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Project Cauã: revolutionising IT for the masses
Project Cauã, the Free and Open Source Software and Hardware (FOSSH) project conceived by Linux International executive director Jon ?Maddog? Hall to make it possible for people to make a living as a systems administrator, is set to launch in Brazil next month.
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Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?
Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercialising Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.
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Cray integrates Hadoop Big Data analytics with supercomputers
Cray is bringing integrated open source Hadoop Big Data analytics software to its supercomputing platforms.
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Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?
If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.
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Startup touts private cloud as a service
You can buy pretty much anything in IT today "as a service," and now it's come to this: 2011 startup company named Metacloud claims to be one of the first to offer a cloud-based service of cloud computing resources.
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France Télécom CEO charged with conspiracy to defraud
France Télécom's CEO Stéphane Richard has been charged with conspiracy to defraud, a Paris court announced Wednesday. The charge relates to alleged activities before he joined the company.
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Study finds voice-controlled interfaces distract drivers
When talking or texting, drivers take longer to hit the brakes -- even if they're not hitting tiny keyboards, researchers at the University of Utah have found.
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Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead
The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards.
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Tibco Software acquires event processing specialist StreamBase Systems
Tibco Software has added streaming capabilities to its event-processing portfolio with the acquisition of StreamBase Systems.
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Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort
Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.
