Monthly Archives: January 2016

You can now unlock the bootloader on the Verizon Motorola Moto X (2014)

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Verizon Motorola Moto X (2014) owners are in for a surprise. Motorola has received the “green light” to start unlocking bootloaders for the Verizon-branded phone. The news was shared by a forum manager on Motorola’s official product and support forum. Unlocking the bootloader on Motorola devices is typically an easy process thanks to the company’s website, but the service has only been available for those who purchased unlocked phones.

Hey, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that we did get the green light to unlock the bootloader on Verizon 2014 Moto X (2nd Gen) devices. Unfortunately, we can’t do this for devices on other carriers.

We’re not sure why the bootloader on the Verizon Motorola Moto X (2014) couldn’t be unlocked, but we’re hoping that other carrier-branded versions of the phone will get the same treatment. Unlocking the bootloader on a phone give you the ability to flash custom ROMs, but because doing so voids the phone’s warranty, we typically recommend unlocking a bootloader only if you’re an advanced user. If that’s you, head on over to Motorola’s site to get things started.

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Is Amazon The Next Big Silicon Vendor Or The Next Broadband Provider?

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When Amazon.com started selling books online, bookstores were worried but not many others really seemed to to care. Music and video followed, and suddenly people buy everything from Amazon. Businesses even host their IT on Amazon’s servers while entire industries have blossomed around the vendor. Previously Amazon quietly entered the CPU business through their acquisition of Annapurna Labs, and last week announced new products that bring it closer to home networking and storage. Naturally you’d think that this might be bad news for Broadcom or Intel, but what if the real threat is to Time Warner Cable, Comcast and a host of other companies in the internet service provider business? Google is already encroaching on both the networking business with their OnHub product as well as the broadband delivery with Google Fiber. The announcement from Annapurna could tip the hand on Amazon’s future direction.

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10 Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Killing It In The Cloud

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Microsoft might have set an ambitious goal of pushing Windows 10 to 1 billion devices. But one OS that is doing wonders in the cloud, desktop, mobile, and IoT segment is Ubuntu. This Debian-based open source OS has been on a roll ever since IaaS has become mainstream to run server workloads in the cloud. From AWS to OpenStack, Ubuntu is most preferred OS by system administrators and DevOps professionals.

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