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Cloudera Releases Project Impala, Offers Real-Time Hadoop Analytics

“First of its kind” solution bridges the gap between Hadoop and enterprise SQL

MapR Releases M7 – Its Ultimate NoSQL Hadoop Platform

The flagship Hadoop product offers “zero-administartion” HBase and instant recovery

Google Releases Heart Of Glass Source Code

Now, developers can run their own software on the “intentionally unlocked” platform

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Brocade Pushes SDN Strategy With Software-Only Network Appliances

Brocade delivers software-only network appliances to push SDN forward

I Didn’t Steal Secrets From Opera, Says Former Developer

Opera accuses Trond Werner Hansen of breach of contract and claims £2.2m in damages

Canadian Government Intends To Tax Bitcoins

A statement from the Canadian tax agency reveals it is keeping a close eye on the virtual currency market

First Firefox OS Smartphones Sell Out In Hours

Firefox OS developer handsets are already sold out

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Government Names Open Standards Board

Standards Hub hopes to get more open source into government

Open Xchange: Why The World Needs Another Productivity Suite

OX Text respects file formats, says Frank Hoberg, co-founder of Open Xchange

First Jolla Sailfish OS Smartphone To Be Revealed In May

New smartphone will be shown off next month with Kickstarter-style pre-sale incentive programme

Video: Experts Weigh In On ‘Weightless’ – Part IV

Fourth part in TechWeekEurope’s video series looks at security of the Weightless standard and the purpose of the Weightless SIG

Firefox OS To Launch In Five Countries This June But Not UK

Firefox OS will launch in a number of European and South American nations by the end of 2013

HP Adds OpenStack Features To Its Converged Cloud

HP borrows cloud bursting from OpenStack, proposes new fibre channel storage blueprints

Lucas Nussbaum Voted New Leader Of The Debian Project

Assistant professor of computer science from University of Lorraine to oversee the development of Debian OS for the next year

Fujitsu Launches New SPARC64 X Enterprise Servers

Oracle and Fujitsu continue to build on their partnership with the news of new high-end Unix servers

Mozilla Wants A New CEO As Gary Kovacs Quits

Gary Kovacs will be stepping down later this year

Bitcoin Value Crashes To $105 After ‘Panic Sale’

According to Mt Gox, too much demand led to the temporary price crash

Why Rackspace Stood Up To Software Patent Trolls

Alan Schoenbaum, leader of the legal team at Rackspace, explains what makes software patent trolls ‘tick’

Six Libraries To Archive A Copy Of British Internet

The new Legal Deposit regulation will require publishers to allow qualified libraries take copies of all digital content

Google Drops WebKit Rendering For Chrome, Opts For Blink

Google is dropping its involvement with the WebKit rendering engine to focus on its own open source alternative

Mozilla And Samsung Working On A New Browser Engine

‘Servo’ engine will be made from scratch using the new ‘Rust’ programming language

Hadoop From MapR Heads To Ubuntu

Two open source giants collaborate on Big Data tools

‘Critical’ BIND Vulnerability Puts DNS Servers At Risk

A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts

Google Makes Open Source Patent Pledge

Google has promised not to sue open source developers and distributors over a list of 10 patents related to MapReduce, implemented in Apache Hadoop amongst others

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Study: Big Businesses Increase Linux Investment

Enteprise investment in Linux has grown for the third consecutive year, with rapidly increasing adoption leading to fears of a skills shortage, according to the Linux Foundation