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Couchbase and the Future of NoSQL Databases
Couchbase is a NoSQL, document-oriented database for building interactive applications. Trends in the open source database industry show positive growth as NoSQL is used for web, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In this interview, Arun Gupta, VP of Developer Advocacy at Couchbase, shares his views on how open source has made an impact on the database industry, and the challenges that lie ahead for the NoSQL industry. Also, find out which open source tools and methodologies Couchbase has adopted...
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Could Local Cities Provide Equitable Internet Access?
If the FCC votes to effectively end net neutrality, residents of the South Sound do have a potential alternative that is gaining traction elsewhere: turning to local Internet service providers who ride on municipally-owned fiber optic networks...
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Court Hands Huge Victory To Universities' Digitization Efforts
Universities can proceed with their efforts to scan books, not just because of the ability to search, but because of the huge benefits to blind students. Read More »
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Cover Oregon Should Have Used Open-Source Software: Guest Opinion
To me, guest columnist Charles Jennings accurately represents the old school IT mentality - "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." I couldn't gather from his essay whether he knows anything about modern software development methodology.
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Critical Bluetooth Flaws Put Over 5 Billion Devices At Risk Of Hacking
Bluetooth is one of the most popular short-range wireless communications technologies in use today and is built into many types of devices, from phones, smartwatches and TVs to medical equipment and car infotainment systems. Many of those devices are now at risk of being hacked due to critical flaws found in the Bluetooth implementations of the operating systems they use. Over the past several months, a team of researchers from IoT security firm Armis have been working with Google, Microsoft, Apple and Linux developers, to silently coordinate the release of patches for eight serious vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to completely take over Bluetooth-enabled devices or to hijack their Internet traffic.
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Data Breaches Through Wearables Put Target Squarely on IoT in 2017
Security needs to be baked into IoT devices for there to be any chance of halting a DDoS attack, according to security experts. Read More »
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Data Center Operators Welcome IBM's OpenPower Initiative
Data center providers have welcomed the news that Google, IBM and Nvidia will collaborate to form an open development alliance for datacentres called OpenPower. Read More »
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Debunking Four Myths About Android, Google, And Open-Source
Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux. Read More »
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Deep Dive: Software Patents And The Rise Of Patent Trolls
Beloved podcasts like the Adam Carolla Show and HowStuffWorks are under attack. They and other podcasts are getting sued for, well, podcasting. And they're not the only victims—developers are being targeted for building mobile apps, and offices around the nation are being attacked for using ordinary networked scanners. Read More »
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Defense Department Needs to Embrace Open Source or Military Will Lose Tech Superiority
The Department of Defense needs to move past open source myths that have been debunked and jump on the open source bandwagon or the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. military will not be able to maintain tech superiority, warns a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report. Open source software is used in the Pentagon, which should strongly suggest that open source is not an unsecure and vulnerable hot mess. Yet the DoD overall is stuck in the past, clinging to “erroneous and unfounded misunderstandings about open source software.” Those misconceptions often mean open source is not even considered as a viable option for DoD software projects...
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Democratizing Deep Learning With An iPhone App And Open Source SDK
Most people will never have the computer science knowledge to become deep-learning researchers, but now they can test out the results of that work with a simple computer vision iPhone app called Deep Belief. iOS developers can take Deep Belief a step further by downloading an open source software development kit and working its object-recognition capabilities into their own apps.
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Developers: We Warned Apple About iOS Maps Quality
To the casual observer it might appear that Apple was caught off guard by just how bad its in-house maps app was. But the company had plenty of warning. Read More »
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Digital Health’s Dirty Little Secrets Revealed
Digital health is hot. Consider the evidence...
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Do You Want The Government Buying Your Data From Corporations?
A new bill moving through Congress would give the authorities unprecedented access to citizens' information. Read More »
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Docker And The Rise Of Open Source
There’s never been a phenomenon like Docker. Eighteen months ago, the company took its core technology, which enables IT people to move software easily between different machines by enclosing it in “containers”, and made it open source...
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