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ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE® today announced from its user conference, SUSECon, the release of SUSE Manager 1.7 the latest version of its systems management solution for enterprise Linux environments. SUSE Manager's capabilities help enterprises to comprehensively manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with a single centralized solution. Version 1.7 includes flexibility and compliance enhancements that help customers grow...
GAYDON, England, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Livio today revealed a demonstration of Livio Connected mobile phone applications operating on an Intel® Atom(TM)( )processor-based platform running Tizen IVI at the Automotive Linux Summit, a global event hosted by the Linux Foundation. Tizen provides a powerful environment for application developers, based on HTML5. Designed for automotive OEMs, Tizen IVI allows developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write...
SAN RAMON,Calif., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, today announced that its component development will be moving to all-new Alliance-sponsored public open-source community projects. All the code specified for GENIVI compliance is, and will continue to be comprised of open-source licensed...
BOSTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Design East -- Timesys Corporation (http://www.timesys.com), provider of the industry's easiest-to-use and affordable embedded Linux products and professional services, today introduced the availability of its award-winning LinuxLink framework for development on the Xilinx® Zynq(TM)-7000 All Programmable SoC in the ZC702 Evaluation Kit based on the Linux 3.3 kernel. Timesys LinuxLink for the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC represents the...
HELSINKI, September 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ships in BMW iDrive to Power SD/SDXC and USB Connectivity Tuxera Inc. the leading provider of interoperable file systems and connectivity software for Android, Linux, QNX, Windows Automotive and other platforms, today announced Alpine Electronics has selected Tuxera file systems to bring seamless connectivity between SD/SDXC and USB storages and the car infotainment system. Tuxera is now shipping in Alpine-manufactured BMW...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Storage startup Inktank announced on Tuesday that it has secured a $1 million investment from billionaire Linux mogul Mark Shuttleworth. The investment, which is in the form of a convertible note, will be used to bring Inktank’s open-source distributed file system Ceph to cloud computing. “Mark Shuttleworth is an open source visionary, and the Inktank team is delighted to accept his support for Ceph,” said Bryan...
BIRMINGHAM, England, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Q3 Internet is a reseller of shared web hosting and Linux cloud servers and a GlobalSign SSL provider - - Nearly one third (27%) of companies don't know who hosts their website - 53% of companies don't know why they chose their current hosting provider - Nearly half of all respondents (45%) were unsure whether their data and website files...
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE today announced the general availability of SUSE® Cloud, its first commercially supported private cloud solution, at CloudOpen 2012. Powered by OpenStack(TM), SUSE Cloud is an automated cloud management platform that enables the rapid deployment and easy ongoing management of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private cloud. Backed by SUSE's 20 years of experience commercializing open source projects and delivering global,...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- [VMworld 2012 trade show booth 2201] - Fusion-io today announced that its Fusion ioTurbine virtualization caching software now offers intelligent application caching for the Linux guest operating system (OS), in addition to support for the Microsoft Windows guest operating system. Fusion ioTurbine software delivers improved VM density and cost savings in VMware environments, including those that require vMotion, enabling customers...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Linux Foundation plays host to an overwhelming majority of companies that rely on open-source software. The foundation provides a neutral ground for companies and users to discuss and collaborate on Linux’s development, with companies such as IBM, Google, HP, Oracle, and a long list of other well-known techs involved. And now, Twitter is joining the Linux foray, making its commitment to open source a little more official....
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Google Chrome is a freeware web browser that was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and fully released on December 11, 2008 as a standalone. As of November 2012, usage share is 35 percent worldwide. A mobile version for Android was released on November 28, 2012. When Google first thought of developing a web browser, chairman Eric Schmidt opposed, but after hiring several developers from Mozilla who built and demonstrated Chrome, he changed his mind....
Computer software is the collection of computer programs and related data that give the instructions to a computer. Different from hardware, software is intangible, which means that it cannot be touched. Some examples of computer software include: word processors, video games, operating systems, and device drivers. Historically, the software industry is much like that of other technological industries in that it has grown from a few prototypes from different engineers to one application that...
