Samsung flexes its open source muscles where you might not expect

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	Samsung flexes its open source muscles where you might not expect When you think of open source, you probably think of Linux, engines such as the WebKit browser engine and the Java language and virtual machine, and open source software such as LibreOffice, Firefox, Apache HTTP server, Git, Asterisk, and MySQL. You may not think of appliances, TVs, and cameras -- but that's exactly where consumer electronics giant Samsung uses open source software. Read More WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software RecoverTrac Demo: Failback in a Multi-server Environment RecoverTrac technology orchestrates the failback and recovery of resources in a simplified, automated fashion. Watch how RecoverTrac enables failback from virtual resources at a disaster recovery site to physical servers, and from one set of hardware to another, restoring services at the data center.t Learn More In this Issue Red Hat, Mirantis, and Hortonworks unite behind Hadoop on OpenStack Google discloses tech specs and developer API for Glass Boston blasts show two sides of social media Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic Symantec report finds small businesses battered by cyber crime WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization. Read More Red Hat, Mirantis, and Hortonworks unite behind Hadoop on OpenStack Red Hat, OpenStack startup Mirantis, announced today at the OpenStack Summit that they are throwing resources behind Project Savanna, which is aimed at delivering the Hadoop Big Data engine atop the OpenStack cloud platform. The goal of the open-source endeavor is to enable OpenStack users to easily provision and manage elastic Hadoop clusters on the cloud platform for such purposes as delivering "analytics as a service" for ad-hoc or bursty analytic workloads, similar to Amazon Web Services' Elastic MapReduce. Read More Google discloses tech specs and developer API for Glass The Google Glass wearable computer will have a high-resolution display equivalent of a 25-inch high-definition screen from eight feet away, and will capture 5-megapixels images and video at a resolution of 720p, according to technical specs disclosed on Monday. The device will also support Wi-Fi compliant with 802.11b/g standards and Bluetooth, and has 12GB of usable memory, synced with Google cloud storage. It has 16GB flash memory in total. Read More Boston blasts show two sides of social media Twitter users reacted fast to the explosions that ripped through the Boston Marathon Monday, but the incident also revealed how social media can only be so reliable in such situations. Read More Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. The study shows an 80 percent drop in algorithmic traffic to five online travel agencies, while click-through rates for paid advertising jumped 160 percent. Read More Symantec report finds small businesses battered by cyber crime Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defenses, according to a new report from Symantec. Companies with 250 employees or less absorbed 18 percent of targeted cyber attacks in 2011, but the figure jumped to 31 percent in 2012, Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report 2013, released on Tuesday. Read More
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