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Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone
Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen.
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Mozilla says Firefox OS will appear on high-end phones
The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said.
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Open Data Centre Alliance: Virtual machines inching to portability
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).
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Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services
Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.
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HP to announce Project Moonshot hyperscale servers next week
Hewlett-Packard next week will unveil a class of hyperscale servers as part of Project Moonshot, the company's attempt to build densely packed low-power servers that can scale performance quickly.
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MapR brings Hadoop support to Ubuntu
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has announced a new partnership with Canonical to package the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu.
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Official Twitter app for Ubuntu Touch cancelled
A Canonical software engineer told a public mailing list on Friday that there would be no official Twitter app released with Ubuntu Touch.
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China plans to standardise on localised Ubuntu
China has picked Canonical's Linux-based Ubuntu OS as the reference architecture to establish a standardised operating system in the nation that could end up in PCs, servers, tablets and smartphones.
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Dell, Canonical announce new Ubuntu 12.04 support for servers
Dell's 12th-generation PowerEdge server line now supports the use of Ubuntu 12.04 across the board, thanks to a new agreement between the hardware maker and developer Canonical that provides Ubuntu Advantage services to Dell's customers.
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Rackspace enhances private cloud offering
Rackspace, the major public cloud provider, is not ignoring private clouds.
