past has just informed us. We cannot independently corroborate this information, so this item has been categorized as a rumor.
MacDailyNews says its source for this information has provided accurate information in the past, but the site still classifies the information as a “rumor” because it could not corroborate the details. The site previously reported accurate information regarding iCloud pricing and the iOS name .
The site is not sure if this will be a...
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Cloud Expo Authors: Related Topics: Cloud Expo: Article
Amazon AWS and the Public Cloud Paradox
Amazon need to think bigger about the cloud and embrace the enterprise
By Greg Ness
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It’s April Fool’s Day, and once again, the Web is filled with hilarious pranks.
I want to mention my favorite first, though, because it’s a LIVE prank that may not be on the air if there’s any delay. YouTube’s central prank is a video, here . It reveals that YouTube’s entire existence has been a contest to find the best video ever and that tonight, YouTube will shut down — the submission deadline will be over — and the winner will be announced.
But the best part: there’s a live ceremony going right now , where the list of nominees is being read aloud by two attractive hosts. With a straight face, they’re reading the descriptions of, apparently, every YouTube video — or at least every one with incoherent or inadvertently hilarious write-ups....
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Software engineers spend lots of time not building software | Application Development - InfoWorld - www.infoworld.com 04:01 9/04/2013
Software engineers spend more time on administration and other tasks than they do on actual application design and coding, according to a survey of developers by software development services vendor Electric Cloud. In the survey of 443 software engineers conducted in March, design and coding take up more hours than any other single process in a software development project: an average of 19.1 hours per week. Brainstorming and collaboration take up 6.7 hours. Administrative tasks, such as dealing with email and meetings, take up 5.8 hours. Software engineers spend 3.7 hours waiting for tests to complete , 3.5 hours waiting for builds to complete, and 2.7 hours on environment...
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Intel анонсировала новый Thunderbolt: в 2 раза большая скорость и поддержка 4k видео / Хабрахабр - habrahabr.ru 04:00 9/04/2013
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Intel анонсировала новый Thunderbolt: в 2 раза большая скорость и поддержка 4k видео
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На проходящей в Лас-Вегасе конференции NAB , Intel анонсировала новую версию интерфейса Thunderbolt .
Новое поколение этой технологии(кодовое название — Falcon Ridge) позволяет передавать данные со...
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In less than 20 years, experts predict , we will reach the physical limit of how much processing capability can be squeezed out of silicon-based processors in the heart of our computing devices. But a recent scientific finding that could completely change the way we build computing devices may simply allow engineers to sidestep any obstacles.
The breakthrough from materials scientists at IBM Research doesn’t sound like a big deal. In a nutshell, they claim to have figured out how to convert metal oxide materials, which act as natural insulators, to a conductive metallic state. Even better, the process is reversible.
Shifting materials from insulator to conductor and back is not exactly new, according to Stuart Parkin, IBM...
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April 1, 2013, 6:35 pm
EMC’s Amazon Challenger Comes Out
By QUENTIN HARDY A well-financed competitor to Amazon Web Services became official Monday.
Pivotal, a company spun out of assets of EMC and VMware , two tech companies each with billions in revenue, became an independent firm, ahead of a formal introduction on April 29 .
Paul Maritz , Pivitol’s chief executive, who long held senior positions at Microsoft , left a position as chief executive VMware to organize and run Pivotal. EMC, a big maker of data storage technology, owns a majority stake in VMware, which makes software for the efficient construction of data centers.
Pivotal has drawn talent from both companies, in particular a division of EMC specialized in...
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Here’s what Nokia cooked up for April Fools’ Day 2013: the 5AM-TH1N6 Constellation microwave.
(Credit:
Nokia)
You probably know this already, but today is April Fools’ Day.
And the pranks, they are a-comin’. This year’s batch of springtime hijinks from the greater tech community includes the usual onslaught from Google, along with notable entrants from Nokia, Sony, and others. Without further ado, here are some of the highlights.
• While it waits for its Lumia smartphones to build up a head of steam, Nokia is showing off a touch-screen microwave oven, the Nokia 5AM-TH1N6 Constellation , which features a Window Phone-like interface (“which can be operated with oven mitts”). Not to be outdone by Samsung Galaxy S4 ,...
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Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight | TechCrunch - techcrunch.com 02:46 31/03/2013
Editor’s note: Sacha Labourey is CEO of CloudBees was formerly CTO at JBoss. Follow him on Twitter @SachaLabourey . Steven G. Harris is senior vice president of products for CloudBees and was formerly SVP of Java Server Development at Oracle. Follow him on Twitter @stevengharris .
You could hear a collective sigh of relief from the software developer world when Judge William Alsup issued his ruling in the Oracle-Google lawsuit . Oracle lost on pretty much every point, but the thing that must have stuck most firmly in Oracle’s throat was this:
So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification...
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Unsecured passwords, photos, and other files found on Amazon's cloud - www.theverge.com 15:38 28/03/2013
By not setting their cloud storage accounts to private, businesses and developers have been inadvertently allowing unauthorized parties to retrieve sensitive documents, images and other files previously believed to be inaccessible. According to Net Security , just by probing Amazon’s S3 servers with automatically generated URLs for a number of major companies and websites, security researcher Will Vandevanter was able to discover 12,328 unique S3 “buckets,” 1,951 of which were left open to the public.
From those 1,951 buckets, Vandevanter was able to generate a list of 126 billion files. The sheer scale of data available made it impossible for it all to be analyzed, but from a sample of 40,000 publicly visible files, personal...
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The Internet is groaning today under the load of a huge cyberattack — one of the worst on record — that’s clogged some of its most vital systems. And while you might be inclined to blame Spamhaus or Cyberbunker, two European outfits at the center of this online dustup, almost no one is talking about the real villains here: the world’s Internet service providers.
First, some background on Spamhaus vs. Cyberbunker. Yes, that sounds like the lineup at a punk-rock show, but it’s actually a virtual battle that began when the anti-spam group Spamhaus added the Dutch web hosting company Cyberbunker to a blacklist used to fight spam. That apparently stung the outlaws at Cyberbunker, which prides itself on hosting...
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Computer pioneer Alan Kay says the iPad has “been dumbed down so far it’s distressing” - www.androidauthority.com 23:31 29/03/2013
Apple’s iPad may get outsold by Android tablets this year ; according to mobile computing pioneer Alan Kay, the iPad isn’t even that impressive. Kay recently spoke at a Churchill Club event in Silicon Valley and shared his thoughts on Apple’s tablet. Here are a few of his choice words:
“The iPad’s been dumbed down so far it’s distressing. And Microsoft of course followed suit with its interface.”
Kay claims the iPad is an anti-personal computer and not only is difficult, but doesn’t allow for symmetric creation. Instead of personal computers being designed “as a place where people are going to spend a lot of time and different people can exist there”, their design is based on marketing and the most number of devices...
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Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple - techcrunch.com 23:58 29/03/2013
Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads . Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2.
Goodreads had raised $2.75 million in funding from the likes of True Ventures since launching in January 2007. When we talked to them last August , the site had over 10 million members and had catalogued more than 360 million books, adding 22 million each month. Now, the site boasts over 16 million users.
This type of social integration could give Amazon a major advantage over e-sellers like Apple, who have no social components to their product whatsoever. With people actually discussing and sharing the books that they’re into, having an Amazon direct connect makes complete sense. The site can...
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What’s Facebook’s Big Mysterious Phone?
Sam Biddle
Next week, Facebook is going to show us its “new home on Android.” What does that mean? We’re not sure—we could be days away from The Facebook Phone, or just a lovely new life-consuming app. But here are our best bets...
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Apple ‘Pushing Hard’ for Summer Release of New ‘iRadio’ Music Streaming Service - www.mactrast.com 23:30 29/03/2013
Apple ‘Pushing Hard’ for Summer Release of New ‘iRadio’ Music Streaming Service
Posted in Apple , News on 29/03/2013 by J. Glenn Künzler
We’ve heard a lot of reports about Apple’s rumored streaming radio service lately – and many of those reports have come from credible sources. Today, a new report from The Verge provides additional details, claiming that the company has already made “significant progress” in negotiating with record labels, and is pushing to release the service this summer.
The Verge:
Much has been written about Apple’s plan to launch a Pandora-esque service this year. Now multiple music industry...
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HN from Y Combinator: Formspring - A Postmortem http://t.co/gh50ov2RJu
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9-килобайтный скрипт превратит любой браузер с WebRTC в узел распределённой CDN / Хабрахабр - habrahabr.ru 13:27 28/03/2013
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Чуть больше двух лет назад я написал статью-исследование “ Темная материя интернета ”. Основная идея той статьи — использовать ресурсы миллионов обычных...
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What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly
Posted on Tuesday March 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM by
Emin Gün Sirer
So, Yahoo is in the news for buying Summly. Summly is a company that extracts summaries of natural language text, a TL;DR of sorts.
Summly licensed its core technology from SRI, which, previously, spun out Siri and sold it to Apple. Summly had 5 engineers, only 2 of whom will be moving to Yahoo. Summly is reported to have 1M downloads of their app in mobile app stores.
I want to take a few minutes to process this, because it points to some trends that should cause any technologist to raise an eyebrow.
Topics that are off the table
Let’s leave aside...
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By Sean Michael Kerner | March 28, 2013
From the ‘East Texas Courtroom Shenanigans’ files:
Linux vendor Red Hat announced this AM that is has defeated Uniloc USA, Inc. in a patent law suit.
Uniloc didn’t actually sue Red Hat directly, they went after Rackspace (a Red Hat customer). Red Hat indemnifies its customers and has since it launched its Open Source Assurance program back in 2004.
The patent in question is U.S. Patent 5,892,697 which deals with the processing of floating point numbers. The TL;dr version is the judge dis-allowed the patent because mathematical algorithms cannot be patented under US...
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Rackspace Develops a Taste for NoSQL, Buys Redis to Bolster Lineup - siliconangle.com 13:51 28/03/2013
Rackspace shelled out an undisclosed sum for Exceptional Cloud Services, a San-Francisco-based startup that develops solution for Redis. Redis is a popular open source key-value store that is designed to support large databases which process transactions at very rapid speeds – in other words, Big Data.
As a part of the deal, Rackspace is acquiring the rights for Exceptional Cloud Services’ three software products: the Exceptional.io error tracking engine, a supplementary visualization platform called Airbrake.io, and the Redis to Go management automation framework. The company says that these solutions are used by over 50,000 developers worldwide.
Besides acquiring the IP, Rackspace is absorbing Exceptional Cloud Services’...
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После шести месяцев разработки официально представлен релиз десктоп-окружения GNOME 3.8. В подготовке новой версии приняло участие 960 разработчиков, по сравнению с прошлым выпуском внесено 35936 изменения. Для быстрого ознакомления с возможностями нового выпуска подготовлен специальный демонстрационный Live-дистрибутив на основе openSUSE.
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian calls out 'fellow geeks' for ostracizing, sexist behavior - www.theverge.com 22:20 26/03/2013
Flipboard Tech: RT @verge: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian calls out 'fellow geeks' for ostracizing, sexist behavior http://t.co/g3Wosbw7Cn
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If you haven’t noticed, the Marissa Mayer-led Yahoo has been on a bit of an acquisition roll lately, buying up a number of small startups as it drives toward relevance. At least, that’s the plan.
The latest? Summly, a mobile news reader startup helmed by someone young enough to not know a world that Yahoo did not inhabit. Sobering.
(The others: mobile interest tracker Stamped, news clipper Snip.it, restaurant recommendation app Alike, culture recommendation app Jybe, and video chat platform OnTheAir.)
What’s the bigger strategy, exactly? Writing for Fast Company, Sarah Kessler takes a stab at it . Her conclusion? Mobile, sure. But it’s really all about building an “interest graph” — loosely defined as a map of all the...
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Hold the phone! Amazon Web Services is launching a mobile applications initiative. According to a company job post , AWS seeks a software development engineer for a new iOS/Android AWS initiative to be based in Palo Alto, Calif.
The ideal candidate will have built a “top 25 app” and want to build a “brand new service from the ground floor”, according to the job post.
It continued:
“In this role, you will be responsible for creating and owning world-class production tablet and web client applications across major platforms including iOS and Android . You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be...
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Something is seriously wrong in Larry Land. Oracle does not command absolute control like it once did. You can see this clearly with the earnings the company posted last week and the growth that startups like Datastax are witnessing as more customers seek alternative databases for online applications.
Until this past week, the extent of Oracle’s problems were not known. But there is a cut, a slight bleeding that’s now visible. But how deep is the cut? How much is Oracle really bleeding? That’s exactly the question analysts asked in a Reuters story after the earnings results:
“Data base revenue, which has been the cash machine of the company, has changed. There are now alternative databases, as well as the cloud,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at...
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OS X launcher app Quicksilver reaches version 1.0.0 after ten-year beta - www.theverge.com 16:24 26/03/2013
OS X launcher utility Quicksilver has finally graduated from beta status, almost ten full years since it first made its debut. Version 1.0.0 of the application was released for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 today for free. While the past ten years has seen development move on from Nicholas Jitkoff (who’s since been hired by Google) and the program has been open sourced, the launcher app still retains its proponents.
The new version includes preliminary Retina display support, a new Add to Catalog action, support for alternative search “synonyms” (to distinguish between similar sounding items), and a huge list of other minor changes, but the core functionality is the same as it always was. Like other launcher apps like Alfred (a favorite around...
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Java Authors: Related Topics: Virtualization: Article
The new widgetry moves ultra-fast graphics-intensive tasks from pricey workstations to low-end PCs
By Maureen O’Gara
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Super Elastic Clouds: Is it Time to Remove the OS From Cloud Computing Stacks? - www.forbes.com 17:37 24/03/2013
The typical virtual machine deployed on Amazon EC2 takes more than 300 seconds to fully start. Needless to say a lot can happen in 5 minutes. Based on a recent quarter’s revenue of $4.13 billion globally, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute or about $155,000 in five minutes. In the modern Internet centric world speed has never been more important. A new project by Cloudozer called Erlang on Xen is looking to address this need for speed by removing the OS from the equation all together.
According to the project creators a fast startup is the cornerstone of the super-elastic clouds of the future. Think personal Facebook , personal Gmail, personal bank at the new level of privacy and...
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Nearly 35% Of Android Apps In China Secretly Steal User Data, Another Sign Of Google’s Lack Of Control - techcrunch.com 16:04 15/03/2013
Flipboard Tech: http://t.co/uts7jFmRmn
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Free Access To Dozens of Anonymous VPNs Via New University Project - torrentfreak.com 17:31 24/03/2013
Andy
March 24, 2013
As citizens around the world endure Internet censorship of all types, a Japanese university has stepped in to level the playing field. Whether you’re in Iran or China and blocked from YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, or in the UK desperate to get back on The Pirate Bay, KAT or H33T, a new tool from researchers gives instant access to dozens of VPN services. Not only is the system simple to use, but it’s also completely free.
No matter which country you live in there are always people in authority seeking to limit which websites you’re able to view.
Admittedly some sites are quite rightly deemed repulsive to society in general and 99% of the public have few problems with them being hidden away....
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Bing Now Knows Much More About People And Places Thanks To Its Satori Entity Engine And LinkedIn | TechCrunch - techcrunch.com 13:43 23/03/2013
Microsoft’s Bing search engine now knows quite a bit more about people and places, thanks to an upgrade to its Satori entity engine and a partnership with LinkedIn . This means Bing now features the profiles of “web-active” users, professionals and celebrities in its Snapshots bar and has a significantly better understanding about places and things. Today’s update, Microsoft says, marks the “most significant updates to Satori (which you will see show up in the Snapshot feature on Bing) since its introduction.”
The updated Bing doesn’t just show this information, though. It also makes it available through complex natural language queries like “ Who won best actor in 2009 ?” The search engine is smart enough to understand that you are...
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Yandex introduces Twym online payment system for Twitter-based transfers - www.engadget.com 00:56 23/03/2013
Russia’s Yandex has been in the online payment business for more than a decade now with its Yandex.Money service, but it’s branching out into some slightly more uncharted territory with its latest addition. Dubbed Twym, the company’s new service will let folks send actual rubles to other Twitter users with nothing more than a tweet like the one above. Before that transfer takes place, though, both the sender and receiver of the money will need to link their Twitter and Yandex.Money accounts, and there are expectedly some limits on the amounts that can be transfered. 100,000 rubles (or roughly $3,300) is the maximum limit allowed by Yandex, but that can be changed by each user. You can also thankfully keep things...
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18 Mar 2013 4 pm eastern
Cloudtastrophe
A VIRUS spoofing my return email address has apparently been emailing many people. I know this because some of these viral email messages bounce back to my Gmail account as undeliverable. Mistaking these reports for actual messages sent by me, Gmail has decided I’m too active a user, and forbidden me to send any more mail today.
I’m a Google Apps user with a multi-gigabyte Gmail account and I’ve sent less than a dozen actual messages today because I am home sick with a cold. But Gmail doesn’t know that. And Gmail doesn’t care. Because Gmail isn’t real, not even in the David Sleight sense . It’s a set of equations programmed by fallible...
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Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight - gigaom.com 17:18 17/03/2013
A hacker attack recently shut down the ad service OnRamp completely. In an official statement posted on its forums a few weeks ago, OpenX , the parent company of OnRamp, questioned the security of open source technology.
Let me be clear about this: This isn’t an open source issue, and we shouldn’t level blame on open source users and producers (Full disclosure: my company Sonatype is an open source software development firm). Economic and production efficiencies of open source have made it an almost compulsory component of any modern software application. We’ve all reaped tremendous benefits from open source – we develop fast, re-use proven components, and can focus more time on the functionality that’s truly valuable to our employers.
It’s not...
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Airbnb Open Sources Its Chronos Scheduler, A More Flexible Cron Replacement With A Web-Based GUI - techcrunch.com 21:17 15/03/2013
TechCrunch: Airbnb Open Sources Its Chronos Scheduler, A More Flexible Cron Replacement With A Web-Based GUI http://t.co/SoYUDNYg4W by @fredericl
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We’ve blogged a lot about how we use Java here at Netflix, but Python’s footprint in our environment continues to increase. In honor of our sponsorship of PyCon , we wanted to highlight our many uses of Python at Netflix. Developers at Netflix have the freedom to choose the technologies best suited for the job. More and more, developers turn to Python due to its rich batteries-included standard library, succinct and clean yet expressive syntax, large developer community, and the wealth of third party libraries one can tap into to solve a given problem. Its dynamic underpinnings enable developers to rapidly iterate and innovate, two very important qualities at Netflix. These features (and more) have led to increasingly pervasive use of Python in everything from...
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Last night Netflix hosted a gathering at its spa-like headquarters for 200 or so members of the Clouderati—the engineers building out the computing infrastructure on which businesses will someday run. Netflix ( NFLX ) has a reputation for pushing the limits of cloud computing, running much of its movie streaming business on Amazon.com’s cloud rental system. And the engineers from around Silicon Valley came to hear about the latest and greatest tools Netflix’s technical staff had concocted.
When it comes to infrastructure technology, we live in absurd times. Netflix—like Facebook ( FB ) , LinkedIn ( LNKD ) , Twitter, Yahoo ( YHOO ) , and other Web celebs—open sources much of the software that underlies its operations. Put more bluntly, they fight for the right...
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AWS Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Anyone To Create A Virtual Private Cloud Showing Again How Enterprise Tech Is Obsolete - techcrunch.com 23:46 11/03/2013
Amazon Web Services will now offer the option for everyone to have their own virtual private cloud (VPC), another sign of the company’s intent to push into the enterprise market. The service means that every customer using EC2 will see the option for a VPC as an instance type. Until now, the VPC was a separate service.
A VPC lets customers create what AWS calls a “virtual network of logically isolated EC2 instances and an optional VPN connection to your own datacenter.” That development has implications for customers who are weighing the benefits of a data-center centric approach that virtualizes a network of physical centers to create their own elastic infrastructure. The problem comes down to the cost of licensing, new hardware and the IT staff to manage...
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REUTERS/Kimberly White
Apple !
A year ago analysts were tripping over themselves to raise their price targets .
This year, they’re tripping over themselves to lower their price targets .
A year ago, the stock was flying to the moon .
This year the stock has taken a serious tumble back to earth.
A year ago, it was the brand that could do no wrong.
This year, it’s a company for old people , and it’s at risk of being the next Motorola — a one time high flyer who defined the mobile phone, but crashed when people moved on to the next thing.
What happened to Apple that it’s been so thoroughly tarnished?
We’ll do our...
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I imagine that this post is going to draw the ire of some. It seems like every
time I mention this on Twitter or anywhere else
there is always some pushback from people who think that putting comments in
your code is a waste of time.
I think your code needs comments, but so we have a mutual understanding, lets
qualify that.
def somefunction ( a , b ):
#add a to b
c = a + b
#return the result of a + b
return c
I understand this is a contrived example but this is the comment trap that new
developers get caught in. These types of comments really aren’t useful to anyone.
Peppering the code that you just wrote with excessive comments, especially when
it is abundantly clear what the code is doing, is the least useful...
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Many years ago I thought of source code as some sort of art form. I actually had a belief that it could be “perfect”, to a level, and that pursuit of this goal of perfection was somehow important. It was something akin to believing that software developers were artists that used code as a medium for expression of that art. The worst part of that belief was that I was striving for perfection in my eyes, not those of my users. Perfection had to do with how the software was implemented, but not whether or not is ultimately useful. How utterly naive.
Business is like a street fight and to have any hope at beating your opponents you’ve got to focus on delivering what customers value. And they don’t value how software is written; they value what it...
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