Matias Vangsnes

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BeagleBoard.org hobbyists unleash 20 new "cape" plug-in boards, fueling Linux …

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – ”Throwing a bone” to designers, makers and hobbyists looking to easily and affordably develop creative, Linux-based electronics, BeagleBoard.org today announced the availability of more than 20 new plug-in boards for the widely-adopted BeagleBone Linux computer platform. Creatively calling the plug-in boards “capes” in reference to the cape worn by a [...]

Gumstix New Waysmall™ Silverlode Computer: Powering Vertical Market …

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of tiny computers-on-module (COMs) and expansion boards for embedded design engineers, today debuted the Waysmall Silverlode computer, a compact 11.0 x 4 .4cm, 1.8cm tall, low-wattage computer designed for developers of commercial and industrial vertical market applications. Housed in an aluminum case, [...]

Comm100 Live Chat Plugin for WordPress & Joomla Hits the Market

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Comm100, the leader in customer service and communication software, has just announced the launch of live chat plugins for WordPress and Joomla, the two most widely used Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world. As Comm100′s flagship product, Comm100 Live Chat can now be quickly installed on [...]

Micro​soft/Trust​wave Expand ModSecurit​y To IIS And Nginx Servers

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

CHICAGO– July 25, 2012 – Trustwave, a leading provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today announced that the popular, open source ModSecurity Web Application Firewall now supports the top three Web server platforms, including new support for Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and Nginx, in addition to existing support for Apache Web servers. [...]

Trustwave Teams With Microsoft to Bring Open-Source Web Application Firewall to Top Web Server Platforms

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Trustwave, a leading provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today announced that the popular, open source ModSecurity® Web Application Firewall now supports the top three Web server platforms, including new support for Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and Nginx, in addition to existing support for Apache Web servers. Trustwave collaborated [...]

Religious Leaders Pledge Support in Fight Against Domestic Violence

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Photo: Kate Holt/Irin A new multi-faith initiative, Ubuntu in the Home, aims to harness the power and influence of South African religious leaders to tackle the problem of gender-based violence in the country. At the programme’s launch on Tuesday, members of different faith communities lamented the silence that has previously prevailed among them on this [...]

Why the Dot Com Kingdom Will Continue to Rule Post New gTLDs

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with .com. It sounded better [...]

The Dot Com Kingdom Rules

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with Com. It sounded better [...]

Dell Launching Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop After Successful Pilot Program …

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Dell will launch a developer version of the XPS 13 that runs Ubuntu 12.04. (Photo: flickr.com / Affiliate) After running a successful pilot program, Dell will be releasing an Ubuntu developer laptop codenamed Project Sputnik later this year. The project will essentially be an XPS13 Ultrabook with an Ubuntu 12.04 build that runs several developer [...]

Canonical unveils Ubuntu Web Apps – bit

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Canonical’s Ubuntu Web Apps promises to give web applications like Gmail, Facebook and Last.fm the same power as desktop applications. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled a new feature of his company’s Ubuntu Linux distribution, set to appear in version 12.10 later this year: web apps. Taking a leaf from Mozilla’s Prism project and Google’s Chrome [...]

Discover the Ease of WordPress and Build Your Own Business Website

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Raleigh, NC, July 18, 2012 –(PR.com)– Create a Blog+Website Using WordPress is open for enrollment again at The Small Business Center at Wake Tech Community College in Cary, NC starting July 23, 2012. Michelle Gower of Gower Power Consulting, LLC, a WordPress training firm, will lead the course. The class “will give small business owners [...]

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 Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop Launches this Fall: Project Sputnik FTW

Friday, July 20th, 2012

XPS13 Ultrabook(Photo: Dell | Mobile Apps) Dell announced on Wednesday, July 18, that it is officially back into the Linux laptop market. Project sputnik, which was first announced back in May, will now move out of Dell’s internal incubator program and graduate into a real product. Starting this fall, Dell will be selling a special [...]

Your very own ARM-based Ubuntu servers in the cloud… for free

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Not content with dominating the world of smartphones and tablets, makers of low-power ARM chips are setting their sights on the server market. While x86 servers are still the norm, there have been hints for some time that ARM might become a presence in the data center. Another small, early step toward an ARM future [...]

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, [...]

Move Over WordPress, There’s A New CMS In Town

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

New Data Shows Pinterest Users Look But Don’t Buy J.J. Colao Forbes Staff Facebook Didn’t Kill Digg, Reddit Did Paul Tassi Contributor Anthony Casalena doesn’t need your help. The 30 year-old CEO of Squarespace, a website creation service, bootstrapped his company to over $1 million in annual revenue by himself, then doubled revenues three years [...]

DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris to startups: “Complexity is your enemy”

Friday, July 13th, 2012

When Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), he had no idea his creation would come to shape parts of the web for many years to come. But because he started simple and had a future-looking plan, his concept worked. He thinks startups should follow the same principles. Mockapetris spoke today to a [...]

Comm100 Live Chat Plugin for WordPress & Joomla Hits the Market

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Comm100, the leader in customer service and communication software, has just announced the launch of live chat plugins for WordPress and Joomla, the two most widely used Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world. As Comm100′s flagship product, Comm100 Live Chat can now be quickly [...]

Ubuntu and the dangers of collectivism

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

The Ubuntu cuttlefish Rarely have I read such a vacuous collection of waffle as Barbara Nussbaum’s defence of Ubuntu, in response to Andrew Donaldson’s article ‘Let’s never mention Ubuntu again’, both published recently on Politicsweb. Truly, she manages to detract meaning from even the meaningless. I am loath to quote Orwell on the subject – so [...]

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