Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Firefox 4 lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9; Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is bogus

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Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9
Julie Bort: Chrome 10 kicks the butts of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 in my benchmark tests. Read More


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Linus Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus"
Jon Brodkin: Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has said new claims that Android violates the Linux license are "totally bogus."  Read More

New Linux kernel goes faster
Linux kernel 2.6.28 has been released, bringing performance improvements Read More

Open Flow Seeks To Change The Networking World
Alan Shimel: A new foundation was announced yesterday to foster a new approach to networking.  The founding members of the foundation are: Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo. Read More

Amazon, Android and Open Source
Alan Shimel: Amazon's app store: a bit of turn around is fair play to Google. Read More


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This Webcast will probe the business-critical challenges swirling around the fast-evolving mobile infrastructure challenges most companies face. Register Now

Android is hot…and getting hotter.
Phil Odence: Along with its meteoric rise in popularity, the platform is generating some legal heat. The latest is about Android copyright and licensing. Welcome to the gotchas of open source. Read More

CloudStack, OpenStack, Here A Cloud, There A Stack, It's All Open To Me
Alan Shimel: Cloud.com releases a new version of its new open source Cloud OS. Read More

Lawyer behind Android infringement claim has Microsoft ties
Joe Brockmeier: Edward J. Naughton, is out promoting the idea that Android violates the GPL over on Huffington Post. But Naughton seems to be hiding his ties to Microsoft. Read More

Winning the Enterprise
Stephen Spector: Latest Gartner data on open source usage in the enterprise shows 46% using open source and other surprising statistics. Read More


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Control & Automate Application Performance Management.
This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More

Red Hat Obfuscation is a Tempest in a Teapot
Stephen Walli: I encountered another reference in the mainstream analysis to Red Hat "obfuscating" their work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This really is a tempest in a teapot. Read More

Is This Town Big Enough For Two Open Source WAFs?
Alan Shimel: Art of Defence's distributed open source firewall takes a different tack. I previously looked at IronBee the open source WAF project from Qualys and Ivan Ristic. Read More

Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement
Ms. Smith: Microsoft claims that Android violates Microsoft patents, yet it hasn't sued Google. Instead it sued Motorola and now Barnes & Noble. Read More

CTIA 2011: Up close with Kyocera Echo dual-screen smartphone
At CTIA 2011, Keith Shaw gets an overview of Kyocera's new Echo smart phone, a dual-display Android smartphone that will be available for Sprint customers on April 17. Read More

Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation
Google took a slap at Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the software giant's patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble's Android-based e-reader stifles innovation. Read More



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SLIDESHOWS

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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