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Mobile computing, the cloud, APIs and social networking are opening doors to new business models and connections across employees, customers and partners. However, they are also spurring a proliferation of disparate resources that are difficult to access and often disconnected from enterprises strategic initiatives, core operational systems, and corporate policies. WSO2 is addressing this challenge with todays debut of WSO2 Enterprise Store, the first complete platform for managing and provisioning any type of digital assetapplications, APIs, gadgets, e-books and other resourcesacross the entire enterprise asset life cycle.

By 2017, 25% of enterprises will have an enterprise app store for managing corporate-sanctioned apps on PCs and mobile devices, Gartner predicts in the report, Enterprise App Stores Can Increase the ROI of the App Portfolio1. The report continues, Enterprise app stores can make end users aware of low-cost in-house, open-source and commercial alternatives, creating more diverse and competitive automated software requiring less procurement intervention.

The 100% open source WSO2 Enterprise Store expands on the concept of the enterprise application store. It enables IT organizations to set up their own Apple or Google Marketplace-like store where business users and developers alike can easily discover and subscribe to not only applications, but also APIs, e-books, gadgets, websites and any other asset types the enterprise chooses to offer. Only WSO2 provides a socially enabled enterprise store, so users can rate and review assets. Meanwhile, back-office life cycle management and governance ensure compliance with corporate and IT policies and procedures.

Todays connected businesses are capitalizing on technologies, such as the cloud, mobile, APIs and social networking, to gain a competitive edge through new models of agility, business collaboration, monetization and efficiency. However, accessing the many diverse assets supporting these initiatives is often like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. With the launch of our WSO2 Enterprise Store, organizations for the first time have a cohesive and comprehensive platform for effectively managing and accessing all of their digital assets while providing an intuitive, social consumer-like experience that fosters adoption.

WSO2 Enterprise Store for Access to Any Digital Asset

WSO2 Enterprise Store enables users to manage and provision the entire enterprise asset life cycle, for any type of asset in one store. It provides both an Enterprise Store Front and Enterprise Back-Office.

Enterprise Store Front

TheEnterprise Store Front is a central multi-tenant store that helps to increase the visibility of enterprise assets, and it can be viewed by a range of devices, including tablets. The customizable Store Front displays all asset types, as well as providing a navigation menu for them, and it can search based on asset attributes, tags or other categories. Each asset is given an individual page with comments, rating, tags and other details of the asset for easy reference, and users are provided a personalized My Items corner to display subscribed assets.

The Enterprise Store Front facilitates social interaction by allowing users to add asset reviews, rate assets, and like or dislike the asset reviews. The asset reviews are automatically filtered based on their popularity and date added, enabling users to gauge the quality of the available assets based on the user feedback. Users also can take advantage of filtering to sort by name and category.

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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has banned his children from owning a cell phone to protect them from cyber-bullies.

The Tv cook worries his children might be subjected to online bullying due to their famous father and does all he can to ensure they are not using social networking websites.

Oliver is a close friend of Instagram.com founder Kevin Systrom, and regularly updates his own social networking accounts with posts about his family and businesses, but he was furious when he discovered daughters Poppy, 11, and Daisy, 10, had secretly set up accounts on the photo sharing site.

He tells British magazine Closer, "I found out my two eldest girls had set up Instagram accounts in secret, which I was not happy about and soon put a stop to it. Poppy's the only girl in her class still not allowed a mobile. It may sound harsh, but I do worry about the bullying that can go on with these sites.

"I know the girls have had a hard time in the past at school because their dad's on Tv. I just don't want to risk it happening online too. It's impossible to keep an eye on."

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Social networking giant Facebook reported a 60% surge in revenue, to $2.02bn (1.26bn), in the third quarter, generating profits of $425m.

Revenue from advertising grew by 66% to $1.8bn, with nearly half of that coming from mobile ads.

"The strong results we achieved this quarter show that we're prepared for the next phase of our company," said Mark Zuckerberg in a statement.

Facebook's shares surged 15% in after hours trading.

Shares in the company have nearly doubled in value since July, when it first announced a big jump in its mobile advertising revenue.

The company has made a concerted push to boost its mobile offering, and now says that 874 million of the site's more than one billion users access Facebook on their phone.

Speaking during a conference call, Mr Zuckerburg called Facebook a "mobile company" and noted more than half of people are only using Facebook from their phones.

"It's a pretty incredible sign of how Facebook has evolved as a company," he said.

By growing its mobile users, the company has also been able to sell more mobile ads, a crucial metric that is widely watched by analysts.

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Networking titan Cisco Systems says it will open source its implementation of the H.264 video codec and release it as a free binary download.

This could make it easier for open-source projects to incorporate real-time streaming video into their software as the company has promised to cover the codec's patent-licensing fees.

"Cisco will not pass on our MPEG LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use in WebRTC," Cisco's Rowan Trollope said in a blog post on Wednesday.

Generally, any project that implements H.264 video must pay royalties to MPEG LA, the licensing body that manages the tangle of patents covering all aspects of streaming digital video.

That has led to a schism between web browser makers, with Google, in particular, choosing to forego H.264 support in favor of its homegrown VP8 codec, which it believes offers developers more favorable intellectual-property-licensing terms. (Others disagree.)

Some workarounds do exist. Microsoft has developed a plugin that allows Chrome to display H.264 video on Windows systems, for example. But getting every browser across every platform to support a common video codec has remained a challenge, particularly where free software is concerned.

This situation has been a stumbling block for WebRTC, the Worldwide Web Consortium's new standard for two-way real-time audio and video communications, because obviously getting two browsers to talk to each other requires them both to speak the same language.

According to Mozilla Foundation CTO Brendan Eich, Cisco's move should soon make it possible for any application to decode H.264 video without worrying about licensing implications and without paying any additional royalties to MPEG LA.

"We are grateful for Cisco's contribution, and we will add support for Cisco's OpenH264 binary modules to Firefox soon," Eich wrote on Wednesday. "These modules will be usable by downstream distributions of Firefox, as well as by any other project. In addition, we will work with Cisco to put the OpenH264 project on a sound footing and to ensure that it is governed well."

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Youve probably heard Android is free and open source. But thats not entirely true.

Although most of the code in the Android Open Source Project is indeed open source, much of the software that interacts with hardware components like GPS chips, cameras and graphics is proprietary. And then theres Google Play, Gmail, Google Maps, and other Google-branded software, all of which is proprietary and requires Googles permission to distribute. In fact, if you were to strip out all the proprietary software, you wouldnt be able to do much with an Android phone.

The team behind Replicant wants to change that. Replicant is an independent version of Android with no proprietary software whatsoever. But the Replicant team doesnt like the term open source. They prefer the term free software, because to them, Replicant is all about freedom.

The term free software was coined in the early 1980s by Richard Stallman, the original developer of the UNIX clone GNU. Free software means software that respects users freedom and community, Stallman wrote for the Free Software Foundation website. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

Although most software that is considered open source also is considered free software according to this definition, Stallman has argued the terms imply different values. For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution, Stallman later wrote. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.

Thats the spirit the Replicant team follows.

Its a matter of not accepting unjust power over your computing and more generally, over your life, says Paul Kocialkowski, a lead developer of Replicant. Anyone who understands and values this point will understand why free software matters.

Replicant was founded in 2010, though its origins date to the release of the HTC Hero/G1, the original Android phone, in 2008. A few people started looking at the Android source code closely to find out what proprietary software was in there, says Kocialkowski. The free and open source software communities quickly realized that there were many proprietary components needed to run Android, so various developers started building alternatives. The original Replicant team Bradley M. Kuhn, Aaron Williamson, Graziano Sorbaioli, and Denis Carikli began gathering these components into a single build of Android free of proprietary software. Carikli, the only founding member still actively involved in the project, was responsible for quite a bit of the alternative code, Kocialkowski says.

Today Replicant supports 10 different devices, but its based on CyanogenMOD, another fork of Android that supports dozens of devices. But CyanogenMOD gets around the restrictions placed on redistributing Googles apps and other proprietary code by backing up the original copies from a users phone before installing the replacement operating system. That way the user can enjoy the advantages a custom version of Android without giving up proprietary software. But Kocialkowski and company are looking to eliminate proprietary software from their devices completely, so Replicant has no such backup features every bit of code included is free.

Perhaps the most noticeable absence from Replicant is Google Play, the app marketplace most Android users depend upon for apps and media. To make up for this, Replicant includes a free and open source app store called F-Droid. Both the source code for the F-Droid application and all the apps available through F-Droid are free and open source. In the past, there have been attempts to create a Replicant Market application, to replace what was at the time known as the Android Market, now renamed Google Play Store, says Kocialkowski. These attempts didnt succeed, but thankfully, F-Droid was being developed at the time by other individuals.

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