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Tops Dogs Team Up for Project Savana : Hadoop Simplified for OpenStack
Project Savana, the OpenStack project originally developed by Mirantis, is getting support from some of the industry’s top players to provide an integration point for third party Hadoop provisioning and management frameworks, such as the Apache Ambari project. The news comes during the annual OpenStack Summit, being held in Portland this week. Hortonworks, a significant ...
Google Reveals Glass Specs + API : Has a Ton of Developer Restrictions
Google has officially announced the tech specs of the infamous Google Glass, giving consumers and developers plenty to mull over before the new wearable device hits the market. For users . According to its tech specs page, Google Glass has a frame that is durable and stays in place, plus adjustable nose pads to fit ...
OpenStack’s Other Worldly Origins + AWS Rivalry : A Brief History
OpenStack Summit is in full swing in Portland, Oregon this week. Launched in 2010 by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack is all about providing cloud computing to everyone, but how it has become one of the top choices for public and private sectors in cloud computing? Collaboration with spacemen . OpenStack is the product of the collaboration ...
Will OpenStack Prove Significant in the Enterprise? Against AWS?
If you’re a developer, user, or administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software, you’re probably at OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon, provided that you registered early as the event is already sold out. If not, then you can watch our coverage on theCube, which is streaming live from SiliconANGLE.TV, for exclusive interviews and on-site analysis. Speaking of ...
A Monster from Rome: The BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown
The Public Prosecutor of Rome, Italy has ordered the blocking of 27 BitTorrent, cyberlocker and other file-sharing sites such as Rapidgator, Uploaded, BitShare, NowVideo, VideoPremium, as it aims to battle piracy. “The domains of sites linking to torrent files, in order to download illegal copies of music and movies, have been seized [blocked] this week ...
Microsoft Unsure of SmartWatch Market, New Rivalry with Apple + Google
In today’s mobile news roundup: Microsoft in on the smartwatch game; Apple duped by scammers; Foxconn resumes hiring for next iPhone; and Dish to block Softbank’s Sprint acquisition. Microsoft in on the smartwatch game The software giant is said to be working on a “touch-enabled” watch device that could potentially go head-to-head with Apple’s iWatch, ...
Your Mobile + Social Guide to OpenStack Summit : 2013
Open source holds a special place in the tech industry, boosting standards for developers and CIOs alike. This week we’re particularly interested in the OpenStack Summit, as the open sourced IaaS community continues to gain support from the industry’s top players. We’ll be broadcasting live from the OpenStack Summit, kicking off today and running through ...
“Batsh*t Crazy” Rackspace Takes on AWS with Cloned OpenStack
In a move deemed by some as “batshit crazy,” Rackspace is said to be cloning its cloud services and making it available to the public. This move to counter the success that Amazon is having with its Amazon Web Services platform (AWS). Rackspace stated that it will provide telecommunications companies, IT vendors, and hosting companies ...
NVIDIA to Focus on LTE-Capable Chips as it Returns $1B to Shareholders
After announcing that Tegra, NVIDIA’s mobile chip, is growing at a pretty speedy rate, we learn that the business is expected to remain “flat” for the remainder of the year due to the delay in the launch of Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i. With that news, investors weren’t pleased and shares dropped, but recovered when ...
Twitter Music Launching at Coachella
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Twitter Music to launch at Coachella; Apple to sign iRadio licensing agreement; BlackBerry 10 is non existent; LinkedIn acquires Pulse; and Apple agrees to settle class action lawsuit. Twitter Music to launch at Coachella Twitter has confirmed rumors that it has acquired We Are Hunted, a music discovery ...