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Tech giants form alliance to fend off patent trolls
Some of the biggest names in tech have formed an alliance to try to shield themselves from the ravages of patent trolls. Companies including Google, Asana, Canon, Dropbox, Newegg, Pure Storage and SAP are the founding members of the License on Transfer Network, or Lotnet, which is hoping to attract more members into the alliance. ...
Adobe patches critical Flash flaw that can steal just about anything
Adobe has just issued a critical patch to fix a gaping security flaw in Flash that could affect users of dozens of popular websites, including eBay, Instagram, Tumblr and others. The flaw, was discovered by security blogger Michele Spagnuolo and has allegedly been known about for some time, makes it possible for hackers to steal ...
VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service looming over the Far East
VMware could be readying for an assault on the Far East, according to a report in The Register, which has spotted clues it may be about to open a data center in the region. The publication claims that VMware is looking to setup its vCloud Hybrid Service shop in Kyushu, Japan, based on a number ...
Intel, Dell, Samsung & co team up to rule the Internet of Things
Yet another bunch of big tech firms has made a play for the Internet of Things. This time around the quintet of Amtel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel and Samsung has teamed up to create the “Open Interconnect Consortium”, in a bid to promote a unified standard for IoT. The consortium spells out its mission as thus: ...
Red Hat ships OpenStack Platform 5 with long-term support
Red Hat has just shipped out the latest version of its Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Aimed at service providers like ISPs, telcos and cloud providers, RHELOP5 is built to let them spin up OpenStack powered clouds, and is based on the recently released OpenStack Icehouse platform that came out in April. One of the main ...
Can Apache Spark live up to the hype?
Spark Summit 2014 provided the latest evidence that the Apache Spark open source data analytics framework may be about to catch fire. Lauded by SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier as the “next big thing in Big Data”, Spark is turning heads because of its impressive speed. It’s becoming a popular alternative to MapReduce, which is one of the central components in ...
EMC boosts its hybrid cloud with raft of new upgrades
EMC has announced a raft of new upgrades to its VMAX family of systems and its XtremIO services, and its Isilon OneFS platform at a special event in London today. The announcements were made at the Redefine Possible event this morning, where the focus is about how EMC is changing to support the growth of ...
IBM battles Beijing’s smog with Big Data
China’s well known for its pollution problem, and few cities are more notorious than its capital Beijing, where smog and dust is believed to be the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year. People are fed up, and this anger has led authorities to declare war on pollution, with the goal of cutting Beijing’s ...
Bitcoin to introduce ‘floating’ fees to speed up transactions
Bitcoin’s chief scientist Gavin Andresen has taken to the Bitcoin Foundation’s blog to outline new ‘floating transaction fees’ that will be introduced in the Bitcoin Core 0.10 release. In his post, Andresen writes that the new code will enable something he calls “smarter” fees which govern the length of time it takes for transactions to ...
Red Hat clone CentOS-7 looks just like RHEL 7
The latest update of CentOS, the free community edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has just been released, according to posts on the official CentOS blog. CentOS version 7 if the first iteration of the OS to be release since it brokered a deal with Red Hat earlier this year to work together more closely. ...