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Half a million sales expected for Firefox OS phones in India: Intex Summary:  The maker of a new $33 smartphone billed as India's cheapest says it aims to sell half a million in the next three months in what it called a 'new era' for the market. Indian mobile phone maker Intex has teamed up with California-based Mozilla — the non-profit organisation behind the Firefox open-source web browser — to create a cheaper alternative to Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones. Intex  handset, which went on sale this week, is aimed at first-time smartphone buyers, and is the cheapest yet to hit the market. "We're moving into a new era in smartphones", Intex spokesperson. "This is a user-friendly handset that can help people onto smartphones and onto the internet. "We have big expectations that this phone will find a large market, and we are expecting 500,000 sales in the first three months." The company is initi...

Most popular open-source cloud projects of 2014 Summary:  OpenStack leads, but the still wet-behind-the-ears Docker is gaining fast.      At  CloudOpen , a  Linux Foundation  tradeshow held in conjunction with  LinuxCon , the Foundation announced that an online survey of open-source cloud professionals found  OpenStack to be the most popular overall project . Most popular open-source cloud projects That wasn't surprising. Although OpenStack is only four years old, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud project is very popular with support from such industry giants HP, Red Hat, and VMware. What was somewhat surprising was that number two was Docker, the just-over-a-year old container technology. It's no news that Docker is hotter than hot, but to go from nowhere to the second most popular project in 12 months? That's amazing and speaks to its rockstar rise in popularity. Behind those two, you'll fin...

Microsoft weighs new names for its TechEd conference successor Summary:  Microsoft is surveying select users and partners about what it should name its unified IT pro show slated for next year. Here are the names said to be on the short list. Microsoft is surveying select customers and partners about what it should name its new catch-all conference that is replacing TechEd and a number of other product-specific shows. According to some of those surveyed, Microsoft's short list of names under consideration for the new show include: Microsoft officials announced in July that the company is consolidating its TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange conferences into a single, new unified tech conference that will be held in Chicago. The new IT-Pro-focused event is slated for the week of May 4, 2015. Microsoft Current Microsoft Co: Microsoft Forsee (not sure if that's a typo) Microsoft 4C Microsoft GO Microsoft Tomorrow M...

ownCloud 7 pulls in users and open source developers Summary:  ownCloud, the open source private cloud for small to medium sized businesses, pulls in great developer support with its latest release. Sure you could join everyone else and put your data on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, or you could use the latest ownCloud 7 to run your own private cloud. ownCloud makes it easy to run your own private cloud using any storage your company is already using. There's an enormous range of cloud options, but the newly released  ownCloud 7 Community Edition  is a great one for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) that value their privacy.  What  ownCloud  brings to the table is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud. In the company's own words, ownCloud gives users a "a 'Dropbox-like' experience while complementing the security and privacy on the back end." The program also comes with mobile web browser support, Android an...

Can a Surface Pro 3 with docking station replace your desktop PC? Summary: In its ads, Microsoft says the Surface Pro 3 is "the tablet that can replace your laptop." With the addition of a new docking station, the Surface Pro has its eye on your desktop PC, too. In its ads for the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft calls the latest release of its flagship Windows device “the tablet that can replace your laptop.”With the help of a new Surface add-on, that same hybrid device can now replace your desktop as well. I received an early production model of the Surface Pro Docking Station, which is available for preorder now and shipping later this month. For $190, it allows a Surface Pro 3 owner to snap the lightweight tablet into a frame that holds it firmly in place, transforming it into a full-fledged (albeit compact) Windows desktop in seconds. You can use that configuration as is, adding only an external keyboard and mouse. But...