ResearchA field guide to 3D printing
Over the past 24 months, the 3D printing industry has enjoyed a tsunami of media coverage and a tidal wave of social-media conversations. But stories of phenomenal growth and the idea… Read more »
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Over the past 24 months, the 3D printing industry has enjoyed a tsunami of media coverage and a tidal wave of social-media conversations. But stories of phenomenal growth and the idea… Read more »
For years, Oracle has wowed Wall Street with fat software margins: Large companies depending on Oracle relational databases pay what it takes to keep them up and running. It’s unclear whether… Read more »
In the wake of CloudStack’s announcement, Cloudscaling’s CTO, Randy Bias, takes issue with its claims of “AWS compatibility” and “true Amazon-style architecture.” According to Bias, “no one should be under the… Read more »
Everyone is eager to name the new big data stack — a LAMP stack equivalent for all your big data needs. But with literally dozens of different open-source projects all taking… Read more »
Got an old netbook? For a $225 Kickstarter pledge, you can turn a netbook into a telepresence robot, remotely controlling it over from a web browser or a smartphone. Over a… Read more »
Big Switch Networks, a startup using the OpenFlow protocol to help companies build software-defined networks, has open-sourced its controller software, dubbed Floodlight. With this move, it will attempt to unseat networking… Read more »
The coming wave of open-source hardware, 3-D printing and other breakthroughs will open the floodgates to tech innovation, just as open-source software sparked the last tech boom by fueling the Google,… Read more »
LinkedIn has announced that the technology behind IndexTank, the search engine startup it acquired back in October, has been released as open source software. It was pretty clear that IndexTank was… Read more »
Xamarin, the company born earlier this year when Novell laid off the entire workforce dedicated to maintaining Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET development framework, was up against big odds… Read more »
Derrick Harris provides a summary of a Facebook presentation this week, in which the company shared some insights into operating at scale. 60 million queries every second, on a sharded architecture… Read more »