I know from personal experience that there are very few federal organizations that are not already using open-source applications or are evaluating them. Recent survey data suggests that at least 55 percent of U.S. federal agencies are using open source now. I suspect the number is actually much higher. The genie is out of the [...]
Google won a bit of market share of U.S. Internet users from its top rivals in June, new statistics show.
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Google’s user tally increased from 127.6 million in May to 128 million in June, according to Nielsen Online. Meanwhile, Microsoft dipped a bit from 123.3 million to 123 million and Yahoo dropped from 115.6 [...]
Earlier Monday, I spoke with my colleague Declan McCullagh on the CNET News Daily Debrief about where the tech agenda fits in with the two campaigns. Declan’s back from covering the Democratic and Republican conventions for us where he had an extended opportunity to chat about technology policy with regulars from both parties. You [...]
Hangout.net is yet another virtual world. Kids can design their own virtual pad and adorn it and themselves with real-life products. These items reside in their online home, and all link back to online stores that sell them.
iThryv was pitched as a banking site for kids. Like the game Spore, you start out small [...]
In March, Radar Networks launched Twine, an application that organizes information and connects people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos, and photos. Along with Metaweb’s Freebase, Powerset (sold to Microsoft), Hakia, Reuters’ Calias, AdaptiveBlue and a few other start-ups, Radar Networks is trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web. [...]
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According to HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou, the smartphone manufacturer plans to release at least three Android devices in 2009. Keep in mind, this number includes the HTC Magic, which was announced at GSMA for the European market, so we’re looking at a minimum of two more.
With Samsung, Garmin, Sony Ericsson, and [...]
One cool thing we figured out in this experiment is that you could easily use Galaxy to create a federated SOA governance policy by sticking instances both in your enterprise and in the cloud and letting them sync up securely.
Components we need to run Galaxy on EC2:
galaxy-ee-web-standalone-1.0.jar–(enterprise version of Galaxy)
apache-maven-2.0.9-bin.tar.bz2–(Maven repository for artifacts)
jdk-6u7-linux-i586.rpm–(Java JDK)
wget–(file [...]
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Among big Internet companies, the news wasn’t much better. eBay led declines, with shares down 5.54 percent to $17.89 per share at the end of the day. That’s more than $1 below the company’s previous 52-week low. eBay said it was laying off 1,000, [...]
In addition to Internet telephony, Skype wants to make it easier to switch among IM and phone conversations, to place calls to non-Skype users’ mobile phones and landlines, and to jump on board its video chats, which, the company admitted, most users either weren’t using or didn’t know existed.
Skype users, too, are calling for more [...]
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Symantec already uses AppStream’s technology in its Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) Pro. Using application streaming enables end users to perform functions by accessing parts of a software program over the network as needed, without having the program fully installed on the client computer.
Symantec is acquiring AppStream,Silver pendants, a maker of application streaming [...]
