While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important.
A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit.
it did catalyze massive interest in software and open source within the networking world. Things like APIS and Devops tools became relevant to network engineers,
and open source movements emerged to fulfill the need for increased automation and flexibility as organizations moved deeper into the cloud.
Most recently the conversation has shifted to how open-source policy frameworks can hide the complexity of networking
It now about innovating at the speed of software. While some of these open-source technologies are still maturing
Networking vendors have moved aggressively to support open-source orchestration, network controllers and even software-based appliances to drive higher levels of interoperability.
Originally a collaboration between Rackspace and NASA, the Openstack cloud computing software platform is the most prominent open-source project to emerge in recent years.
Openstack serves as an open source network orchestrator that lets users describe what they want from a network through a set of logical network abstractions.
This project, led by the Linux Foundation, focuses on the control and management of network resources,
Critical portions of OVS are included now directly in the Linux kernel, and it has become an important building block in extending the network into the operating system.
Open source projects have performed also significant work on open protocols, including: Openflow. Now managed by the Open Networking Foundation,
Openflow kicked off the SDN movement in 2008 by promoting the idea of programmability in switches.
Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
For example, the Open Compute Project was formed to help drive low-level innovation in open hardware and software.
using open source to define an intent-driven policy language that can help application developers easily describe networking requirements.
Vendors haven always been quite so supportive of open source networking. Some networking vendors initially viewed the rising tide of open-source projects as a threat.
and around open source projects even as they look for synergies with their own product lines. The industry is now going through the process of deciding on
so it up to vendors to meet those customer requirements by filling in any gaps in their own distributions of the open-source software.
Testing and quality control in open source also may not be up to the network vendor standards for enterprise-ready products.
Indeed, many open source projects have been year awayfrom being operationally ready for a long time. However the consensus-driven process behind open-source projects moves much faster than that of traditional standards bodies like the IETF.
Many people don understand that open source takes a long time to mature. By accepting open source into the product development cycle, vendors give up some control over product delivery schedules.
If the community can agree, timelines will slip, and vendors who rely on open source for their own products will be forced to extend release schedules.
Customers may expect vendors to build and release products at the same pace as they did before,
But these initiatives are establishing new standards for software components at a much faster pace than the traditional standards process ever did.
Open source networking stakes out the middle ground between the traditional, slow-moving standards process and the rapid pace of product development and innovation possible with more proprietary designs.
so that even the most sophisticated ad blocking software can block your ads. e only work with top premium publishers,
-and-mouse game between ad blocking contributors and Secret Media. Montagnon, Julien Romanetto and the rest of the team have been flying under the radar for the past few months not to raise awareness.
But, according to an Adobe study, 26 percent of U s.-based Internet users installed an ad blocker.
#Elemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson A company called Elemental Path is developing a new line of smart toys for children
which will be powered by the super computing system IBM Watson, enabling the toys to engage in real and personalized conversations with kids,
Co-founded by Donald Coolidge and JP Benini, previously of software development shop Majestyk Apps,
which allowed them access to the IBM Watson technology, making them the first toy company to be able to tap into the system.
and tablets much more than most parents would like them to, when the benefits are not very clear,
texturized rubber similar to that of a Leapfrog tablet. On the toy front, there a big button that,
and a small piece of hardware that connects to the cloud. s a connected device,
With the IBM Watson-powered system, the toy is able to listen and respond to questions and return its answers quickly within a second or much less,
The software could be used in other applications as well including kidsapps. Based in Manhattan, the startup has a small amount of funding from friends and family,
The startup plans to add more hardware devices in the future and is working on a series of partnerships with major retail brands to sell the devices to consumers That could possibly save the American consumer a lot of time and money.
as part of ios 7. With ios 8, Apple made its so-called said ill switchactive by default, in accordance with California regulation,
for instance, will have it on be given default that they shipped with ios 8 pre-installed. Stats from last year indicated that Apple implementation of the Activation Lock were having a significant effect,
but Apple combined ios 8 adoption rate (currently at over 70 percent) and the fact that it now on by default means that the risk associated with stealing a modern ios device is even greater.
The aim is to make smartphone theft ultimately as futile as stealing a credit card, whereby a user ancellingtheir hardware renders it ultimately useless.
Smartphone theft is often theft of opportunity meaning a thief weighs reward vs. risk, including factors like how difficult it is to recoup an investment on something theye taken.
including a video game i
#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:
Overstock and even Microsoft, hopped onto the cryptocurrency to give customers an alternative avenue for payments. he integration with Bitnet platform will make Rakuten one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world to begin accepting bitcoin,
They weren showing a case with a direct connection to your phone over Lightning or USB
Along with printing photos as you take them or from your camera roll, itl also come with an app that brings a nifty augmented reality feature,
If we bring manufacturing of big hardware (home appliances, vehicles) within 100 miles of the most densely populated areas in the world,
I spent three years in China where companies like Foxconn built huge cities that can make any small hardware device anything that fits in a shoebox.
and the private sector together and provide access to super computers and the ORNL Manufacturing Demonstration Facility to solve the most pressing challenges facing manufacturing today.
because you can bring hardware and software to market at unprecedented rates with a much smaller amount of capital through crowdsourcing,
GNU and other open-source licenses that grant users more free rein to modify and sometimes market software while protecting attribution and creators wishes.
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
Students can access lessons and visual exercises through their own tablets or smartphones. urrently what you will find is that the special education market is fragmented extremely
While the growing affordability of tablets and platforms like Teachmate365 have provided new tools for students with special needs
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
It operates on a detachable Bluetooth-enabled motherboard with a built-in GPS. Weight sensors embedded within the handle let you know
There even a built-in 37-watt lithium-ion battery and a USB plug so you can power your smartphone up to six times while on the go.
It also comes with an easy-to-access laptop compartment so you can pull out your computer right before the security line.
Gil and his four cofounders Tomi Pierucci Alejo Verlini Brian Chen and Martin Diz are in Y Combinator current batch of companies
He says he was just building something he thought could have saved him some trouble one time on a trip home to Argentina. was trying to bring a bunch of electronics some ipads home to my family for Christmas.
What he needed now was understood someone who hardware. His friend and fellow Argentinian Pierucci was his guy.
He had hardware experience and a Phd in aerospace engineering. Saez-Gil figured he be a good person to spit-ball ideas with
The two brought in three other founders to the team to help with the logistics it would take to combine both hardware and software.
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
#GIF Camera App Camoji Adds Keyboard Integration Ability To Instantly Share With Reddit In an age in
the appearance of actors on a screen could in no way substitute for one inner conflicts. That brings us to Camoji
The app can now be used directly from the smartphone keyboard, thanks to the progressive thought leadership of Apple and its recent opening up to third parties.
and connects to your phone, tablet, or laptop over Bluetooth. With that said, there are some nifty functions on the marker itself.
Towards the non-writing end of each marker case, there a small ring of blue, red or black.
#Scientists Make Energy-Generating Keyboard That Knows Who#s Typing On it Passwords continue to be a glaring weakness in digital security.
So what about tightening the security screw further by applying a continuous biometric such as a keyboard that knows who typing on it in real-time
and typing style the nonmechanical keyboard is able to generate energy to power itself and self cleans thanks to a dirt repellent coating
The low profile keys have a top electrification layer that allows them to generate charge from typing friction (aka contact electrification) so the keyboard is able to register individual keystroke data
or to harness typing friction to generate electrical charge for powering other devices he keyboard identify the force and speed at which the typer input characters.
The keyboard can identify personality in information input so that it is a high level of securityzhong Lin Wang one of the scientists involved in the research told Techcrunch. he power generated can automatically send signals to the computer
so that no power is needed for the keyboard. n a paper detailing the research project called Personalized Keystroke Dynamics for Self-Powered Humanachine Interfacing published in the ACSNANO journal the scientists argue that algorithms which can identify who is typing by analyzing keystroke timing are limited more than their hardware-based
approach of yping-induced electric signalsas the latter is also able to sense pressure as well as speed
No external power source is required for the keyboard to function thanks to its self-powering abilities.
So it is evidently a more energy-efficient alternative to tracking typing via capacitive data that could be harvested from typing on a touchscreen keyboard.
How much energy can be generated by typing on the smart keyboard? Enough to charge mall electronics at arbitrary typing speed greater than 100 characters per minaccording to the team
Then software takes over the task of finding correlation, and a step beyond that companies may turn to prediction capabilities that will tune themselves.
and software that can begin to make better use of the data the sensors are collecting.
he says SAP is one of a number of companies including IBM, Microsoft and countless startups working on making better predictions.
As Herzberg says, once you have been able to collect the data from a sensors, you can begin to build increasingly complex sets of predictions. ou can start modeling
#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning
states that Microsoft email system Outlook was subjected recently to a an-in-the-middleattack in China.
and SMTP for Outlook were affected but the web interfaces for Microsoft webmail services were not.
That is Outlook. com and Login. live. com were affected not. The attack continued for a about a day
and has stopped since the report states. Affected users were shown warning messages in their email clients that weren as immediately worrisome as those web browsers display which means that some users may not have been aware that an attack was taking place.
For example in an example screenshot Greatfire. org posted an iphone warning message says annot Verify Server Identitybut asks
which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft
What happens when a Chinese user accesses Outlook in their email client: The attack comes within a month of China blocking Gmail
or have allowed willingly the attack to happenwrites Greatfire. org in its report. f our accusation is correct this new attack signals that the Chinese authorities are intent on further cracking down on communication methods that they cannot readily monitor. ee reached out to Microsoft for comment on this attack
a new ios software framework that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. Researchkit lets people take tests like saying hhhto detect vocal variations, walking in a line,
Researchkit will be open source. Researchkit will be available next month, and the first five tests built with it will become available today.
With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
coupled with a battery powered Lifi mobile unit attached to a laptop screen, allows users to roam within a room,
#Xiaomi Buys 3%Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68m Xiaomi became the world third largest smartphone company based on sales last year
Its early deals have largely been in hardware but today it announced PDF plans to put money into games and software by buying 2. 98 percent of Kingsoft for HK$527 million ($68 million).
Kingsoft started out developing PC games but today the company which is listed in Hong kong and valued at over $2 billion produces security entertainment and enterprise products too.
It already has strong links to Xiaomi whose CEO and cofounder Lei Jun is also founder and chairman of Kingsoft.
because it is a sign of Xiaomi intention to increase its focus on software and services.
Its deals to date have circled around hardware including a $200 million investment in appliance maker Midea
With a burgeoning family of hardware and smart home products including an air purifier blood test device smart TV
and requires the developers to cease all use of Apple software and destroy related materials.
This has resulted in some sites like Github getting blocked and others like Intel shutting down some of their online operations u
The HIPAA compliant Saas software has been rolled out to several paying customers in the U s. healthcare sector so far
machine learning prediction engine at the core of their platform, say cofounders Brent Newhouse and Mudit Garg.
The software weighs up demand probabilities and considers the various costs involved, meaning financial costs such as staffing and beds but also care costs, so crucial factors such as quality of service and patient satisfaction,
More than a dashboard This predictive core they argue sets the product apart from rival software products
The team third cofounder, Ian Christopher, brings the algorithmic expertise having worked on predictive software while at Stanford.
An ios app called Signal is a project out of Open Whisper Systems, a not-for-profit collective of hackers dedicated to making it harder for prying government eyes to get a hold of your information.
For those who want to share with their friends on Android the community organization currently has two Android apps Textsecure
and Redphone that need to be combined to do the same thing as Signal does on ios. Textsecure is the text message solution
and Redphone is encrypted the phone-call solution. The plan is to combine those two into one Android app for Signal users.
Recent security breaches and other events have prompted a number of apps to emerge that promise encrypted communications between mobile phones.
Signal code is open source. This means anyone can go to Github and use the source code to create encrypted apps.
Whatsapp recently incorporated Open Whisper System code into the Android version of its app. e want as many people as possible to have embedded the capability within their apps
and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.
and artificial intelligence projects in academic labs and at companies like Google Twitter and Intel. Facebook today is optimized launching tools to increase the speed at
One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously. Another improvement ensures that training the convolutional neural nets at the center of many deep learning systems can be trained 23 times faster
(or at least their results) are slowly starting to show up in a lot of the software we use every day.
And at CES last week Nvidia spent most of its keynote discussing how it uses deep learning to classify objects that a camera on a car may see in order to further its research in autonomous driving o
and software to help them fly, detect obstacles and make sense of terabytes of data they collect.
Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns. This is a job well-suited to drones,
Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops
and detect weeds, and they can even count plants. These kinds of drones are using fixed wings,
and be driven by a computer, guiding your destination while avoiding all other air traffic. Youl leave roads, traffic lights, traffic jams and accidents behind.
and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth. There are very few companies out there today creating software to make drones safer.
What about systems to manage where drones can and cannot legally go? How will we know who owns a drone when the next one crashes into a famous person lawn?
and software is going to have to be built to make all of these dreams a reality. There are so many great applications for drones,
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft Yammer Slack Convo Socialcast and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the nterprise social networkspace.
because employees don want to use the software. It yet another new thing to learn and doesn feel essential.
A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
There no reason to believe the company will stop Google Microsoft Telenav or Here from offering its mapping services on its platform though.
The members in the Genivi alliance besides Ford include the likes of BMW Honda Nissan renault Volvo and John Deere as well as chip manufacturers like Intel Qualcomm and Nvidia and plenty of aftermarket manufacturers.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
the USB port needs to be dry. The M4 Aqua will have a starting price of 299 EUR
Swipentap. com a POS ipad app. Integreight which develops novel products for the electronic hobbyist and education market.
Zex a mobile ad platform that serves offers to users smartphone via their lock-screens Eventus for creating and analysis social events.
And it can power all your mobile devices for weeks. kraftwerk which translates to ower stationin German is the product of ezelleron an engineering team that spun out of German research firm Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
Touted as emergency preparedness for the outdoorsy type with an ipad it was a bit clunky looking.
It will charge anything that can be plugged into a USB cable such as your iphone tablet or even a Gopro.
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
#Square Cash Integrates Touch ID To Send Money Using Your Fingerprint Square Cash Square Venmo competitor that lets you use the app to transfer money to other people has added a new feature to its ios app that some might say is long overdue:
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The apps draw relevant data from a car computer via the OBD port letting you do things like feed the exact mileage from a particular drive into Concur to expense a work trip
which points to corresponding apps on ios and Android respective app stores. The app is designed to help drivers determine their actual income taking fuel costs
so we should have a video review of the new hardware and apps shortly o
Let not forget that at the end of the day Facebook is most definitely an ad network at its core.
Interestingly, the system also allows you to give eye tests by showing increasingly smaller letters and figures on the screen.
This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
The Elgato Eve is a set of connected wireless sensors that monitor key factors like indoor air quality, temperature, humidity as well as conditions outside, like temperature, humidity and air pressure.
ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
when theye away from home using Apple TV (generation 3 or later with OS version 7. 0 or later),
Connected thermostat maker ecobee is adding Homekit to its ecobee3 hardware, which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control.
Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time, letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area.
The Caséta Smart Bridge is a wireless lighting hub that makes up a core part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit from the company.
the company is also now offering up a brand new version of its Insteon+app for ios 8. 1 or later,
and are running ios 8. 1 or later. Set up and discovery is handled automatically just by tapping,
It can either be plugged into the Square Stand USB hub, or merchants can charge the reader battery
or plug it into the Square Stand USB hub. The partnership announcement came during Apple WWDC conference keynote,
Add in a text-to-pay service like Rhombus and youe got Williamsburg catnip. This new app allows people to pay you via a special contact number.
and customers. he system works with any phone and requires no hardware. The system can also text you a list of Rhombus-enabled businesses. ustomers don have to signup to chat with businesses, it like texting anyone on your contact list.
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