Matias Vangsnes

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Cognosys Red Herring Asia Top 100 Finalist & winner at NASSCOM Cloud Summit 2012 showcases multi vendor cloud …

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

Cognosys Technologies, Red Herring Asia 2012 Top 100 finalist and a winner of Top 5 Innovative Cloud products showcase at NASSCOM Cloud and Mobility Summit 2012, released the latest version of Cloud Director in 21 languages, best multi vendor cloud management suite offering not only Single Click Deployment, Auto Scaling on Business Rules, Diagnostics Monitoring [...]

Linux fans rejoice: Dell XPS 13 will come with Ubuntu

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Dell must have read my story on “What will it take to make Linux popular?”, agreed with Linus Torvalds’ initial thoughts, then thought that it might be a good idea to publicly announce “Project Sputnik”, which despite the name doesn’t have anything to do with spacecraft like Dell would want you to believe. (Okay, so [...]

Ubuntu Turns Websites Into WebApps

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Canonical has developed a feature for Ubuntu Linux allowing it to run web pages as though they were desktop applications, something the company calls Ubuntu WebApps. The feature, announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon this week, is a further step towards integrating web services into the desktop, something companies such [...]

Dell to Offer Ubuntu Linux Preinstalled on XPS 13 Ultrabooks

Friday, July 20th, 2012

July 20th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun Tweet Pin It If you’re the sort of computer user who wants to be different, but you don’t want to lay out the big money that the MacBook costs you might want to check out Dell’s latest offering. Dell has announced that it’s offering an XPS 13 Ultrabook with [...]

Dell Gives Linux Laptops Another Chance

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton Geroge, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall. The laptop will come pre-loaded with Ubuntu, [...]

iOS In-App Purchases Hacked, Content Available For Free

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

 Actually, for “hacked” read “redirected”, as a Russian malcontent shows off a simple DNS change that can give Apple users free content from many iPhone and iPad apps, all without the need for jailbreaking or advanced cracking skills.  Go Redirect To Jail Annoyed over having to constantly pay for downloaded content in games and apps [...]

Benefits of Using WordPress Themes

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

If you are looking to get great looking design for your site using wordpress themes, there is no better destination than TemplateMela. July 11, 2012: If you are an online merchant, you should understand the importance of  having a visually pleasing website. Attractive presentation of products and services offered is must for getting customers interested [...]

Preparing for the DNS changer virus

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

TUCSON – If you suddenly lost internet access Monday, it’s likely because your computer is infected with the DNS changer virus. The bug originally hit more than a year ago. It redirected computers to fake servers and even disabled antivirus software. The FBI arrested the hackers last year and set up special computers to keep [...]

Sabayon 9: One Linux Distro, Three Desktop Flavors

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

With all the attention that tends to get heaped on Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora, it can be easy to forget about all the many other worthy contenders out there offering users a world of free choice. Sabayon Linux is one of those lesser-known contenders that has nevertheless attracted a significant following of [...]

Free, Basic Inbound Marketing with WordPress and JetPack

Friday, June 29th, 2012

If you are a small business without a large budget for marketing, it can be difficult to implement an inbound marketing strategy. Say you’re new to the idea of “inbound” marketing and you have little analytical data – you’re not a big fish in the pond but you want to make some waves. While it won’t [...]

New Asus PC Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

The announcements may be coming fast and furious out of Google I/O today, but the Nexus Q and other products unveiled there aren’t the only exciting new technologies to appear on the horizon this week. One of particular interest for Linux fans, in fact, was quietly rolled out by Asus recently, apparently without any fanfare [...]

A Venerable Internet Technology May Offer Some Relief for Carrier Woes

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Secretary of Homeland Security: cybercrime as big a threat as Al Qaeda Elise Ackerman Contributor A Closer Look at Google Public DNS Elise Ackerman Contributor Telecom Rising? How the Communications Revolution Could Finally Lift Carrier Stocks Elise Ackerman Contributor Confessions of a botnet herder Elise Ackerman Contributor Page 2 of 2 As Nominum’s chief scientist, [...]

New to Linux? Zorin OS 6 Makes the Transition Easy

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

As the dawn of the Windows 8 era approaches, there are more reasons than ever for longtime Windows users to consider switching to Linux. Making that switch has never been easier thanks to supremely user-friendly options like Ubuntu Linux and Linux Mint, but there’s also a lesser-known Linux flavor that’s designed specifically to offer an [...]

Haar Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Launches Blog

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

NEW YORK, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sports medicine expert Robert D. Haar, M.D. has announced the launch of his new blog, Robert Haar, M.D. – A New York Orthopedic Surgeon Talks Sports Medicine (http://roberthaarmd.wordpress.com/). The blog will cover topics ranging from common sports-related injuries to the latest advances in surgical treatment. “The repetitive motions [...]

Cheap WordPress Hosting Deal for June 2012

Monday, June 18th, 2012

The web hosting review site Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com announced the cheap WordPress hosting deal for June 2012 based on the WordPress hosting features, speed, reliability and technical support, but not only the price. (PRWEB) June 18, 2012 Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com announced BlueHost WordPress hosting as the cheap WordPress hosting deal for June 2012 based on the WordPress hosting features, [...]

With an Eye for Social, Disqus Gets a Makeover

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

Disqus co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha Talk about synchronicity. Disqus released a completely revamped version of its comment moderation system on Wednesday, not more than 24 hours after WordPress.com introduced a Facebook plugin for enhanced commenting and integration across all WordPress.com VIP and WP-hosted sites. Aside from drastic aesthetic changes, the clear focus of the [...]

Burson-Marsteller wants to help brands navigate new gTLDs

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

Burson-Marsteller, a leading public relations and communications firm, announced today that it has formed a consulting group dedicated to advising clients on the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). B-M currently operates 67 wholly owned offices and 71 affiliate offices in 98 countries across 6 continents. The company boasts that ICANN worked with the [...]

With An Eye For Social, Disqus Gets A Makeover

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

Disqus co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha Talk about synchronicity. Disqus released a completely revamped version of its comment moderation system on Wednesday, not more than 24 hours after WordPress.com introduced a Facebook plugin for enhanced commenting and integration across all WordPress.com VIP and WP-hosted sites. Aside from drastic aesthetic changes, the clear focus of the [...]

With An Eye For Social, Disqus Gets A Makeover

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Disqus co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha Talk about synchronicity. Disqus released a completely revamped version of its comment moderation system on Wednesday, not more than 24 hours after WordPress.com introduced a Facebook plugin for enhanced commenting commenting and integration across all WordPress.com VIP and WP-hosted sites. Aside from drastic aesthetic changes, the clear focus is [...]

Facebook gets boost from new iOS 6 and WordPress integration

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

<!– Sign up for our Newsletters | –> Sign up for our Newsletters |   Email the Editor  |  Print  Apple’s announcement that it’s integrating Facebook into its operating system software should be welcome news for a social network that’s taken a lot of hits in recent weeks. “Facebook is a company that could use some good [...]

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