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GNU/Linux software updates for the enterprise

Software updates are one of the main areas of IT, mainly because of... Read more

14 June, 2011
JavAdaptor: Unrestricted Dynamic <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term> for Java

JavAdaptor: Unrestricted Dynamic Software Updates for Java

Dynamic Software Updates (DSU) are one of the top-most features requested by developers... Read more

28 May, 2011
Flexible Dynamic <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term> of Java Applications: Tool Support and Case Study

Flexible Dynamic Software Updates of Java Applications: Tool Support and Case Study

...can be time consuming and annoying. Thus, the authors aim at dynamic software updates to update programs at runtime. There is a large body of... Read more

6 May, 2011
Dynamic <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term> for Parallel High Performance Applications

Dynamic Software Updates for Parallel High Performance Applications

...expensive computing resources. To address these inefficiencies, this paper describes how dynamic software updates can be used to modify a parallel application on the fly... Read more

26 July, 2010
Using First-Class Contexts to Realize Dynamic <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term>

Using First-Class Contexts to Realize Dynamic Software Updates

Applications that need to be updated but cannot be easily restarted must be updated at run-time. The authors evaluate... Read more

6 September, 2011
Analyzing <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term>: Should You Build a Dynamic Updating Infrastructure

Analyzing Software Updates: Should You Build a Dynamic Updating Infrastructure

The ability to adapt software systems to fix bugs, add/change features without restarting it is becoming important for... Read more

11 December, 2010
Specifying and Verifying the Correctness of Dynamic <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term>

Specifying and Verifying the Correctness of Dynamic Software Updates

Recently, there has been much interest in Dynamic Software Updating (DSU) systems, which allow running programs to be... Read more

2 December, 2010
A Calculus of Consistent Component-Based <endeca_term>Software Updates</endeca_term>

A Calculus of Consistent Component-Based Software Updates

Dynamic update is a general, software-based technique: there is no need for redundant hardware or special-purpose... Read more

30 November, 2010

VMware puts mobile at heart of post-PC world

VMware has detailed two projects and brought out a series of software updates to prepare for the 'post-PC world', where the focus is... Read more

31 August, 2011 by Jack Clark
On Minimizing Network Wide Node Update Time

On Minimizing Network Wide Node Update Time

...networks, nodes often need to be rebooted or brought off line for software updates, configuration updates or hardware maintenance. ISPs often run the same protocols... Read more

18 October, 2010
Broadcast Secrecy Via Key-Chain-Based Encryption in Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Broadcast Secrecy Via Key-Chain-Based Encryption in Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Broadcast is used in wireless sensor networks for operations such as software updates, network queries, and command dissemination. Applications such as battlefield control and... Read more

27 August, 2010
Incentivizing Peer-Assisted Services: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach

Incentivizing Peer-Assisted Services: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach

...generation of content delivery networks for live streaming, video on demand, and software updates takes advantage of a peer-to-peer architecture to reduce their... Read more

18 June, 2010

Android 5.0 Jelly Bean to arrive before December

...choose which services to include. It would also allow Google to deliver software updates to customers' handsets much faster than waiting for operator testing and... Read more

16 May, 2012

BlackBerry phones finally become Wi-Fi hotspots

...makes increased use of near-field communication (NFC) functionality. "The range of software updates announced today build upon the strengths of [BlackBerry 7] to further... Read more

10 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Motorola ICS update to skip older handsets

...a separate blog post, the company explained the decision to not bring software updates to its older handsets. "You may be wondering why all devices... Read more

21 May, 2012

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