Leading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta (www.cogenta.com) has launched a multi-national version of its Cloud-based Retail Insight platform. The innovative pricing intelligence application is the first system to enable international retailers, manufacturers, brand managers and market researchers to monitor consumer goods pricing data from major economic centres in 24 countries across the globe, including Europe…
Month: January 2014
Red Hat and CentOS become Voltron, build free operating system together
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•Red Hat and the CentOS Project today said they will team up to build what they called “a new CentOS” in a bid to accelerate adoption of the free operating system. Source: Tech
Should you switch to a supersecure operating system?
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•Qubes, a Linux OS, uses Xen to spawn multiple domains and promises to reduce risk with some extra effort. Source: Tech
The Three Most Important Open Computing Trends to Watch in 2014
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•Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. The key events of 2013 set up many of the changes in open computing that we can expect to see in 2014. This year, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) will go cross-platform, Linux will increasingly be deployed…
Evidence for soft bounds in Ubuntu package sizes and mammalian body masses
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•Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 110, No. 52. , pp. 21054-21058, doi:10.1073/pnas.1311124110 [Significance] Not unlike a big city, a large software project grows in a complex way, involving many developers and even more users, but a predictive framework to understand these temporal patterns is lacking. Source: Tech
Frameworks 5 Tech Preview is here
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•KDE Frameworks it a port of kdelibs to Qt 5 and turned into modules so you can install only the bits you need. Source: Tech
Open collaboration leading to novel organizations
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•Open collaboration – which has brought the world Bitcoin, TEDx and Wikipedia – is likely to lead to new organizations that are not quite non-profits and not quite corporations, according to a paper by Sheen S. Levine of Columbia University and Michael J. Prietula of Emory University published in the journal Organization Science. Source: Tech
6 Reasons Why Shadow IT is Emerging from the Shadows
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•Guess who the biggest users of shadow IT are? IT employees themselves! Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Boston Moves 76K City Employees to Google Apps
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•Every Boston city employee from police officers to public school teachers now have a Google Apps account. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
IT Spending to Grow 3.1 Percent in 2014, Says Gartner
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•That forecast is more conservative than the outlook provided by Forrester Research. Enterprise software is expected to be a hot market. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux