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Monday, May 5, 2014

It seems there's always some kind of conflict at work in the FOSS community lately, whether it's based on race, on gender or something else. Most recently, it's the gender issue that has been felt most keenly. Not only have we seen the whole GitHub debacle unfold and explode, but then a certain post appeared online. IT pro Caitlyn Martin revealed that she had turned down an otherwise attractive job offer because she would have been the first and only female in a company's 400-strong IT staff. So why did the Linux community get so upset?

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Sexism in FOSS Rears Its Ugly Head Again... and Again

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It seems there's always some kind of conflict at work in the FOSS community lately, whether it's based on race, on gender or somet...

As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks increase, system defenders in the trenches are losing confidence in their ability to protect their organizations' information assets, suggests a survey released last week by Websense and the Ponemon Institute. The survey of almost 5,000 global IT security pros found that 57 percent felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyberattacks and 63 percent doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems.

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Security Pros Struggle With Cyberthreat Angst

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As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks increase, system defenders in the trenches are losing confidence in their ability to prot...

Nokia has created a $100 million fund earmarked for investing in firms that specialize in connected and smart vehicles. The move comes days after the Finnish firm forked over its handset unit to Microsoft. Nokia already has a mapping-and-location company called "Here." The new fund will be designed to support the growth of the ecosystem around Here's mapping and location products and services, the company said. Nokia is far from the only tech outfit hopping on-board with cars.

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Nokia Launches Fund to Invest in Smart Vehicles

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Nokia has created a $100 million fund earmarked for investing in firms that specialize in connected and smart vehicles. The move comes day...

With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using Android as the basis for its living room set-top box and that it features a store where users can download Android apps. For the most part, that’s games right now. Still, there are only around 250 apps or so in the store at the moment, but if it’s… Read More

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Cross-Platform Developer Service Xamarin Adds Amazon Fire Support

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With its Fire TV platform, Amazon is making a major push for the living room. One of the advantages for developers is that Amazon is using A...

When Microsoft included Windows XP in the Internet Explorer zero-day browser vulnerability patch it issued this week, some industry observers were stunned. Had the company decided to backtrack on its assertion that it would no longer support XP? Had it knuckled under to user protests? Not really. Redmond has not decided to backtrack on killing support for Windows XP; it made an exception this time, because the vulnerability was discovered so close to Microsoft's ending support for XP, wrote Adrienne Hall, general manager of trustworthy computing.

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Microsoft Gives XP One last Hug

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When Microsoft included Windows XP in the Internet Explorer zero-day browser vulnerability patch it issued this week, some industry observ...

Google and Microsoft are positioned against each other as primary competitors, and that could mean trouble. I remember past dynamics similar to theirs that didn't end well for either company. Apple focused on IBM and didn't see Microsoft coming. Microsoft focused on AOL and didn't see the Internet coming. Intel focused on AMD and missed Transmeta and ARM. Microsoft and Apple focused on each other and were blindsided by Google. Now Microsoft and Google are focusing on each other, which likely will lead both to ignore the risk Amazon represents.

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