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Xamarin bundles over 1,000 test devices in the cloud
Xamarin, the mobile app-dev specialists, has announced the launch of its new web-based “Xamarin Test Cloud”, which lets developers test out their apps and programs on over 1,000 devices. Developers will be able to create their own test scripts using Xamarin’s powerful framework, run them locally on devices or emulators, and then run the same ...
Bash! Take that Heartbleed, there’s a new bug in town
Linux users, which includes the vast majority of the world’s enterprises, could be in for a nasty shock. A security team at Red Hat has just uncovered a deadly new bug in the Bash shell, which is one of the most versatile and widely used utilities in the Linux OS. The bug’s been given the ...
Anti-US sentiment to cause ‘dramatic change’ in the data center market
The world’s data center infrastructure market is bracing itself for “dramatic changes” over the next two to four years, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. Joe Skorupa, Gartner vice president and analyst, said that four factors – highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism – are set to have ...
Ebola Maps: Tracking the deadly disease across West Africa
No matter if it’s Black Death in 1350, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, or this year’s Ebola virus in West Africa, there’s one thing that deadly pandemics have in common – their progress takes a geographical course. And just as in medieval times, the Ebola virus’ rampage across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is fueled by ...
Canonical & Oracle tag team against Red Hat in OpenStack
Red Hat might be confident of its chances to become the world’s “undisputed” leader in OpenStack, but that hasn’t fazed rivals Canonical or Oracle, who’ve just announced a ‘tag team’ partnership to support each other’s OpenStack distros. “As we have said in the past, while Oracle provides solutions for OpenStack, Linux, and virtualization, Oracle also ...
Western Europe plays catch-up with Big Data
Western Europe is lagging behind the U.S. in terms of Big Data use due to a shortage of skills and worries over data security, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The rate of adoption has also been slowed by the area’s struggling economy and recent EU regulations like the “right to ...
Rackspace takes another scalp in its crusade against patent trolls
Rackspace, which has taken on the mantle of ‘crusader’ against patent trolls, has just scored another crucial victory. But rather than just challenging the validity of the troll’s claims, this time round it’s actually managed to get one patent invalidated. “Rotatable Technologies is now an ex-patent troll,” beamed Van Lindberg, Rackspace’s VP of intellectual property, ...
Red Hat: We want to be “undisputed leader” in the cloud
Red Hat isn’t content with merely being the world’s largest enterprise Linux vendor. Now, it wants to become the industry’s leading enterprise cloud vendor as well, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says he’s going to “win” the market before someone else gets there first. In a blog post, Whitehurst notes: “We’re in the midst ...
EMC flirts with HP & Dell in rumored $132bn Mega-Merger
Rumors of a mega-merger between storage giant EMC Corp., and rival firms Dell Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, have emerged in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Citing its usual “people familiar with the matter,” the WSJ says EMC is under enormous pressure from activist shareholders who think the company would be worth more broken up and ...
Big ‘Mobile Phone’ Data predicts crimes before they happen
While it’s true that crime can occur anywhere and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, it’s still possible to find patterns in the data. Thus, while it can be difficult to predict if a specific individual is likely to commit a crime, attempts to determine when are where crimes might take place can be ...