An anonymous reader writes to point out reports that Asus is “working on a new laptop that will include Kinect gestures and will be compatible with Windows 8,” and adds, “What does this mean for the consumer? Portable gestures in Windows 8!” Wired has an article based on the same report, which mentions also the ...
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Medical Daily: “Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile internet networks by carrying wearable sensors. According to researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the novel sensors could create new ultra high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base ...
The latest version of the Linux kernel was released on Sunday, offering not just a host of bug fixes but also new features designed for multicore environments. Most notably, tapping technology contributed by Google, Linux version 2.6.35 includes Receive Packet Steering and Receive Flow Steering features that help to spread... ...
Thanks to heavy contributions from search giant Google, new Linux 2.6.35 kernel offers improvements in networking capabilities and performance. ...
Linus has released the 2.6.35 kernel with no further prepatches after 2.6.35-rc6, as he had suggested might be possible. ...
Back in March an announcement came out of NVIDIA as they were getting ready to launch the GeForce GTX 400 "Fermi" graphics cards that they would be dropping support for the xf86-video-nv driver. The xf86-video-nv driver really didn't provide much of a feature set and was far behind the Nouveau... ...
Two of the most notable trends in systems management are DevOps and the related and partially redundant Agile Operations movement. ...
There will always be a place for relational databases, but non-relational solutions are proving to be fast, flexible, and scalable for many tasks. ...
The rush to the clouds will result in an industry shakeout for all of today's hosting companies. ...
Latest forecast from IT market research Gartner projects that businesses will continue their transition to service-oriented computing over the next four years. ...
Channel Register reports that Novell is launching the SUSE Gallery. "It has been a year since Novell launched its SUSE Appliance Program, which offers a set of online tools, dubbed SUSE Studio, for spinning up software appliances based on its SUSE Linux distro ...
Full PulseAudio nirvana entails digging into the project in depth, but you can at least get your feet wet over the weekend, directing and even multicasting audio between Linux machines on your local network. ...
About 38 percent of technology workers in the Technisource survey said they believed the economy is getting stronger. That's up 6 percent from the first quarter of this year. ...
In the Linux desktop world, the graphical user interface is here to stay. ...
A Cambridge, Mass.-based compay called Backupify is pitching IT admins on a cloud-based backup service for Google Apps, offering an additional safeguard to augment Google's own storage. ...
Sugar CRM may have open source technology at its core, but with the latest release of its customer-relationship management platform offers two different interfaces for the commercial and community versions. ...
Since late 2009, talk of how Google's Chrome OS is being positioned to "take on" Microsoft Windows has been promoted by individuals who I believe have no idea what they're talking about. ...
Blue Water Embedded announced a royalty-free graphical user interface (GUI) development framework for embedded devices, including those running Linux. The Prism Runtime Framework is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that incorporates Prism Micro, a GUI toolkit for constrained color-depth targets, and Prism Insight, a Linux-compatible desktop GUI design and resource editing... ...
Less than one week after the release of version 2.6.9 of GIMP, the GIMP project has issued the tenth point update to the 2.6.x branch of GIMP to fix a bug that caused the open source image editing tool to crash when clicking on a scroll bar... ...
The fragmentation of Linux has become a hot topic in recent weeks as industry leaders debate how the community can collaborate to compete against single, vertical operating systems without creating an ecosystem that pulls the community in too many directions at once to be truly effective... ...