Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced in the recent shareholders meeting that Yahoo may be increasing its search traffic. It is accomplishing that increase through a partnership with Oracle as Yahoo becomes the new toolbar to be pushed out with Java by default. This change removes Ask Toolbar from being the opt-out sponsor offer for Java. The change of hands comes shortly after … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is now a stand-alone product
Microsoft has announced that its SQL Server Management Studio is now available as a stand-alone product with the June 2015 Preview release. This frees the useful tool from its normal bundling with the SQL Engine releases. This independence should allow Microsoft to give it more development and more frequent updates to keep in step with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. The … [Read more...]
Intel publishes Remote Keyboard for Android
Intel recently published a new app for Android devices. It turns your Android device into a keyboard and mouse for a computer. Intel provides the app for its Intel NUCs and the Intel Compute Stick. The keyboard app adds to the versatility of these small form factors. The keyboard app provides a touchpad and a keyboard, including the Windows key and arrow keys. To … [Read more...]
Industry tries to standardize software containers
Industry leading companies have come together to support a project to standardize software containers. The Open Container Project is a collaborative project involving Amazon, Cisco, Docker, HP, IBM, The Linux Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Redhat, VMware, and others. The OCP and its members will work together to build a standard that ensures container formats and runtime are … [Read more...]
Book Review: Social Media: Like It or Leave It
Social Media: Like it or Leave it by Rebecca Rowell is intended for 5th or 6th graders. It provides a reasonable argument for both perspectives of social media, embracing it or ignoring it. The publisher uses a unique method for the "Perspective Flip Books" where reading the book one way gives you one argument and then flipping the book around gives you a different argument. … [Read more...]