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Bezipped 1 (Mac)

Bezipped is a file compression and archive utility built on top of the bzip2 command line tool that comes with Mac OS X. In general, Bezipped creates smaller archives than those generated by Finders Compress functionality. Couple that with the fact that Bezipped also allows you to create Windows safe...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Archive, Compression, Fruit Stand Software, Bezipped, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-05-16

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mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Mr. Bezos, Tear Down This Wall

Amazon is not-so-quietly building a wall between itself, its competitors, and open e-book formats. It's time to show them that those of us who seek e-book readers without boundaries will not stand for their market monopolization and Soviet-style platform containment. So while I...

Tags: Device, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-04

We got your microtransactions right here

Ever since the Web was spun, nearly 15 years ago now, one story has come around, and around, and around like a bad penny. Microtransactions. A penny here, a penny there. Buy this story, it's super-cheap. And of course there are always tales of...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Open source business model reaching tipping point

Open source business model reaching tipping pointyeah, but ....Thats all I keep reading about. These tools that add something, and extend Databases, W2 and other likewise services.BUT the real questions is, WHERE ARE the REAL services like Accounting Software (G/L, A/R, A/P, I/V, PO, HR-PR, FA ..etc) that are in...

Tags: Open Source Product, open source, Open Source Business Model, license fee

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Just in time for Macworld: A rouge application dubbed MacSweeper

Just in time for Macworld: A rouge application dubbed MacSweeperHehe, suddenly marketshare is a factor?![i]These bogus programs aren't anything new, but the fact that one has surfaced on the Mac indicates that Apple's market share has been on a tear.[/i]Malware authors don't care about marketshare, they target the worst OS...

Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Drive-By Installs, Apple Macintosh, MacSweeper, malware, JIT, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO

The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 "fine" (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements.  The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper PDF where it recommends a ban on OS Operating System bundling for...

Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Free Trade, Productivity, Software, Finance, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Congress and the Feds should clean up their own act

Every once in a while you'll get a political hearing on capitol hill where elected Government officials will grand stand and politicize issues that should have nothing to do with politics.  Sandy Berger stole secret documents from the National Archives by shoving them in to his socks so will Congressman...

Tags: Desktop, Infrastructure, Security, Technology policy

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Leopard vs. Vista: Take two

Leopard vs. Vista: Take twoGood for you...Most of us realized that you just drew some stupid flames from some equally stupid, and unfortunately scary, individuals out there.If you are that passionate about these so-called "OS's", you geeks need to get a life.To be honest, I don't really knowI know ZFS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Why Microsoft is under attack from all sides

Why Microsoft is under attack from all sidesM$ IP should be confiscated!Since M$ 'IP' is the fruit of the illegal behaviour, it should be confiscated the same way dirty monies are!Why Microsoft is under attack from all sidesMicrosoft is constantly under attack for being successful. Many years ago Bill...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Lars, IP, attack

Discussion threads 2007-04-09

The EC, Interoperability, and GPL Java

The EC, Interoperability, and GPL JavaDefine correct[i]MS are too cynical an organisation to interop properly, if they weren't they's have handed over teh correct documentation in the first place without all this foot dragging.[/i]Say I told you to hand over documentation to a piece of software you wrote, and indicated...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Tantalus, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

FAQ: Will BlackBerrys be shut down?

FAQ: Will BlackBerrys be shut down?If they are in the wrong....shut it ALL down... periodThis has become a circus. Just get on with it. Either close RIM down or don't. If RIM is in the wrong, their service should be halted.... period. The idea that government...

Tags: patent, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, government

Discussion threads 2006-02-02

Is Massachusetts' OpenDocument decision on the rocks?

Is Massachusetts' OpenDocument decision on the rocks?I can see it nowThe Legislature passes a Bill authorizing Microsoft to dictate file formats for the Administrative Branch.Hmmm -- well, Don insists it could happen.I'm still waiting for someone to suggest revised wording for the ETRM that would include Microsoft's file formats. ...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., agency, characterization, MSFT

Discussion threads 2005-10-24

Microsoft partners with cell phone foe Symbian

Microsoft partners with cell phone foe SymbianI recently partnered with Microsoft too"Symbian, based in London, said it will develop software that lets Symbian phones work with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 e-mail, calendar, contacts and other personal-information tools, then make it available to Symbian licensees."I wrote a program to let my...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Business structures, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, E-mail servers, partnership, Symbian Inc., Microsoft Corp., software, cell phone

Discussion threads 2005-03-22

Gates talks business

Gates talks businessWhy Not Ask Him Some REAL Questions?Like addressing how IE7 is going to stack up against Firefox and Netscape, like addressing the issue of what is going to happen when all those XP machines that can't update their security anymore are attacked and used against other machines that...

Tags: Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux?

Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux?I'll correct you about Gentoo...Gentoo (More acurately, the Portage tool they create) doesn't facilitate the voilation of GPL and non-GPL source code. The Portage tool Portaris for OpenSolaris simplifies and automates the downloading and compiling of preexisting open-source software packages...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Well Let, Portage, GPLed, Gentoo, software, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-01-27

IBM offers 500 patents for open-source use

IBM offers 500 patents for open-source useOSS has taken over this planet, earthlings, REJOICE!!!Every MS junkie, bow to your new overlords. From hippies, commies to "we rule this place now ;)" at the speed of light.And no matter what IBM's motive (use OSS developers, make money, wadda, wadda..) this is...

Tags: patent, OSS, IBM Corp., open source, Microsoft Corp., software, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-01-11

Building On MIDCOM: Read It Here First

Last month at the Fall VON 2004 show in then-Bosox-obsessed Boston, VoIP equipment vendor Veraz Networks announced it would head up an initiative foran open standards Border Gateway Controller. But you already knew that. Read on, though, because I am going to break some news here.Today, I had the pleasure...

Tags: Veraz Networks, MIDCOM

Blog posts 2004-11-04

Linux gets trial 'NX' security support

Linux gets trial 'NX' security supportLinux gets trial 'NX' security supportWait!! The Linsux posters on these talkbacks said that Linsux wans't vulnerable to viruses and worms, yet this article is telling me that they need to take security measures so that they won't be. ROFLMAO!!! I guess...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Construction, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Loverock, security, window

Discussion threads 2004-06-04

Wallon virus wrecks Windows Media Player

Wallon virus wrecks Windows Media PlayerIs there anythingin the ms-platform that is not infested by worms and viruses? ``MS-windows: come for the bugs stay for the worms. The eXPerience''-mALL s/w has defects; the ms s/w seems to consist of defects ONLY.InterestingDidn't MS tell the EU that WMP couldn't be removed...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Digital music, Viruses and worms, Digital media, SECURITY, WMP, virus, Microsoft Corp., media player, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media

Discussion threads 2004-05-12