The archive contains 40TB of material–some 200,000 document pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 reels of film and 1,500 photos. – A half-century has gone by since President John F. Kennedy declared his famous call to action on that frigid Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1961: quot;Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. quot;
Next week, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library amp; Museu…
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces version 0.7 of the Cassandra open-source distributed database. –
The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache Cassandra version 0.7, a
second-generation, open-source distributed database.
ASF officials said new features in Cassandra 0.7 include
secondary indexes, which represent an expressive way to query data through
node-local storage on the…
Ezra Holdings, the provider of integrated offshore support and marine services to energy companies, has launched the EMAS Academy, a $10 million maritime training institute dedicated to advancing safety and operational standards in the industry and equipping crews with all the specialised skills they need to handle intricate offshore operations.
NEW MUSIC FROM BREAK SCIENCE AND PAPER DIAMOND DUE OUT JANUARY 25
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Fresh off an incredibly successful year, Derek Vincent Smith (aka Pretty Lights) is ready to give his
fans a gift to start the New Year off right- the announcement of his own record label,
Pretty Lights Music, which will release
free new music in early 2011. Derek’s objectives are simple- he wants to
supply his fans, and fans of electronic music at large, with free music from the artists he believes in and
supports.
Today, he’s thrilled to announce two new digital releases (in addition to Michal Menert) on Pretty Lights
Music, both
due out January 25. Break
Science will be releasing their new EP, Further Than Our Eyes Can See, and Paper Diamond will be dropping his
debut EP, Levitate.
Download Paper Diamond’s MP3 “From Now Till” here
Download Break Science’s MP3 “Zion Station” here
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Amazon launches a new Appstore Developer Portal for mobile app developers who want to sell their Android apps on the Amazon platform. – Amazon.com has launched the Amazon Appstore Developer Portal to enable mobile application developers to sell their apps using the strength of Amazons platform.
In short, Amazon is getting “appy” with it, according to a blog post from the Amazon Appstore team. The new Amazon Appstore Developer Porta…
Both products are provided as a software-as-a-service (SAAS) application and are aimed at midmarket businesses. – Sales and marketing automation solutions specialist ViVOforce announced the
launch of two products designed to meet the marketing and sales challenges of
small to medium-size business clients and enterprise clients. Both products are
provided as a SAAS (software-as-a-service) application, meaning…
The European satellite is designed to provide consumers with access to faster broadband Internet. – The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat
Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M
rocket supplied by International Launch Services. Built for Eutelsat by Astrium
using the Eurostar E3000 platform, the KA-SAT
is a new generation of multi-spotbeam satellite. Its concept …
Microsoft has created a new Web site called HTML5 Labs for developers to test new and evolving specs that are still evolving and not yet stable enough for inclusion in IE9. – Microsoft has launched a new site for prototyping new HTML5 specifications that are still under development and not quite ready for primetime.
In various Dec. 21 blog posts, Microsoft unveiled its new HTML5 Labs Web site, “a place where we prototype early and not yet fully stable drafts of specific…
In his first show of strength since leaving the Congress party last month, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Tuesday launched a 48-hour fast along with over 100,000 farmers, demanding relief for the crops lost in recent rains. The former Kadapa MP, who turns 38 Tuesday, began the fast along with his supporters on the banks of Krishna [...]
Seagate followed up on Constellation.2 with a high-performance eco-friendly desktop drive for green computers and storage. – Seagate Technologies on Dec. 14 officially launched the Barracuda Green, a
high-performance eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive.
Formerly known as Barracuda LP (low power), the new drive is designed and
built to the quot;highest quot; environmental standards, said Seagate. The new
drives use fe…
Apaches new Google-hosted “Apache Extras” site provides a "home away from home" for code associated with Apache projects. – The Apache Software Foundation has announced a
new Google-hosted site to spur innovation on open-source efforts that
feature code associated with Apache projects.
The new site is known as Apache Extras and can
be found at apache-extras.org. ASF officials said the site is for code
associated wit…
Trademarkia’s social management tools provide a free brand username search and alert for businesses when their brand names are misused. – To help small businesses protect their brand assets against squatters and
hijackers in the social media space, Trademarkia, a legal search engines,
announced the launch of its social brand management tools designed to help
enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to manage and defend their b…
As she’s winding down her famous talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, the queen of daytime counts down to OWN – The Oprah Winfrey Network – launching on Jan. 1, 2011. OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is set to replace the Discovery Health Channel. The channel’s theme song will be “OWN It!†— recorded by [...]
Elastic Cloud X2-2 is the cloud middleware expressly designed for Oracle’s SPARC Exalogic, which is the company’s new hardware platform for cloud systems. – Oracle on Dec. 8 launched Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, a new-generation Java application infrastructure for virtual machines.
The announcement was made at OracleOpenWorld Brazil in Sao Paulo.
The Elastic Cloud X2-2 is the cloud middleware expressly designed for
Oracle’s SPARC Exalogic, which …
ActiveState’s new Amazon-based cloud service enables Python developers to build and deploy secure enterprise cloud applications. – ActiveState has announced it is
delivering its ActivePython Community and Business Editions of its Python development environment as part of a
pre-built Python-centric AMI (Amazon Machine
Image) for the Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2).
ActiveState,
which focuses on dynamic language…
Google Dec. 6 trotted out its long-awaited and delayed Google eBookstore, offering hundreds of thousands of paid titles and more than 2 million free titles, totaling 3 million-plus works. With so many titles at launch, eBooks is certainly an aggressive alternative to Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad and Barnes & Noble’s Nook electronic reading platforms. What differentiates Google eBooks from those services is that there is no dedicated device for the books to run on. Google encourages users to search and pay for hundreds of thousands of titles from publishers and read them on their desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Book content, which includes more than 2 million free titles scanned into the Google Books platform, is not tethered to specific devices, but procured from the cloud. Google did, however, provide free e-reader applications for the Android and Apple iOS platforms, allowing users to read books from Android handsets and tablets, as well as Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices. These applications are available from the Google eBookstore here now. eWEEK offers a brief visual tour of what these apps look like on Android devices, iPads and iPhones. – …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Route 53, its new Domain Name System (DNS) service. – Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon Route 53, a Domain Name
System Web service giving developers and businesses a highly available
and reliable way to route Internet traffic to Web applications by
translating human readable names into numeric IP addresses.
Amazon Route 53 can be used to ro…
Infragistics’ new Motion Framework is aimed at Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). – Infragistics, a maker of user interface development tools, has announced a
new motion framework for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications.
The new Motion Framework API,
integrated into Infragistics Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation
(WPF) xamDataChart, enables Extensible A…
The new guidance includes information clarifying that a broad range of employers meet the eligibility requirements. – HealthPass, a New York City-based nonprofit commercial health insurance
exchange for small to midsize businesses, announced that it has posted on its Website
information on the just-released Internal Revenue Service final guidance on the
small business health care tax credits. The small-business …
