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Debian founder Ian Murdock, was most recently a member of Docker's technical staff.

Will you be watching TV coverage as the year changes on your Apple TV? If you do you won’t be alone as there’s strong evidence to suggest the set top box was a big gift in the company cracker this year.

The BBC—that mainstay of British broadcasting, education, journalism, and whatever Top Gear was—is ruing the day someone dropped a cup of tea into the server. Or perhaps it was a distributed-denial-of-service attack—we don’t know and Aunty Beeb isn’t saying (well, apart from BBC journalists quoting BBC “sources,” that is).

These iPhone 7 rumors are unquenchable, despite Apple’s traditional secrecy. As well as whispers about an earlier release date, we hear that the new shiny will be waterproof and will lose the oh-so-ugly antenna stripes.

Generally it is only technology vendors that come out with some proclamation of a solution that is going to be built. The technology industry conference circuit would collapse were it not for these so-called vaporware announcements. What is unusual, however, is to see a technology vendor partnering with a business in the "real world" to announce their joint intention to build a technology solution.

The OS that took over the world

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Let's just get this out of the way: this isn't the year of Linux on the desktop. That year will probably never arrive. But Linux has gotten just about everywhere else, and the Linux community can take a bow for making that happen. Android, based on the Linux kernel, is so prevalent on mobile devices that it makes the longstanding desktop quest seem irrelevant.

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We are about to cross a chasm in a few days, both in a virtual sense and on the calendar. We’ll switch over to 2016, but we’ll also see some major advancements in technology next year -- some of which might debut as early as Q1 or even right away in January. Here are the innovations I’m expecting will happen in 2016.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere brashly predicted that the number of U.S. businesses switching to the carrier will grow even faster in 2016, doubling the number of small- and mid-sized businesses already in T-Mobile's fold.

A mechanic working at an American Audi dealership is stumped by a problem with a car.

This environmental testing company has strict data-retention requirements -- and they go beyond the data, reports a pilot fish on the scene.