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Sprout by HP is far from your average desktop PC. It’s a way to merge the physical world that we live in with the digital world that we work in. With new ways to bring physical objects into the digital workspace, Sprout is poised to change the way that we interact with computers, and each other.
Canonical is taking a shot at dealing with virtual machine address scaling problems, and reckons it can do so without resorting to software-defined network approaches.…
A few months back, we looked at Iminit’s video stabilization technology; now the Swedish video technology wizards are back with another demo of what its final product will be able to do with basic smartphone video. Instead of just stabilizing the video, Imint’s defense-developed auto-zoom algorithms can now also automatically track and zoom in on the most interesting parts of… Read More
Buy time with Server 2008 or bite the 64-bit upgrade bullet?
This is the last gasp migration for Microsoft ecosystem 16-bit applications. Windows Server 2008 x86 is the last Microsoft server operating system to support them. You can upgrade from Server 2003 to Server 2008 and buy yourself a few more years, but extended support for Server 2008 runs out in 2020.…
During a fascinating talk chaired by Intel’s VP of the internet of things (IoT) Philip Moynagh, some of Ireland’s, and the world’s best examples of IoT wearables were showcased ranging from a wristband to a butterfly dress.
Developers building apps on top of OpenStack get more tutorials to play with. Everett Toews published abstract, slides and code from his talk at QCon in New York on how to get started building and deploying an application on OpenStack.
Nir Yechiel published a summary of the talk he gave at OpenStack Israel event on June 15th: what is a Neutron plugin, what plugins are available and how to choose one.
When working in the Cloud the idea of doing backups like in the old days may seen counter intuitive. After all, the main reasons for having backups are recovering data after it’s lost, by deletion or corruption, and recovering it from an earlier time, and you have those covered with fast volume snapshots and the use of fault tolerant back-ends like Ceph, that replicate data, for your volumes. So, why would you still need old school backups? Find out on Gorka Eguileor‘s post.
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Two and a half years ago, I found myself sitting in a car with Eben Upton about three days into my new job at Raspberry Pi. We discussed – among other things – everything we wanted to do with the Raspberry Pi hardware and with the products around the Pi. One of the things we discussed […]
New docs contributors may be afraid of moving too fast and breaking things – but don’t worry, you can’t. A simpler markup language and a robust community of experienced, multilingual contributors make it even easier to find what you love and dive right in. Here are five key things you need to know about documentation but were probably afraid to ask.
The paperwork for opening a business or getting unemployment benefits often feels like a game of red-light/green-light. For every bit of progress, you get pushed back to collect more documents or show those same documents to a different agency. That’s where OpenStack comes in, says Victor Lagunes, CIO, office of the president of Mexico. About 18 months ago, the Mexican government started on a path to consolidate a staggering 4,000 federal websites for 6,500 services into a single portal to rule them all.
Watching the rabbit event queue on an OpenStack cloud when spawning a VM
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Your WiFi router is currently only delivering data to your devices, but one day it might be able to send power as well. PhD student Vamsi Talla and a team in the Sensor […]
In the future, everything will be made of Lego if the Legoizer has anything to say about it. This system, really a piece of pixelation software, turns images into Lego creations by breaking them into block-sized chunks and supplying a shopping list and list of instructions. For example, the image above takes 34 rows of Lego to build and requires a few hundred pieces of various colors,… Read More
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Printing out your Instagram photos isn’t all that revolutionary.
We’ve seen countless companies do this: CanvasPop puts your Instagrams on Canvas, Printstagram turns them into calendars, minibooks, and stickers, while Kanvess will hook you up with 3×3-inch Instagram prints for 25 cents a pop.
But a new service called InstaThis is taking it to a whole new level, letting users print their Instagram photos onto either wood or acrylic. “There’s a bit more craftsmanship in what we do,” said founder Nate Larkin.
The service is priced quite competitively — a CanvasPop 12×12 print usually goes for $79.95, whereas InstaThis’s 12×12 offering on wood costs $60.
InstaThis encourages higher transaction volume by offering more of a discount if you order more pictures. For example, if you order three prints you see savings of 20 percent, for four prints you see savings of 25 percent, and on and on. However, you can’t get the same discount if you want multiple prints in different sizes.
Most other services, namely CanvasPop (which would be the greatest competitor at this point), don’t offer this kind of bulk discounting in their pricing. This gives InstaThis a competitive advantage considering that most people don’t want one random 10 x 10 Instagram print on their wall, but rather a grid or collection of prints.
Using the site is relatively painless — just choose your material, size, and how many prints you want, and then head into your Instagram collection to make your decision. The hardest part of the whole process is choosing which photos are worth a spot on your wall.
Is it the view from your airplane window as you land in Las Vegas or that picture of your cat wearing a human’s glasses? Perhaps it’s the Instagram of your Thai food from last night?
The decision is yours. So what’ll it be, wood or acrylic?
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Cancer-detecting yogurt now possible
MIT boffins have made a breakthrough in biological computing that paves the way for cancer-detecting yogurts and other gloopy marvels.…
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Over the past couple of years, Citrix has witnessed explosive growth in our cloud solutions. Not only have we seen organizations of all types building new and innovative clouds, but also industry recognition like the Info-Tech Research Group’s Cloud Management Vendor Landscape. One especially exciting area has been our service provider and Telco customers that are building cloud solutions using Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack.…
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HP is looking into getting back into the mobile hardware game, according to a new report from ReadWrite which the Verge says is being confirmed from their own sources. HP famously bought webOS and then brought a tablet to market based on that Palm-developed platform, the TouchPad, which ended up being a dismal failure that the company shut down very quickly.
HP had also launched a smartphone, the Veer 4G based on webOS, but that also proved ineffective at capturing the attention of consumers. The company is apparently still looking to get back into the hardware game after a hiatus spanning a couple of years, however, with a new tablet featuring an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, which ReadWrite pegs for an imminent announcement, and is also considering Android-based smartphone for future development. Verge reports that the timeline sounds good, but scheduling could change for a tablet launch.
After HP CEO Meg Whitman took over, she announced that the company would ultimately offer a smartphone to keep up with the fact that for many in the developing world, such a device is now their first and maybe only computer. That launch isn’t planned for 2013, however, Whitman later stated.
But back in late 2011, Whitman did make statements to the effect that HP could create webOS-powered tablets again in 2013. While these reports suggest webOS is likely off the table, HP could stick to Whitman’s target plan of fielding a tablet device based on a mobile OS this year, but one based on Android instead of its own product, which it has since open-sourced.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that HP would dip its toes back in the mobile hardware pool even after suffering such a reversal the first time around. The fact is that mobile is where the computing industry is going, and Apple’s iPad is almost singlehandedly propping up the sagging fortunes of traditional mobile PC form factors like notebooks. And HP missed earnings expectations in Q4 2012, thanks in part to a continuing “decline in hardware.”
A tablet isn’t a panacea for HP, however. The Android tablet market still has yet to find a champion that can compare to the iPad’s popularity, and there is plenty of competition out there for buyer attention. Fielding a device that impresses above and beyond what’s already out there, at a price point that turns heads is a basic requirement for Android tablet success at this point, from HP or from anyone else.
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Cybercriminals are increasingly banding together, organizing more sophisticated attacks that are more predatory in nature.
Can you fully deploy a backup solution for your Citrix environment in 5 minutes ? Listen to PHD Virtual explain how to backup a Citrix environment… Read more at VMblog.com.
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There’s nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost: you have to set everything up again, just the way you like it. Here’s how to reinstall Windows, migrate your important settings, and leave the clutter behind. More »
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BlueStacks, the startup bringing Android applications to PCs and Macs, is today releasing a version of its App Player software optimized for new Surface Pro PCs and others running Windows 8. The move comes on the heels of key distribution agreements with several companies in the PC ecosystem, including AMD, Asus, MSI, and most recently, Lenovo. The various deals will see BlueStacks’ software preloaded onto over 100 million PCs in 2013, BlueStacks previously announced.
We’re now also hearing that the startup is talking with Dell and HP about similar deals.
Today’s release of the App Player for Surface Pro is the first time the BlueStacks software has been supported on the Windows 8 operating system – and it comes at a critical time for Microsoft, whose Surface devices are suffering from lackluster sales, amid incongruous reports of “amazing” customer response and sold out inventories.
With BlueStacks, customers can now run 750,000+ Android applications on their Windows computers, which is a big leap up from the some 35,000 apps currently available in the Windows 8 app store.
“The Surface Pro is an innovative device, but it has none of the top apps,” says BlueStacks CEO, Rosen Sharma. “This fixes that and adds a lot of value for buyers.”
To customize the software for the new OS, BlueStacks now offers the ability to launch the Player from a tile pinned to the Windows 8 Start screen, and it includes a true full-screen mode. In earlier Windows 7 releases, that was not the case, as the software had left room for the BlueStacks control strip at the bottom of the screen. There’s also a new “Charms” menu, available on the right side of the screen, where the Back, Menu, Settings and Home buttons (for Android) are provided.
Android apps use the tilt and motion sensor of the Surface Pro/Windows 8 tablet to re-orient their display to portrait or landscape mode accordingly.
“We have had a lot of people write us that they were on the fence about getting a Surface Pro, and were waiting for something like this,” John Gargiulo, BlueStacks VP of Marketing and Biz Dev, tells us.
The company has now passed 5 million downloads of its mobile software across both Mac and PC, based on numbers from BlueStacks.com’s homepage. However, its OEM partners have not yet revealed their numbers, only reporting “healthy” adoption rates.
BlueStacks today is also paying tribute to Google’s “Get Your Google Back” campaign promoting the Google Windows 8 application, with its own take – GetYourAppsBack.com. From this website, Windows 8 users can download both the App Player and Android apps.
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Dropbox for Teams has a new set of features that gives IT deep visibility and control over the way both individuals and groups use the service. The new features show how Dropbox is entering a new chapter in its evolution, pointing to a future where a significant aspect of its business will focus on the business market.
Dropbox For Teams launched in late 2011. In August of last year the company began offering two-factor authentication, followed in October by providing IT with more visibility into who was using the authentication capability. With the new feature sets offered today, Dropbox is offering granularity that for example gives IT a view into the actions people take, the devices they are using, per-user storage usage, linked devices and third-party applications the person or group is using.
The new user interface offers IT admin control over a user and a group’s activity, authentication settings, sharing and account access.
IT can view the team activity, such as member log-ins and team invitations. The new features also offers the ability to generate downloadable reports.
With an individual user view, IT can see what devices an individual uses to access the service. IT can also remove access to individual devices.
Dropbox has further beefed up authentication controls with the ability to require two-factor authentication. IT can reset passwords and draw a perimeter around the group so no data can be shared outside the corporate walls.
Beyond The Magic Folder
Dropbox built its service on the concept of the “magic folder.” Its next chapter is about Dropbox as a back-end. A new sync API is key to this evolution. The new API means that updates to an app get synced even when a developer goes offline and comes back on again. This means more apps will hook in to the Dropbox service. Combined with the new IT controls, Dropbox sees the company going deeper into the enterprise.
Dropbox sees its differentiator as being the gold-standard for end-user apps. Its challenge will come in where it takes the service next. There are a number of services that offer file sharing. Box, SugarSync and Mozy to name a few. Box now integrates with collaborative offerings such as Jive and VMware’s Project Octopus is part of the company’s larger VMware Horizon suite.
But for now, Dropbox is showing that its service can stand up in the enterprise with robust security and deeper IT visibility and control.
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Pertino today launched a service enabling any small business to go online and create a network that runs entirely in the cloud.
Pertino uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its service making it possible for a business of any size to create secure networks. It connects people anywhere in a manner that not long ago would have cost a small fortune in networking gear. It does this by integrating its software in AWS data centers around the world.
Customers log in to the Pertino service and connect to a data plane that routes them to the right network. A company may set up an internal network or a temporary one with contract workers. People can file share or use the network to offer a remote desktop service. Spin up networks or spin down — it’s all managed through what is called “software defined networking (SDN).”
SDN is the term for how software is abstracting and separating the elements of a network built on hardware. It symbolizes what is happening across the enterprise market. Software is replacing hardware as a means to deliver new services that are cheaper and better than what customers had the option to purchase. It’s similar to almost any market you can think of. You don’t have to go to the store anymore to rent a video. You can get it streamed over Netflix. The disc is becoming obsolete, as will, eventually, the networking gear from a company like Cisco or Juniper.
Pertino, now in a limited beta, has installed its software in data centers around the world. Three years ago, the service would not have been viable, as there just were not as many data centers in operation. In the past two years, AWS has opened new data centers in Sydney, Tokyo, Sao Paolo and the Pacific Northwest. The data center network is almost global. Africa is still an exception with limited data center infrastructure. Pertino is adding new data centers from other services besides AWS to extend its network.
Pertino is one of a number of budding SDN companies. Big Switch Networks and Nicira, now owned by VMware, are serving the enterprise market as are Citrix and a host of other vendors, Cisco included. Most though, use a customer’s corporate data center to build out an SDN infrastructure. Pertino does it all in the cloud, serving primarily the small businesses market. The service is free for up to three people with three devices. For more than three people it costs $10 per person. Aerohive and Meraki, acquired by Cisco, offer cloud networking but through Wi-Fi access points and controllers.
The company does have its limitations. For now Pertino works on Windows 7 with no mobile device support. Company executives say it will offer compatibility with more devices later this year.
Pertino is another example of the disruption happening as software replaces the expensive hardware that a business would once have had to buy from a company like Cisco to set up a robust network.
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Whatever hoops the Linux Foundation had to waddle through to get an MS-signed bootloader for use on Windows 8 hardware, it appears to have worked. Whereas Ubuntu and Fedora already had UEFI Secure Boot support, and there was the Shim bootloader and other fixes for smaller distros, this official solution promises to be more user friendly and universal, albeit with a few caveats that are described by MJG59 at the link below. Once you’re sure you want it, head over to the source with a USB key and do the honors.
