Sorry, only in France until the Shield hits the US in May, the first Ultra HD Android TV device is on the market.

Google is going after Microsoft in the digital signage market.

Suse has updated it's OpenStack implementation to OpenStack Juno, rebranded the product based no new OpenStack naming rules and moved it to running on a stock Suse Linux control plane.

Howto Forge on How to Install MaraDNS on CentOS 7. MiraDB is a lightweight DNS server that is often used instead of the more famous BIND.

IBM has identified, announced and exploited a bug in the DropBox SDK. This exploit is especially dangerous as it is in the SDK rather than just in DropBox itself. This means that many applications made using the SDK may also be impacted. So the risk is potentially quite difficult to identify as any application that uses DropBox might carry the vulnerability.

HP and Foxconn have announced a joint venture to manufacture open compute devices named CloudLine.

First Look at Microsoft's Office 2016 for Mac. Finally closing the gap with PC versions.

Facebook has reporting saving over $2,000,000,000 USD by leveraging Open Compute in their datacenters.

DNS and Content Delivery super power CloudFlare has released a new security service called Virtual DNS aimed at tackling Denial of Service attacks.

On accident, ownCloud pushed its beta release test out as production 8.0.1 causing some issues. A quick fix was released and ownCloud is now stable and production ready on 8.0.2.

Great quote from the article: A waterproof safe dropped into the deepest part of the ocean is not as 'secure' as it is useless

An article focused on UNIX but applicable to everyone. Don't lose sight of the goals. Security has a reason to exist, it does not exist for its own sake. Too often IT professionals lose sight of the goal and begin to implement security at any cost, even at the cost of stopping productivity and being the equivalent of a denial of service attack on their own organization.

UNIX Best Practices on It's About Protecting Productivity

Mozilla's FireFox 37 will feature new mechanisms for validating SSL certificates.

Finally, Valve's Steam has opened the Steam Machine Store selling real Steam Machines, Steam Links and other gear.

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Who would have thought that BitTorrent would target business users.

This has come up a bit recently and InfoWorld has picked up on the trend too. Increasingly as the use of JavaScript increases, its limitations are starting to be felt more and more and developers are increasingly turning to variant languages that compile to JS so that they do not need to work in JS natively.

InfoWorld has a Roundup of Nineteen Free Programming Guides.

More on the Apple Watch: the iPhone Sales Engine.

Apple's new MacBook is an impressive feat of engineering.