Facebook’s recent announcement about rewriting its iOS app from HTML5 to native Objective C, and their plans follow suit with Android, has generated a lot of buzz about performance gains in native apps over HTML5/JavaScript web apps. “Twice as fast” has been the scientific measure cited by most of the reporting agencies. Native apps...
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Dell’s Project Sputnik, an experiment to test the waters of building a laptop focused on the needs of software developers, announced just in May, is now being set to launch this year (pun intended). Leveraging the power of open-source platforms and the communities that support them, Sputnik couples the XPS13 Ultrabook with Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.04,...
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Today I will be showing you how to setup a virtualized cloud server on rackspace.com cloud hosting, using an Arch Linux base install. After we get the virtual machine up and running with Arch, we’ll install the Apache, PHP, and MySQL web server stack to get a web server running. If you don’t know,...
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At the Google I/O 2012 conference keynote, Google announced the Android Nexus 7 tablet, and it is nothing short of a game-changer. Here are some of the specs of this amazing mobile tablet device: 7-inch tablet 1280 x 800 High Defintion display NVidia Tegra 3 Quad Core processor (cpu) 12 GPU cores Android 4.1 Jelly...
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