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When people are screaming, "I won't use the soft unless it's open sourced", they actually mean the following "I won't to use the soft unless is free and readily supported by authors". People just forget that open source means that the source code is open and they are more than welcome TO READ, IMPROVE, and CONTRIBUTE BACK to the community. Those, who make the most noise don't give a shit about the community.  They care only about themselves. If they run into an issue, they shout "Give me the f'ing author! Let him fix his junk!" People are nuts. They don't appreciate someone's time.  Didn't you want the free and open source software? F'ing take it! It's open. Check it out from the version control system, change it to your liking and rebuild it. If you want to be nice to the community, become a contributor and submit it back to the code repository.  Some licenses don'... (more)

Dialogic Announces Sponsorship of Project DiaStar(TM) and Availability of the DiaStar(TM) Server (DSS)

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Dialogic Corporation ("Dialogic"), a global provider of world-class products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, today introduces Project DiaStar(TM), an open source project sponsored by Dialogic to create software that allows open source developers to access portions of the Dialogic((R)) product portfolio to bring advanced communications technology to demanding open source markets. The open source community is invited to participate in this project at www.projectdiastar.org. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090831/NY68052) In conjunction with Project DiaStar, Dialogic is also announcing the DiaStar(TM) Server (DSS), which is the first available software developed from Project DiaStar. The DiaStar(TM) Server (DSS) acts as multi-function peripheral that can be implemented as a media gateway, ... (more)

Brightcove Seeks Alternative to Traditional Content Management; Turns to Acquia to Support Drupal Build

Acquia, the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system, today announced that leading online video platform, Brightcove, has selected Drupal as its content management solution of choice and is working with Acquia for complete support of the firm’s many Drupal Web properties. Brightcove is leveraging Acquia Drupal, a packaged collection of Drupal essentials, to rollout websites quickly and cost effectively to engage with its community. Seeking a better way to introduce and manage dynamic content on its corporate site as well as support developer and community portals, Brightcove chose Acquia to serve as its guide to social publishing with Drupal. With over 4,000 modules, an active developer community and the ability to better address localization, user-generated content and the move to lower-cost cloud-based hosting, Drupal was a natural fit for Brightcove... (more)

2Checkout.com, Inc. Increases Flexibility with a Back Office Admin API

2Checkout.com, Inc. (2Checkout), a leading global payments solutions provider, has added an application programming interface (API) to its robust e-commerce system for online retailers to immediately integrate. 2Checkout’s back office admin API is a publicly accessible set of routines designed to allow existing clients, as well as developers interested in marketing unique 2Checkout cart solutions, the ability to access account, product and online sales information without logging in to 2Checkout. According to Senior Vice President - Chief Marketing Officer, Chris Daly, “The back office admin API provides a new layer of flexibility for online retailers using 2Checkout, by enabling users to remotely interact and gather reconciliation and product level data from their account without logging in to gather data from our admin area and manually exporting records back to t... (more)

Black Duck Boosts Suite Usability and Performance With Enhancements to Protex

WALTHAM, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/10/10 -- Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced enhancements to Protex, the code analysis engine that is a core component of the Black Duck Suite, a comprehensive platform for managing the use of open source in a multi-source development process. Protex version 5.1, available immediately, provides faster, more precise code search capability with significant performance boosts. Enhancements include: -- Faster -- for enterprise users running code scans and analysis on very large data sets, performance enhancements will speed searches on computer-intensive activities -- such as calculating a Bill of Materials for a complex software application -- by up to a factor of five. -- Improved search -- The ... (more)

Digium® Invites Small- to Mid-Sized Businesses to Enter Extreme Phone Makeover Contest

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced the Extreme Phone Makeover contest, allowing businesses to nominate their company for a complete VoIP phone system transformation. By telling their story about why they need a new phone system, the most deserving business will win an Extreme Phone Makeover valued up to $10,000. The winner will receive Digium’s innovative Switchvox Unified Communications system and Polycom phones. Businesses may apply at www.extremephonemakeover.com. The contest was inspired by Huntsville Flight Center, whose communications system was so outdated that it was impacting their ability to service customers in a timely manner. API Digital, an authorized Digium reseller, assisted with the network assessment and installation. As part of its Extreme Phone Makeover, their phone system was upgraded to Digium's Switchvox SMB, the full-featu... (more)

Enea Announces Comprehensive Support for LSI Axxia Communication Processor Family

KISTA, SWEDEN -- (Marketwire) -- 02/11/10 -- PRESS RELEASE Enea Announces Comprehensive Support for LSI Axxia Communication Processor Family Enea OSE Multicore Edition RTOS, Enea Optima Tools and Packet Processing Framework Simplify Multicore Development STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 11 February, 2010 - Enea (NASDAQ OMX Nordic: ENEA) today announced that Enea OSE® Multicore Edition, the award-winning, hybrid- kernel realtime operating system (RTOS) (www.enea.com/ose), will be the center piece of its comprehensive support for the new LSI™ Axxia™ Communication Processor family. This integrated multicore-based offering, including Enea OSE, Enea® Optima and Enea's packet processing framework will simplify data plane acceleration for OEMs building a wide- range of wireless applications, including video streaming, web browsing and high-quality digital voice. "The new Axxia Commun... (more)

Federal Computer Week Honors CollabNet's Guy Martin With Federal 100 Award

BRISBANE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/11/10 -- CollabNet, the leader in distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that Guy Martin is a 2010 recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award, which annually acknowledges "individuals in government and industry who made significant contributions to the federal information technology community" in the previous year. Martin, a CollabNet employee, is the lead community manager for Forge.mil, the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) collaborative software development environment. The DoD's Forge.mil initiative is based on CollabNet TeamForge, the leading application lifecycle management platform for distributed software development teams, and CollabNet Subversion, the leading version control and software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams. Rob Vietmeyer, c... (more)

Ankündigung der Cloud-Computing-Lösung Cyclone™ von SGI für technische Anwendungen

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), ein globales Spitzenunternehmen für HPC- und Rechenzentrumslösungen, hat heute die sofortige Verfügbarkeit von Cyclone angekündigt, dem ersten On-Demand-Dienst in großem Umfang für speziell auf technische Anwendungen zugeschnittene Cloud-Computing-Lösungen. Bisher haben sich Cloud-Lösungen hauptsächlich auf wichtige geschäftliche Anwendungen wie CRM-, ERP-, E-Mail- und weitere Datenbankprogramme konzentriert. Cyclone profitiert von den über zwanzigjährigen Erfahrungen von SGI im Bereich Hochleistungsrechnen (HPC, von englisch high-performance computing) und wendet sich speziell an die wachsenden technischen Märkte in Wissenschaft und Ingenieurswesen, die mit hochleistungsfähigen Computerausrüstungen im Hardware-, Software- und Netzwerkbereich rasche Erfolge erzielen möchten. Cyclone unterstützt anfänglich eine Reihe von führenden Anwendungspartne... (more)

Sauce Labs Announces Sauce RC (Remote Control) 1.0 for Cross-Browser Functional Testing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/12/10 -- Sauce Labs (http://www.saucelabs.com), the Selenium Company, today announced the release of Sauce RC (Remote Control) 1.0 -- a commercially supported Selenium distribution that is easy to install, runs on all the latest browser releases, is available as a free download, and comes with access to expert support directly from the people who built Selenium. Selenium RC is part of the popular (more than 2.5 million downloads) Selenium functional testing framework for web applications. Being a developer-focused tool, Selenium RC requires a certain effort and skill to install, configure and maintain. Sauce RC provides all the power of Selenium RC, and makes installation and configuration a snap. Configuration of Sauce RC is done via a simple web interface, which allows for powerful remote administration of test servers. "S... (more)

Shaping the Future of Mobile

The Symbian Foundation today revealed that ideas submitted to the Symbian Ideas web site are already being realised as platform enhancements and innovative applications. The Symbian Ideas web site (http://ideas.symbian.org) is integral to Symbian as an open organisation and an open platform. Now anyone can propose an idea for enhancing the Symbian mobile experience, however large or small. Through the web site, Symbian and its community can debate the usefulness of each idea and cast votes to select the most-needed and desirable ideas for implementation by developers from within the community. “The Symbian Ideas web site is the focal point of a three-way conversation between users, developers and the foundation. It provides developers and device creators with the opportunity to create applications that meet consumers’ express wishes, to make improvements to the worl... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...
Nicolas Fierro is CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions. He is a programmer, technologist, and operations dev who has worked with Ethereum and blockchain since 2014. His knowledge in blockchain dates to when he performed dev ops services to the Ethereum Foundation as one the privileged few developers to work with the original core team in Switzerland.
Enterprises have taken advantage of IoT to achieve important revenue and cost advantages. What is less apparent is how incumbent enterprises operating at scale have, following success with IoT, built analytic, operations management and software development capabilities - ranging from autonomous vehicles to manageable robotics installations. They have embraced these capabilities as if they were Silicon Valley startups.
If a machine can invent, does this mean the end of the patent system as we know it? The patent system, both in the US and Europe, allows companies to protect their inventions and helps foster innovation. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be set to disrupt the patent system as we know it. This talk will examine how AI may change the patent landscape in the years to come. Furthermore, ways in which companies can best protect their AI related inventions will be examined from both a US and...
Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also receive...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
René Bostic is the Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. Her strengths and core competencies include a proven record of accomplishments in consensus building at all levels to assess, plan, and implement enterprise and cloud computing solutions. René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a m...
Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner's latest report on the hype cycle of emerging technologies, blockchain has just passed the peak of their hype cycle curve. If you read the news articles about it, one would think it has taken over the technology world. No disruptive technology is without its challenges and potential impediments t...