23rd February 2013 Archive
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Hands-on with Ubuntu's rudimentary phone and tablet OS
Pics It's here, but there's not much you can do with it
Canonical says that Ubuntu 13.10 will include "a complete entry-level smartphone experience" when it ships in October. Anyone brave enough to try out the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview, however, will quickly discover that the current incarnation of Ubuntu for phones and tablets offers considerably less than that. When it …
Developer 23 Feb 01:31
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Free Riak database acts like depressed teenager to assure data reliability
Version 1.3 constantly interrogates itself to make sure data is ok
Basho's NoSQL Riak database has been given an upgrade that makes it question its own integrity at all times – a tedious trait in people, but a handy one for assuring data preservation in massively distributed information stores. The "active anti-entropy" feature in Riak 1.3, which was released on Thursday, means the open …
Developer 23 Feb 01:47
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Microsoft brings Azure back online
Red-faced Redmond mends worldwide SSL certificate cockup
Microsoft has managed to repair its Windows Azure cloud, after an expired SSL certificate downed storage and other services for people across the world. Ninety-nine percent of the affected services have been brought back online, Redmond said early in the hours of Saturday morning, Pacific Time. "We will continue monitoring …
Cloud 23 Feb 18:43
