Protects Hadoop community, perhaps others in the future
Google has vowed to not sue users, distributors, or developers of technologies covered by some of its key patents, and has started out by protecting the cloudy Hadoop community.…
IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME
Oh Trevor, how could you? Like this
Sysadmin blog I contributed to the massive DDoS attack against Spamhaus. What flowed through my network wasn’t huge – it averaged 500Kbit/sec – but it contributed. This occurred because I made a simple configuration error when setting up a DNS server; it’s fixed now, so let’s do an autopsy.…
Rackspace gobbles Exceptional Cloud Services for Redis smarts
A little Redis to go with your MongoDB, sir?
Just a month after chowing down on MongoDB provider ObjectRocket Rackspace is announcing plans to devour another company, this time gobbling up a Redis hoster Exceptional Cloud Services.…
Paypal struggles free of VMware lock-in, goes with OpenStack
Deed heeds its need for speed
Paypal is floating thousands of its servers on open-source OpenStack and sidelining VMware to become faster than smaller competitors at building payment apps for the cloud.…
Double the brightness in low light photos with Panasonic’s new color filtering technology
Panasonic has developed a unique technology that doubles the brightness of color photography, by using micro color splitters instead of conventional color filters in the image sensor.
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Google Translate for Android adds offline translation option
Not quite as handy as a Babel Fish, but almost
The latest update to the Google Translate app for Android aims to solve one of its trickier issues: how to use the app when you’re traveling abroad without incurring expensive overseas data roaming charges or fiddling with foreign SIMs.…
Microsoft’s ‘Gemini’ project will be the Windows Blue of Office
Rolling wave of updates, beginning later this year
Even as Microsoft has publicly acknowledged the existence of Windows “Blue,” the much-buzzed-about Service Pack reworking of Windows 8 due later this year, the rumor mill is already churning with rumblings about a similar update project underway for Office 2013.…
Citrix moves into SaaS management
Control your apps, users, clouds
Citrix is moving into application management as part of the company’s continued shift away from merely delivering virtualized Windows apps.…
Amazon adds crypto modules to AWS cloud
Psst, enterprises: Get a load of this
Amazon is plugging ultra-secure key management appliances into its cloud to calm enterprise security admins while locking them into its way of doing things.…
Google improves Chrom’s spel checkr
El Reg‘s Grammar Lab feeds it teasing typos
The new stable version of Chrome, 26.0.1410.43 m for those of you still counting, has baked in the spell check tech The Chocolate Factory uses when you type in its search dialog.…
