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Rugged COM Express board serves up soldered Core 2 DuoTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3:26PMGE Intelligent Platforms announced a rugged COM Express module with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The Linux-ready bCOM2-L1100 offers soldered processors and memory, shock and vibration protection, an extended temperature version, RAID support, and an optional carrier board, the company says.

Apple's draconian developer docs revealedTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3:08PMThe first rule of iPhone Club is... In the 1999 movie Fight Club , Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Buffalo and DD-WRT Collaborate to Create the Most Comprehensive Consumer and Small Business Wireless OfferingTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:22PMBuffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking and network and direct attached storage solutions announced the next step in the partnership with NewMedia-NET to deliver DD-WRT based software as a standard configuration across Buffalo's array of high power routers and access points. Â DD-WRT, long a mainstay in the open source ...

New Machine-Learning Techniques Revolutionises Software DevelopmentTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:57PMNew automation techniques enables software to run faster and to use less energy on re-configurable embedded processors, shortening the software development cycle (PRWeb Mar 9, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3701714.htm

Colorado State University and rSmart Host Webinar for Kuali Financial System ImplementationTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:38PMPHOENIX----rSmart, the provider of enterprise support for open source application software in education, today announced it will be hosting a webinar with Colorado State University to share its experiences and results with implementing and running the open source Kuali Financial System. rSmart provided implementation services for CSU and helped the institution meet its “go live” deadline of July ...

Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL OffshootTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:19PMRackspace is getting involved in the development of Drizzle, a MySQL offshoot.

3.5-inch SBC offers dual-core AtomTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:11PMAvalue announced a 3.5-inch SBC (single board computer) using Intel's dual-core, 1.66GHz Intel Atom D510. The ECM-PNV accepts up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, has CompactFlash and Mini PCI Express slots, includes six serial ports, and has two SATA interfaces, the company says.

Linux-ready plug-in enables IPv6 traffic over IPv4 netsTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 12:11PMAccess subsidiary IP Infusion announced a new Linux-ready "stateless tunneling" product that enables the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

Shut down the patent office?Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:29AMLast week, I took Apple to task for launching the patent nukes against HTC. This week, I try to explain why patents are so corrosive within a software development context.