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Raspberry Pi has now sold 30 million tiny single-board computers

Raspberry Pi sales grow from 700,000 units in 2012 to 30 million units this year.

Linux Focus: The Borg takes on NASA multi-processing

Cranfield University computer centre has developed a Linux-based system of networked Pentium II PCs to replace its decommissioned Cray mainframe.

NASA: Keep feet on the ground for software success

Information Builders Summit: The key for successful business intelligence projects is to consult with the users, according to the US space agency

MySQL grows up with certification

CeBIT: MySQL AB is introducing a certification programme for experts, as it drives toward the enterprise

Tumbleweed offers ERP solutions to NASA

Top 10 SOA posts for 2009

SOA's 'death,' SOA case studies, cloud, and productivity measurements topped 2009 postings.

Taking some heat ... and turning it into electricity

Harnessing heat for useful purposes isn't really anything new. Um, that's kind of what steam does and has been doing for more than 100 years.

Microsoft helps fuel Sourceforge growth

Sourceforge has racked up 100,000 projects, thanks in part to the visibility of projects posted by 'leading organisations such as Microsoft'

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto

Today's Microsoft code name: Tolesto. Tolesto is one of the three orbiting moons of Saturn. It's also the core subset of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.

PDAs in space

As I already wrote, the astronauts who live on the International Space Station don't have the latest or the most powerful computers to work with. But they also are using personal digital assistants, not just for fun, but for real applications. With their PDAs, they can control what's on board or use them as a speech processing platform. One of the astronauts has even designed an application to compute the time that would be left before having to abandon the ISS in the event of depressurisation.