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Category: Internet & Culture

Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new  businesses, fueling innovation  and creativity.

All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.

  • Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled

    Linux, the open source operating system that virtually powers all of webservers, billions of Android phones as it’s kernel just as well as the majority of home routers and IoT devices, turns 25 years this year. IEEE Spectrum runs an article on the history and why the open kernel became so successful.

    Timing, cost, and the right license made all the difference.

    Also, Linus Torvalds has an approach that would be called agile these days. Bringing a feature in place is more important than having the 100% solution, and Linus explains this approach in the accompanying Q&A session:

    I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.

    via: Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum

  • Zigbee for #IoT

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    Dresden Electronic Raspbee

    Zigbee is a wireless protocol for applications not requiring lots of bandwidth, e.g. home automation, lighting or sensor networks. The idea is to create so called Personal Area Networks. The specification is standardized as IEEE 802.15.4.

    Dresden Electronic offers the Rasbee (Picture to the left) to get started with low budget Raspberry Pi Hardware.

  • Blah Blah blah … I don't care!

    Nice rant every technical person in the industry can relate to.

    Blah Blah blah … I don’t care! To hell with your tech marketing bull.

    Also:

    In tech, filtering signal from noise is a full-time job

    True.

    via: The Register

  • Is cloud computing truly, truly disruptive?

    “Disruption” is one of those words that has been overused, being applied to every little product or service that comes to market, or every new company that emerges. Cloud computing and digital technologies, for example, are branded by many as “disruptive.” New services and business models sweeping through markets, such as Uber and Airbnb, are […]

    Turns out, no, the cloud itself ain’t disruptive. But the availability of on-demand computing resources enables businesses to come up with ideas more easily and the service based approach disrupts businesses.
    via: Is cloud computing truly, truly disruptive?

  • The Internet rules the Mobile World Congress.

    The Internet rules the Mobile World Congress. Writes Wired. Which is consequent, looking at the development of mobile technology and sales of devices.

    Slowing smartphone sales and metro strikes aren’t enough to get anyone down at the 16th annual Mobile World Congress.

    via: WIRED

  • #AWS #IoT Contest winners announced.

    AWS announced the winners of their IoT contest.

  • SmartHome recipes for the #IoT with IFTTT

    IFTTT has established itself as the central decision making instance from your smart phone between all your data sources and gadgets. So enabling your Smart Home through IFTTT is only a short throught away. CNET has a few ideas for that matter.

    Getting connected devices to work together isn’t always as easy as it should be. IFTTT can help your smart home function more smoothly by acting as a translator between the many languages of smart home devices.

    via: CNET

  • BitTorrent Live now in open beta

    Apparently, Bittorrent Live is now in open beta with a test case for live streaming.

    In the market for internet backed streaming, this may make a large difference, should the technology keep it’s promise.

    BitTorrent Live now in open beta, brings live webcasting to the masses

    via: Engadget

  • Docker 1.10

    Docker announced version 1.10 past week. The new release contains more than 100 improvements over the previous version. New features include better resource management, a more flexible docker-compose file format and improvements to security. These are in particular through user namespace isolation, implementation of seccomp for syscall filtering and an authorization plugin to restrict access to Docker engine features.

    We’re pleased to announce Docker 1.10, jam-packed with stuff you’ve been asking for. It’s now much easier to define and run complex distributed apps with Docker Compose. The power that Compose brou…

    via: Docker Blog
    Release notes.

  • Alphabet Passes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company With Google's Help

    Google reported profit and sales that topped estimates, lifted by robust sales of online ads and tighter cost controls, putting parent Alphabet Inc. on track to overtake Apple Inc. as the world’s most valuable company.

    via: Alphabet Passes Apple as World’s Most Valuable Company With Google’s Help