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Will Apple Open the iPhone
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William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he'd love it even more if he could write software for it.
He's not alone. Hundreds of programmers showed up at an iPhone event organized by Hurley, an executive at software maker BMC (BMC), even though Appl...
Universal Music Takes on iTunes - Relationships in the entertainment world can be famously fraught. And few are more so these days than the one between Steve Jobs and Universal Music chief Doug Morris. You may recall that Morris recently refused to re-up a multi-year contract to put...
Skype and MySpace Link Up - It's such a natural that some blogs had predicted in recent weeks it should happen: eBay's Skype and News Corp.'s MySpace are going to share their DNA, as it were. MySpace, the popular social network, is integrating Skype's Internet voice services wi...
How To Kill The Patent Threat Against Linux - One of the biggest clubs held over the head of Linux and Open Source as of late has been the threat of patent litigation. Microsoft has been at the forefront of this effort, boldly and defiantly claiming that Linux and Open Source infringes on appro...
Review-Mandriva Linux PowerPack 2008.0 - Earlier this week, Mandriva released Mandriva Linux 2008.0, the latest version of their flagship Linux distribution. Mandriva was so kind as to provide me with a copy of Mandriva Linux 2008.0 PowerPack, the commercial version. Back when it was named ...
Google Commands 60 percent of Global Searches - Google captured roughly 60 percent of the searches conducted worldwide in August, blowing away the field with 37.1 billion of 61 billion queries, according to new statistics from comScore. Five billion of Google's August searches came from the Mounta...
Zend Advances PHP
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Zend Technologies is looking to extend the capabilities of the PHP Web development language as a key platform for business-critical Web applications.
At its third annual ZendCon PHP conference Oct. 8-11 in Burlingame, Calif., Zend made a serie...
Hacking openSUSE 10.3 - Novell's openSUSE 10.3 is an exciting desktop operating environment that includes or supports nearly every program you need for work and play. But there are those last few programs and issues that make openSUSE just short of perfect. Web browser plug...
Open Source Relational Databases - How many open source relational databases can you name? My friend Gabrielle recently sent me the links to two of them. However, if you’re like most technical people, you probably don’t know any — just as I didn’t until recently. I can already imagine...
Skype for Linux 1.4 out of beta
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Skype 1.4 for Linux after five months of testing. Now that it's officially out of beta -- along with a slew of bug fixes and new features -- developers are calling it a recommended release.
Skype for Linux is available for eight distributions, inc...
Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner - The Linux-based eX2 in-flight entertainment system (IFE) from Panasonic Avionics was the big winner at this year's Avion Awards, sponsored by an IFE trade group. The Best Overall IFE awards went to Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airw...
Top 40 Linux blogs
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Doc Searls makes some good points about blog ranking. It's so bogus, but it's so much fun people can't stop doing it.
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Open source vs. Windows: security debate rages
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It's a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What's more secure -- "open source" code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary "closed source" operating systems and applications, Microsoft's in particular?
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What's Next for Google
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Google ponders its next steps in an e-commerce environment shaped by mobile, social networking and, yes, search.
The typical American business executive likes incremental changes, like, perhaps, an 18 percent speed increase. Or maybe a little bit...
OpenOffice Sports All-Around Improvements
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Going head to head with Microsoft 2007, the latest version of the free-for-all OpenOffice.org touts across-the-board improvements in the software's word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation applications.
However, the brightest aspect...
