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What a #copycat: Facebook apes Twitter with hashtags
Hashtags, the popular tool used on Twitter and in an array of other social sites to surface content around specific topics #likeso, are coming to Facebook.
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Waze could drive better social tools at Google, experts say
Waze's crowdsourced traffic and navigation app is attractive to Google, which is said to be a serious suitor for the app, because of the wealth of mapping data it offers. But Waze's biggest draw may be social, some experts say.
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service.
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Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.
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Cisco Catalyst combines wired, wireless and SDN into one switch
Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments.
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Juniper planning open source alternative to Cisco, VMware SDN controllers
Juniper is working with other industry players on an open source-based controller for software-defined networks (SDN) that would be an alternative to proprietary offerings from VMware and Cisco.
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Rackspace switches over to OpenStack
In what will be one of the first large scale OpenStack commercial deployments, hosting company Rackspace is moving its server and other hosting services to the OpenStack API (application programming interface).
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IBM showcases incentives package at PartnerWorld conference
To help its partners generate more cloud business, IBM has introduced new training, tools and a financial incentive package at its PartnerWorld conference, being held this week in New Orleans.
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Update: Gowalla to shut down as executive team joins Facebook
Location sharing company Gowalla has confirmed it will shut down its services in January, and that its developers will join Facebook's team in California, but Facebook is not acquiring Gowalla?s user data.
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Facebook might be working with HTC on Android-based Facebook phone
Facebook is working with HTC to build an Android-based smartphone with Facebook social networking services at its core, according to an All Things D report.
