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My list of 10 must have Android business apps.

My list of 10 must have Android business apps. ?

Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is sticking with MySQL

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 28, 2014 1:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: MySQL, Ubuntu
Other Linux distributions are moving to MariaDB for their default database management system, but Ubuntu is standing by Oracle's MySQL. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth explains why.

Ubuntu Unity to bring back local menus

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 27, 2014 6:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
When Canonical introduced its new Ubuntu Unity interface, a major design element was a global, universal menu that all apps would use. Things have changhed. Canonical is switching back to local app menus.

Hello, MS-Android. Good-bye, Windows Phone

Nokia may be making the Android X, X+ and XL handsets, but at the end of the day it was Microsoft's call to produce Android phones. This is bad news for Windows Phone.

VMware partners with Google to bring Windows desktop to Chromebooks

  • CIO Engage; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 20, 2014 9:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
In what first appears to be an unlikely partnership, VMware has joined up with Google to bring the Windows desktop to Google's Linux-powered Chromebooks. Actually, it's the next natural step for each in pushing forward the desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) cloud.

RiskIQ claims malicious Android apps up by almost 400 percent on Google Play

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 20, 2014 1:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android
RiskIQ, an Internet security company, claims that malicious apps have grown by almost 400 percent on Google's Android Play store.

Canonical announces first Ubuntu smartphone manufacturers

The first native Ubuntu smartphones are expected to be in customers' hands in 2014.

Linux job market heats up

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 19, 2014 11:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community
Want a tech job? Then polish up your Linux skills and you will be handsomely rewarded.

OpenDaylight: Open Source Programming to the Software-Defined Network

As hypervisors changed data-center computing, so software-defined networking will change data-center networking. The open source OpenDaylight project is leading the way.

Debunking four myths about Android, Google, and open-source

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 19, 2014 12:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Android
Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux.

2014's top Linux desktops

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 17, 2014 12:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
After years of talk about the Linux desktop becoming important, it finally is. But thanks to Chromebooks and Android PCs, it's not the Linux desktop we expected.

Mozilla clarifies, defends Firefox ad position

Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, defends Firefox's new ad program. Firefox users remain wary.

Top spam-killer server program SpamAssasin gets new release

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 11, 2014 7:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Apache
If you really hate spam, and you run your own e-mail servers, you'll be glad to know that Apache has released a new version of its award-winning, open-source anti-spam program SpamAssassin.

OpenDaylight: Open-source SDN is growing fast

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 10, 2014 7:45 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Developer
With OpenDaylight software-defined networking, rivals and users are united by open source to create software-defined networking for everyone. Believe it or not, the group's already made great progress and more is in store

Rackspace opens the door wide for open-source development

Rackspace, one of OpenStack's founders, takes open source very, very seriously. How seriously? Their "Rackers" can work on open-source projects that compete with the company's own open-source programs.

Why Microsoft is invested in OpenDaylight

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 6, 2014 7:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
What could Microsoft possibly get out of investing in an open-source networking project such as OpenDaylight? A lot.

OpenDaylight, open-source, software-defined networking, gets real with first release

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 5, 2014 6:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
It's not just a good idea anymore, the OpenDaylight Project has released its first open-source software-defined network release: Hydrogen.

It’s Not Just Android: 3 Upcoming Linux Mobile Operating Systems

No matter the OS, HTML5 threads the Linux mobile distro apps together.

Dell buys into the open-source network

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Jan 29, 2014 7:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Dell doesn't wants to be just your data center server provider. In partnership with Cumulus Networks, they want to be your open-source network services provider as well.

Android PCs and other Windows-alternative desktops are for real

By year's end I expect Android-based PCs and Chromebooks to have disrupted the Windows PC market.Oh, and does does AMD, Intel, HP, and Lenovo. Here's why.

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