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Virtumake – DIY 3D Scanners And Open Source Hardware

Staff Writer | Open Source Hardware Junkies | April 21, 2013

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words is a 3D model worth? 3D Scanning is taking 3d printing to another level – it is allowing people to visualize the natural world in new ways. Read More »

VistA Expo 2012 - Training Opportunities for Project Managers

Fabian Lopez | vxVistA.org | July 30, 2012

In collaboration with the VISTA Expo & Symposium, project-management training company GR8PM will be offering courses in Seattle, September 8-10. These courses provide Project Management Institute (PMI)-certified project managers an opportunity to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs). Read More »

Want a Successful Tech Venture? Try These Tips

Kahenya Kamunyu | Daily National | January 15, 2012

When it comes to digital ventures, innovation is key. The biggest mistake a lot of techpreneurs make is that they forget to innovate after they become a hit and simply focus on the money coming in, and acquiring more consumers. Read More »

We're Entering the Golden Age of Hadoop

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | January 19, 2012

Although the first couple years of the commercial Hadoop era have been characterized by an attitude of “Hadoop is great, but …”, the tone is changing as Hadoop vendors make the platform more palatable with each iteration. Read More »

Weekly: OpenIR In Jakarta, Windows 8 App, & Uchaguzi

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | January 24, 2013

Happy Week! In this Community report, we’re featuring work from Jakarta, Italy and, of course, Kenya. The next two months will be full of Uchaguzi updates. Since the Ushahidi team is heavily involved in the project, we want to share our journey with you. Believe me, we are learning tons! Read More »

What Is Great About OuiShare And In The Rest Of Europe

Lorenzo Mannello | Maker Faire Rome | April 29, 2013

Early May is all about sharing: in Paris there is OuiShare Fest, an event for creative minds, makers and fabbers from all around Europe (and not only). In addition to professional meetings, there are events for people who are simply curious and wish to hear all the latest news and share an interest in the new industrial revolution. Read More »

What to Expect in Apple's Upcoming Maps App

Yoni Heisler | Network World | June 6, 2012

Apple will unveil iOS 6 next week at WWDC, and the Maps app will reportedly be getting a complete overhaul. Here's what to expect. Read More »

What Took So Long? The First Open Source Private Cloud Software Arrives

Brian Proffitt | ReadWriteWeb | August 1, 2012

Rackspace has become the first vendor to deliver on the promise of true cloud-computing portability for businesses with Wednesday’s launch of the first commercial cloud service using OpenStack cloud technology. Read More »

What Would You Like Policy-Makers to Know About Computing? Brian Kernighan's Solution

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | December 29, 2011

Computer programmers roll their eyes when they hear about anti-circumvention bans, SOPA, Pakistani disruption of the DNS to carry out censorship, and similar incursions of government officials into the domain that computer nerds claim as their own. One often hears technologists say, "If those policy-makers knew a thing or two about the Internet..." Well, renowned Unix researcher Brian W. Read More »

What's the Big Deal About Hadoop?

Todd R. Weiss | ComputerWorld | February 14, 2012

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it -- including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo -- it may seem inevitable that the open-source Big Data management system will land in your shop, too. Read More »

When iOS 7 Attacks: Help For iPhone 4 And 4S Owners

Adriana Lee | Say Media Inc. | October 15, 2013

Older iPhones that update to Apple's latest mobile software can get laggy. Here's how to minimize those problems.

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Why APIs Aren't Enough At BusinessUSA.gov

Staff Writer | AOL Gov | July 2, 2012

BusinessUSA connects businesses to many government services and information. It does that primarily by providing access to APIs – the instructions that allow software applications to exchange information – but APIs only involve the transfer of data and do not provide a user interface to actually see the data. Read More »

Why Apple And Google Can't Sync Right—And Don't Care If You Suffer

Matt Asay | Say Media Inc. | August 30, 2013

There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to the superiority of ecosystems economics over legacy business models." Sadly, this triumph has a casualty, and that casualty is you.

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Why One Tech-Savvy Aid Worker Had to Flee Afghanistan

Spencer Ackerman | Wired | March 6, 2012

Gold, a lieutenant in the North Carolina National Guard who deployed to Iraq in 2009, didn’t think it would turn out this way. She and her friends had started a tech-heavy aid company, the International Synergy Group, that brought Gold to Afghanistan in May 2010. With some contract cash from the blue-sky researchers at Darpa, Gold sought to use mobile applications to get agriculture and health data into the hands of Afghans, particularly for pregnant women in need of natal-care facts, through the use of open-source software favored by aid workers like Ushahidi or FrontlineSMS...

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Why Open Source Is an Important Option

David Stegon | FedScoop | January 4, 2012

Red Hat Public Sector chief Technology Strategist Funnar Hellekson discusses why open source is an important option for government in this video with FedScoopTV.

Videocast here.