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Microsoft is another step away from it's money-printing all-consuming behavior (i think so). Here is what you get in 2015. Windows 10, free to update: Windows 10 will be a free update, for users running Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 on PCs or notebooks, and for Windows Phone 8.1 users on mobile. It's Spartaaaaaa...n: A new browser is coming, called Spartan with reading and PDF markup mode built-in. Windows 10 mobile ecosystem: Windows 10 mobile now syncs with desktop, tablet and many other devices. Free Office Suite for Wondows mobile: I hoped for something better ! .... and Office 2016 will be released in 2015. Microsoft HoloLens? Hmm, now this is new. This is an 'Augmented Reality' device extending Windows 10. Teckcrunch

yep, I have some of Lynda tutorial product and I have enjoy it , latest news, they aquired by LinkedIn, good move for LinkedIn this is the news ; LinkedIn has always been helpful if you're seeking a job, but now it can train you for one too, thanks to a $1.5 billion deal to acquire Lynda.com. That site offers nearly 3,500 courses by subscription on subjects ranging from web design to leadership body language, all taught by industry experts. Citing the obvious synergy between the companies, LinkedIn said that the deal would help job-seekers "know what skills are need for available jobs in a desired city... and then be prompted to take the relevant and accredited courses to acquire this skill." source : http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/09/linkedin-acquires-lynda-com/

This has put the company in a tough spot, but its extensive R&D capacity really makes it a desired target for acquisition. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about such buy-outs, most recently Mediatek was cited as a prospective buyer, but none of the plans has actually stuck. A new rumor now hints that Samsung might have its sight set on the struggling semiconductor company. The benefits of such a deal could potentially be plentiful for both sides. Samsung would acquire a lot of know-how and research potential. Not to mention a formidable portfolio of patents that AMD has acquired throughout the years. The Korean tech giant has been doing really well with its custom Exynos chipsets recently and the latest Exynos 7420 model has shown such huge potential in the new 14nm realm that the company might, quite justifiable, decide to start offering in to third-party companies. The reality, however, is that, while the Exynos chip has managed to crush its competition in terms of performance, it is still based on off-the-shelf ARM technology, namely the Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57 and Mali-T760 MP8 CPU and GPU. In the meantime, competitors, such as Qualcomm and Intel have custom chip designs of their own, which could give them an edge down the road. With the help of AMD, Samsung cane remedy this and perhaps entirely shake itself off from the dependence on Qualcomm or generic ARM technology. And then, there’s AMD. The sad truth is that, if such a buy-out does eventually occur, no matter what the other party is, AMD has one main thing to gain – much needed financial support. Samsung could be the company’s ticket back to the major leagues and a potential investment in mobile graphics research, could even allow AMD to license chips to third party vendors, other than the Korean giant down the road. On the flip side, though, there is the matter of AMD’s current z86 business. Samsung appears to have little use for it, judging by the company’s withdrawal from PC markets in recent years. Of course, this does not necessarily mean that AMD will completely sack its PC CPU and GPU units and most likely the chips will remain in production by third party manufacturers. But the buy-out might lead to a refocus of effort and potentially hinder development of new technologies on this front. source : http://blog.gsmarena.com/amd-might-soon-become-part-samsung-family

As developers migrated away from Google Code, a growing share of the remaining projects were spam or abuse. Lately, the administrative load has consisted almost exclusively of abuse management. After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has become clear to us that the service simply isn’t needed anymore. Beginning today, we have disabled new project creation on Google Code. We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on January 25th, 2016. Below, we provide links to migration tools designed to help you move your projects off of Google Code. We will also make ourselves available over the next three months to those projects that need help migrating from Google Code to other hosts. March 12, 2015 - New project creation disabled. August 24, 2015 - The site goes read-only. You can still checkout/view project source, issues, and wikis. January 25, 2016 - The project hosting service is closed. You will be able to download a tarball of project source, issues, and wikis. These tarballs will be available throughout the rest of 2016. Google will continue to provide Git and Gerrit hosting for certain projects like Android and Chrome. We will also continue maintaining our mirrors of projects like Eclipse, kernel.org and others. source : http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html R.I.P Google Code

PHP 7, a major update to the server-side scripting language due next year, will offer performance improvements and more capabilities, along with deprecation of some existing features. The release will be anchored by performance enhancements derived from the phpng branch of the PHP tree. Officials from PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies discussed the progress of phpng and PHP 7 at the company’s ZendCon conference in Silicon Valley this week. “[The upgrade is] really focused on helping real-world applications perform significantly faster and plus, we’re going to have additional improvements in PHP,” said Zend CEO Andi Gutmans, who has been involved in the ongoing development of PHP. Recent versions of PHP have been part of the 5.x release series, but there will be no PHP 6. “We’re going to skip [version] 6 because years ago, we had plans for a 6 but those plans were very different from what we’re doing now,” Gutmans said. Going right to version 7 avoids confusion. The phpng improvements in version 7 have been focused on areas such as hash tables and memory allocation. A chart on the state of phpng as of this month, presented at the conference, had the technology producing a 35 percent speedup on synthetic tests; 20 to 70 percent performance improvements on real applications, including a 60 percent improvement on WordPress home pages, and better memory consumption for most useful server APIs. The technology supports most PHP extensions bundled into the PHP source distribution and provides speed comparable to the HHVM 3.3.0 open source virtual machine. A PHP developer at the conference expressed optimism about phpng. “Obviously, speed is the most important thing to a Web app or any app in general,” said developer Pete Nystrom, vice president of engineering and co-founder at Classy.org, an online fundraising platform. While recognizing it would be a while before the technology was available in tools, Nystrom understands what's at stake. “Obviously, going into the core and speeding up all these functions that are core to PHP is a massive undertaking and something that’s going to be great for all of us.” Also on tap for PHP is elimination of some existing features. “We’re going to deprecate some old functionality that we think is not that interesting anymore,” Gutmans said. Ext/ereg and ext.mysql are on the deprecation list and have both been replaced by other extensions. Other deprecated features include # style comments in ini files and string category names in setlocale(). source : http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841561/php/php-7-moves-full-speed-ahead.html

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will define the next generation of technology infrastructure, software and services for the New Style of IT HP Inc. will be the leading personal systems and printing company delivering innovations that will empower people to create, interact and inspire like never before Strategic step provides each new company with the focus, financial resources and flexibility to adapt quickly to market and customer dynamics while generating long-term value for shareholders Highlights: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will build upon HP’s leading position in servers, storage, networking, converged systems, services and software as well as its OpenStack Helion cloud platform Meg Whitman to be President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise; Pat Russo to be Chairman of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Board HP Inc. will be the leading personal systems and printing company with a strong roadmap into the most exciting new technologies like 3D printing and new computing experiences Dion Weisler to be President and Chief Executive Officer of HP Inc.; Meg Whitman to be Chairman of the HP Inc. Board Company reiterates fiscal 2014 non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share (EPS) outlook of $3.70 to $3.74 and updates GAAP diluted net EPS outlook to $2.60 to $2.64 Company issues fiscal 2015 non-GAAP diluted net EPS outlook of $3.83 to $4.03 and GAAP diluted net EPS outlook of $3.23 to $3.43 source : http://gisuser.com/2014/10/hp-to-separate-into-two-new-industry-leading-public-companies/

Hi all, I have few question,may be not allowed to do so, in this beloved forum.. 1..Can anyone tell me what is the consequences i m gonna face if i use crack software for a research work and wanna publish in a reputed journal? Will i have to face any question like have u used licensed version or not? or any type of query in the near future like this or how much secure is it. In a nutshell what i wanna is: I have crack software that gonna be used in the research work and i not in a state to buy these softs- what upshots gonna happened.... 2..As a newbie, can i publish a research work done by me lonely- i mean only one author, corresponding or first author is me in a high to mid impact-factored journals.Is it the fact is that as neophyte i have to resort to a skilled and high-measured researcher in the author list- is it the fact? Thanks in advance...