Fedora 17 Takes to the Cloud
Posted by PCWorld
The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) yet, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution.
Fedora 17, released Monday, also includes the latest version of the Gnome -- version 3.4 -- as the default user interface.
Overall, this release contains an unusually substantial number of new features, programs and improvements, said Robyn Bergeron, Fedora project leader.
"We have a new release every six months. Sometimes there are fewer features, but I think this re[...]
Continue ReadingFedora 17, released Monday, also includes the latest version of the Gnome -- version 3.4 -- as the default user interface.
Overall, this release contains an unusually substantial number of new features, programs and improvements, said Robyn Bergeron, Fedora project leader.
"We have a new release every six months. Sometimes there are fewer features, but I think this re[...]
Mobile Online Shopping Holds The Real Opportunity In Mobile Payments
Posted by TechCrunch
Every day there is a new headline about mobile payments focused on using a mobile phone to pay at retail locations. Paypal, Google and other industry giants are racing to provide new in-store mobile payment solutions. Large merchants, such as Wal-mart and Target have contemplated their own mobile payment solutions. The debate about whether NFC will be the preferred technology to enable mobile payments rages. However, despite all this press and efforts by industry giants, there is stunningly little traction to use a mobile device to pay at retail locations. This is largely because the solutions offered by industry giants thus far don’t solve a meaningful problem in the daily lives of consume[...]
Continue ReadingNever Take Your Eyes Off This Hacker Metric
Posted by TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal.
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my friend Andrew Chen posted an insightful analysis of Facebook user data, I was happy to get back to learning from what the company did right instead of debating what its bankers did wrong.
Chen calculated Facebook’s historical ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthl[...]
Continue ReadingIf you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my friend Andrew Chen posted an insightful analysis of Facebook user data, I was happy to get back to learning from what the company did right instead of debating what its bankers did wrong.
Chen calculated Facebook’s historical ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthl[...]
Kelora Patent Found Obvious: Are Other “Obvious” Software Patents In Danger?
Posted by TechCrunch
As software patent litigation ramped up over the past few years, software patents have come under the microscope within the technical community. Many investors and technologists believe that software patents should be abolished all together, while others take the less extreme position that many software patents are obvious over known prior art (“prior art” being earlier publications that show a patent is obvious or not new). Courts are increasingly cognizant of these criticisms.Though it is unlikely that software patents are going away any time soon, as the recent summary judgment in eBay v PartsRiver (PartsRiver is now known as Kelora) demonstrates, courts are beginning to do a[...]
Continue ReadingVimeo’s new cloud-based tool lets you seamlessly add music to videos
Posted by VentureBeat
Popular video-sharing site Vimeo has launched a new Enhancer tool that makes it possible to seamlessly add more than 50,000 music tracks from the Vimeo Music Store directly to online videos, the company announced today.
Vimeo has always focused on bringing the highest-quality experience to online videos and its emphasis on quality separates itself from YouTube. Now, with the Enhancer tool and a new partnership, Vimeo builds on that reputation by making it easier to add a soundtrack to an already uploaded video, change audio levels, and change the start and end times of a track.
The company also has added a new music partner with SmartSound that will let users add about 4,000 customizable tra[...]
Continue ReadingVimeo has always focused on bringing the highest-quality experience to online videos and its emphasis on quality separates itself from YouTube. Now, with the Enhancer tool and a new partnership, Vimeo builds on that reputation by making it easier to add a soundtrack to an already uploaded video, change audio levels, and change the start and end times of a track.
The company also has added a new music partner with SmartSound that will let users add about 4,000 customizable tra[...]
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