Tuesday 9 August 2011

News in Brief: Ubuntu Clouds Freebie Offers, Addressed The Opening Android

Ubuntu is a cloud more

Canon Ubuntu, Canonical user online storage service claims that the cloud of a million. Thank you for the users, Canonical Ubuntu 5 GB with 2 GB of free storage and share that increased an upgrade to one of the basic plan is to change the name of Ubuntu. Dropbox offers free 2 GB 5 GB of a new frontier, including Ubuntu, the highlight of cloud computing services to other staff people. Ubuntu One, launched in May 2009.

As part of this update, Ubuntu Mobile One, the current plan is $ 3.99 per month will provide 20 GB of storage, unlimited streaming music and streaming music on the iPhone and Android will change in the plan. The user can also add storage in increments of 20 GB for $ 2.99 per month.

Canonical, Ubuntu A cloud for users' increasing access to a Windows PC, Windows and Ubuntu client has plans for an update for users of Windows, Android allows you to use Ubuntu for synchronization between the iPhone and Ubuntu web site.

Android: Open source is not open

How to open source? If Android, according to new research, is not sufficiently clear. The report prepared by VisionMobile, Android considered "open" ranked the eight mobile open source projects. Working at the same time in Eclipse, the Linux kernel, Meegan, Firefox, Qt, Symbian and open government, inclusiveness, transparency and ease of access to source code, based on WebKit occurred.

Android has come to occupy in the past, but the "open points" as the second-last in the list of 58%, compared to only 23% of Qt that was not right. Eclipse has taken the top spot with a score of 84% and was second at 71% of the Linux kernel.

Because Android is difficult to claim a large share of the market - in general, that the report of a project, argued that in the long run, successful open. However, researchers, Android, and other factors related to success.

"The success of the Android source code base to open the public may have little to do with licensing. Android, Google's financial muscle and the famous, if not all at the same time ask the engineering team would not have been reached. More importantly, addition, Google Android, Google software main business or calling is not available with a zero cost, but the ads have been the engine of the eyes. As you know, Google's strategy was to subsidize the Android even advertising inventory for Google to attract more eyes can provide cheap phones and cheap access to wireless Internet, "Liz Laffan , a research partner VisionMobile said in a statement.

CIC displays Gluster

Communication Intelligence Corp., an electronic signature solution provider for the financial services industry to move to cloud applications, cloud storage is the use of open technology Gluster sources. This is a business is a highly regulated industry accepted open source cloud computing, and indicates the growing maturity of the IT industry has played a powerful role.

CIC Gluster according to a press release, Amazon Web Services, storage and supply of products and services without compromising on service level agreements to ensure that the environment RightScale selected.

"Our customers 7 / 24 recovery and access to documents that require, at the same time not to expect a fast and efficient delivery of these items," Nhan Nguyen, CTO and Chief Scientist of the CIC, said in a statement.

Choose a thin Linux Netbook Asus

Asus Eee PC Netbook X101 MeeGo turns back on Linux, not Windows. Asus is one of the few computers shipping with Linux, this flavor. Operating systems other MeeGo with limited memory and processing power in less than a source of important little netbook. Asus Netbook is only 0.69 cm thick.

Asus Eee PC product manager Brian Tang Techinstyle.tv Meegan said, because they chose an open source their own flexibility. No release date for the Eee PC X101.

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