Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued

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Yahoo has long worked closely with Facebook, using the social network to power sign-up and login of its email service and Flickr. Just 11 days ago, Facebook congratulated Yahoo in a blog post noting its Open Graph protocol had helped Yahoo’s news reader app gain 25 million users, including 2 million each day, and more than 500,000 referrals a day. I doubt we’ll see such courtesies between these two anytime soon.

via Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued | TechCrunch.

cobbler

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Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in some cases, changing existing ones.

With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, media-based net-installs, and virtualized installs (supporting Xen, qemu, KVM, and some variants of VMware). Cobbler uses a helper program called ‘koan’ (which interacts with Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support.

via cobbler.

InstallCDCustomization

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Suppose you are installing Ubuntu on a bunch of identical computers, and you already know the answers to certain questions (what country and time zone you’re in, what keyboard you have, how the network should be configured, how you want to partition the hard disk, etc). You can “preseed” the answers to these questions in a very simple configuration file.

via InstallCDCustomization – Community Ubuntu Documentation.

Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android Handsets

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At the floor, there will be a live demo using Android phones, as the Full-HD Voice codec AAC-ELD has been integrated. There’s an LTE network being set up at the show specifically for this demo. Unlike in mobile communications, Full-HD Voice is already established in several VoIP, video telephony and conferencing systems. “Every day, millions of users already make Full-HD Voice calls over IP connections,” said Harald Popp, head of the department Multimedia Realtime Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, “With the introduction of LTE, now is the perfect time to introduce Full-HD Voice to mobile communications as well. Our AAC-ELD audio codec is the perfect solution for all upcoming mobile Full-HD Voice services.”

via Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android Handsets – HotHardware.

3GPP Long Term Evolution

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3GPP Long Term Evolution, usually referred to as LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using new modulation techniques.[1][2] The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).

via 3GPP Long Term Evolution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Although commonly referred to as a type of 4G wireless service, LTE release 8 currently in use does not satisfy the requirements set forth by the ITU-R organization. Future releases of LTE (referred to as LTE Advanced) are expected to satisfy the requirements to be considered 4G.

iPXE – open source boot firmware [start]

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iPXE – open source boot firmware [start].

iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware. It provides a full PXE implementation enhanced with additional features such as:

  • boot from a web server via HTTP
  • boot from an iSCSI SAN
  • boot from a Fibre Channel SAN via FCoE
  • boot from an AoE SAN
  • boot from a wireless network
  • boot from a wide-area network
  • boot from an Infiniband network
  • control the boot process with a script

SIPphone

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SIPphone supports open standards aggressively. They sell PSTN calling by the minute, claiming that most flat rate plans are a poor deal for the consumer. SIPPhone has even sued competitors that sell locked ATA devices without proper disclosure to the consumer.

via SIPphone – voip-info.org.

SIPPhone offers three free softphones ( GizmoProject, X-Lite, and PhoneGaim ), and has a free-calling program All Calls Free under which registered users can call the landline and mobile phones of other Gizmo customers for free.