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- Attention desktop Linux users - Are you a typical user?
- OpenSUSE.org has published the results of a three-month survey of over 27,000 participants. The results are interesting:A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties whos computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Professionally speaking, an openSUSE Linux desktop user tends to be...
- Tags: Linux, In the news
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- So, you want some Feisty Fawn with that Dell?
- So, its official. Dell is to offer Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" on a select range of Dell PCs. Lets face it, Ubuntu was the obvious choiceAll the details are over on the Direct2Dell blog. Theres not a lot of substance to the announcement:The Linux distro of choice...
- Tags: Linux, Industry, In the news, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance
- Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and...
- Tags: In the news, Industry, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- What Dell customers want - Linux, no craplets, more RAM, no offshored tech support
- Last week Dell launched a new site called Dell Ideastorm. The idea behind Ideastorm is to leverage the "Web 2.0" wave to get feedback from web users on what they want to see from Dell. Some of the ideas are pretty obvious and Dell could have found out...
- Tags: Industry, Marketing, In the news, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Ballmer: Linux "Infringes our intellectual property"
- Earlier this month we were all trying to figure out the reasoning behind the Microsoft/Novell deal. After all, the two companies have hardly been best buddies in the past.Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer, in a Q&A session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server PASS conference...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, intellectual property
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
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- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Pantech flip phone, Sony Bravia LCD TV, Acer Aspire laptop, and Canon PowerShot ultracompact. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-11
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Linux Laptop, Laptop Computer, Linux, OpenOffice, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will you forget about Android?
- Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...
- Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Unipro UGENE (exe)
- Unipro UGENE integrates most of the important molecular biology tools within a single graphical environment. UGENE runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS platforms. Unipro UGENE view and analysis of annotated DNA or protein sequences, huge files support, native support of zipped documents, and chromatograms visualization. Number of DNA plots supported...
- Tags: Algorithm, DNA, Biology, UniPro, Unipro UGENE, Biotechnology, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Kasha's Rap Toolbar (exe)
- An Internet browser toolbar for rap lovers. This takes your standard toolbar functions and gives them a rap music edge. Always be 1 click away from your favorite genre. This toolbar incorporates functions such as rss feeds, search box, mail checker, weather check and a radio preprogramed with stations such...
- Tags: Toolbar, Vivid Imagery, Kasha
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?If it's a netbook......then it's suicide at an $800 price point. Only fanboys and fashionistas will buy it.Apple doesn't make a notebookThey make laptops, remember?LOLI actually think that PC doesn't stand for Personal Computer, it stands for Price Conscious.When you decide...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Notebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...
- Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?
- Another high-profile departure from Sun, this time MySQL's David Axmark is taking wing -- citing a dislike for working in a large organization: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The five products Apple must make
- The five products Apple must makeDon't quit your day jobGame console: No. The market isn't big enough.Tablet: No. the market isn't big enough. Unless Apple can make a notebook computer that can also be a tablet. Without a price increase.iPhone Nano: No. The touch screen interface requires a product with...
- Tags: Tablets, Operating systems, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
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