Mobile Payments War Heats Up, Starbucks Sets the Standards
| August 23rdThere’s a huge chance that you’ve noticed a trend on just released or soon-to-be released smartphones. And I’m not talking about 4G. More smartphones are coming pre-packaged with mobile payment capabilities, either via apps or Near Field Communication...»
Awesome Hover Bike Lets You Fly Like a Jedi Warrior!
| August 23rdIf there’s one thing from the Star Wars movies that I could to bring to life, it would have to be Darth Vadar’s light sabre – to this day, it’s still by far and away the coolest sci-fi...»
Sqrrl Makes the Case for Another NoSQL: Accumulo
| August 22ndThe Secret Habit of the World’s Best Performing SaaS Teams
| August 22ndThose of us who manage project teams know the value of predictable, repeatable, and high-quality project execution. When we don’t meet that bar, a cascade of side effects occurs, ranging from poor team morale to a loss of...»
Piston Cloud Unveils Free, Easy OpenStack Distro For Internal IT
| August 22ndPiston Cloud’s flagship offering is Enterprise OpenStack, a tweaked up distribution of the increasingly popular open-source cloud platform. The only problem is that if you don’t happen to be deploying on a very large scale configuring all...»


Game on! Ubuntu comes to Alienware
| April 5thUbuntu has been available on Dell business laptops for quite awhile, including the recently introduced XPS 13 developer edition. A few weeks ago we announced that we were expanding our Ubuntu certification
...»Engine Yard Adds Node.js Support
| August 21stEngine Yard is one of the most widely used developer-oriented PaaS solutions out there, but up until now it could only run Rails and PHP. In the next 30 days the platform will be receiving
...»AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports Python Applications
| August 21stOkay, here’s the good news for the Python developer community! Being the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications that run on the familiar Apache HTTP server...»
Telerik Announces Full Support for New Visual Studio 2012
| August 21stTelerik, a leading provider of end-to-end software application, lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced that it will now provide full support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Telerik revealed that it has moved swiftly and in...»
Springpad and Snooth Make Fine Foodie Pairings
| August 21stThe beauty of curation is the context that builds around your collections, and it’s a social development made popular by the likes of Pinterest, Evernote and to some extent Facebook. One company was built with contextualized curation in...»
Google Input Tools Adds Arabic Script Translation
| August 20thAs part of its efforts to make the internet more accessible for those who use other languages besides English, Google has just unveiled a new tool which can automatically translate Roman-character based Arabic (known as Arabizi) into...»


Redmonk on Developers and Project Sputnik
| May 9thToday at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit here in Oakland I grabbed sometime with Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. It was Stephen who originally brought up the idea of creating a Dell laptop running Ubuntu targeted
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