Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tech Review: Friday, February 15, 2013

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HP bids adieu to WebOS, Windows RT, and says hello to Android
  • Competition from MS
  • Poor Surface sales
  • Apple sold 23 million iPads
  • HP sold 15 million PCs

Can Android, Apple smartphone OS dominance last?



Securing your Linux PC



First Ubuntu smartphones coming in October, Shuttleworth promises


What's New in the Android 4.2.2 Update Nexus Devices Are Getting?


Google countersues British Telecom over networking patents
  • arming patent trolls






Monday, February 4, 2013

Tech Review: Monday, February 4, 2013

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Red Hat expands cloud management services
  • ManageIQ

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Listing running services at the command line
  • net start 

Backing Up SQL


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WinSCP


Cygwin



Working with Active Directory Users and Computers


US government debates action over alleged Chinese cyberattacks


Big data file replication comes to Apache Hadoop



Homeland Security: Disable UPnP as tens of millions at risk
  • universal plug and play


Microsoft to launch the new Office commercially on January 29




Java update 'doesn't prevent silent exploits at all'


USB 3.0 vs. Thunderbolt review



Google's continuing odyssey to sink passwords


VMware investing $30M with IT automation specialists Puppet Labs



Microsoft's Surface with Windows 8 Pro to go on sale February 9



Google challenges hackers to take on Chrome OS

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Java open-source frameworks are a business risk: study


MariaDB

Oracle who? Fedora & openSUSE will replace MySQL with MariaDB