PARIS, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Wengo today published a Firefox extension for
its Wengophone. It comes in Mac, Linux and Windows versions and is available
for download at http://www.wengo.com/.
The Wengophone is a software tool from Wengo that allows you to communicate
free of charge on the Internet -- using Voice, SMS, Instant messaging and
Video.
This extension, which is fully integrated in the Firefox Web browser,
features the key functionalities of the Wengophone -- telephone and chat --
and also enables click-to-dial, a technique that lets you use Wengo to call
any of your contacts, or any number on a web page, by launching a
conversation with a single click.
Installing the extension is simple: once you have downloaded it using Firefox
1.5, just drag it into the Firefox window and it will appear in the
navigation bar.
Just like the Firefox browser, the Wengoph... (more)
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- e frontier America Inc.,
announced the release of the Linux version of its popular 2D animation and
cartoon creation software, Anime Studio 5 Pro. Anime Studio 5 Pro is the
professional level version of Anime Studio 5 and the first offering of Linux
software by e frontier. Anime Studio Pro was created for experienced
animators and hobbyists looking for an efficient alternative to creating
animations. Anime Studio Pro is tested and available on the popular Linux
distributions Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora Core and others.
Anime Studio 5 Pro utilizes a unique and powerful "bone rigging" system
normally found in 3D graphic software. This system streamlines workflow and
reduces production time for the animator. The software's drawing and
manipulation tools can be used with digital photos, drawings, movies and
audio files to easily... (more)
Related Links:
Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply
floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the
experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000
experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time
Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three
prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me
primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would
go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on
that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a
Linux desktop before.
There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for
a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing
Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all i... (more)
Related Links: Linus Torvalds Isn't the "Father of Linux"
"Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the
Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus."
Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk
sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the
sensationalist claims this morning that he isn't, after all, the inventor of
Linux.
"They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had
gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of
operating systems on their own during the off season. But when they started
with Linux (which they originally called Freax - they do feel like outsiders,
you know, and that's a whole sad story in itself), they felt that they could
no longer just let it languish in obscurity. They started to look for a
front-man, and since Santa Claus is fr... (more)
In an open letter to the OS community, Darl McBride writes: 'The most
controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the
ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM
alleging that SCO's proprietary Unix code has been illegally copied into the
free Linux operating system...' Read the full letter here:
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is
the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a ... (more)
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
Kevin Mack's Top 10 Linus SCO quotes [thanks to Dee-Ann LeBlanc for the link]
10. Not About IP"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP
rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights
blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"9. Custody Battle"SCO is
claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the
earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical
equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is
probably all over Linux." 8. Lottery
"We have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that
seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might
add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US
legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow ... (more)
In this article you will learn how to turn a blank CD and an inexpensive USB
keydrive into a powerful, portable, take-along operating system complete with
modern applications like Firefox, a Web server, and multimedia tools. All
this can be done using free Open Source Linux software.
We'll start with the latest version of a distribution called Damn Small Linux
(hereafter referred to as DSL) and work through the steps of getting and
"burning" an image, booting it, setting up networking and applications, and
saving customizations and files to the USB media. You can do all of this even
with an old PC from yesteryear, turning it into something snappy and new. One
possible outcome is what you see in Figure 1.
The resulting bootable CD and USB keydrive storage work great without having
to install, partition, reformat, or even modify the hard drive on the host
system. This... (more)
The 12 reasons Andreessen - he of the all-time great quote: "The Valley is
going to save the Valley" - came up at the conference with were as follows:
"The Internet is powered by open source."
"The Internet is the carrier for open source."
"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on
Intel."
"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't
software companies."
"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
"It's free."
... (more)
While a hybrid cloud can ease that transition, designing and deploy that hybrid cloud still offers challenges for organizations concerned about lack of available cloud skillsets within their organization. Managed service providers offer a unique opportunity to fill those gaps and get organizations of all sizes on a hybrid cloud that meets their comfort level, while delivering enhanced benefits for cost, efficiency, agility, mobility, and elasticity.
Isomorphic Software is the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications. We develop, market, and support the SmartClient & Smart GWT HTML5/Ajax platform, combining the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simplicity and reach of the open web.
With staff in 10 timezones, Isomorphic provides a global network of services related to our technology, with offerings ranging from turnkey application development to SLA-backed enterprise support.
Leading global enterprises use Isomorphic technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, developing & deploying sophisticated business applications with unprecedented ease and simplicity.
DevOps has long focused on reinventing the SDLC (e.g. with CI/CD, ARA, pipeline automation etc.), while reinvention of IT Ops has lagged. However, new approaches like Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Containerization, Operations Analytics, and ML/AI are driving a resurgence of IT Ops. In this session our expert panel will focus on how these new ideas are [putting the Ops back in DevOps orbringing modern IT Ops to DevOps].
Darktrace is the world's leading AI company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System is the first non-consumer application of machine learning to work at scale, across all network types, from physical, virtualized, and cloud, through to IoT and industrial control systems. Installed as a self-configuring cyber defense platform, Darktrace continuously learns what is ‘normal' for all devices and users, updating its understanding as the environment changes.
Enterprises are striving to become digital businesses for differentiated innovation and customer-centricity. Traditionally, they focused on digitizing processes and paper workflow. To be a disruptor and compete against new players, they need to gain insight into business data and innovate at scale. Cloud and cognitive technologies can help them leverage hidden data in SAP/ERP systems to fuel their businesses to accelerate digital transformation success.
Concerns about security, downtime and latency, budgets, and general unfamiliarity with cloud technologies continue to create hesitation for many organizations that truly need to be developing a cloud strategy. Hybrid cloud solutions are helping to elevate those concerns by enabling the combination or orchestration of two or more platforms, including on-premise infrastructure, private clouds and/or third-party, public cloud services. This gives organizations more comfort to begin their digital transformation without a complete overhaul of their existing infrastructure - serving as a sort of "mi...
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