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Is Xandros a Linux distro, a marketing machine or a Microsoft stooge? »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS.
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Fox News say Obama's BlackBerry hacked, contents to be published »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months ago in Political News
President Barack Obama achieved notoriety in BlackBerry-loving circles because he loved his handheld so much he insisted he continue to use it in office, despite ...
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Lotus Notes creator says Google Wave is anti-web »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Ray Ozzie, the man behind Lotus Domino/Lotus Notes and now Bill Gates' replacement as Microsoft Chief Software Architect has voiced his take on Google ...
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Can Google Wave do what Bill Gates couldn't? »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Cast your mind back four years. Bill Gates was spruiking sender ID as the solution to spam, proposing extensions to the standard e-mail protocol. Nothing ...
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Yourname @ Linux.com »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Love Linux? Want to be known as thatguy @ linux.com? Now you can.
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Google Wave bye bye to Bing »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Two prominent software houses showed off their latest online wares this last week. Yet, it was not simply products on display but vision and innovation ...
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Google Wave: the next big wave »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Only rarely does a new technology emerge which is so sensible, so simple and so wonderful that you can't imagine how it never existed ...
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Linux market share growing, growing, growing »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Q: What is the true market share for Linux? A: Depends who you ask! You can find desktop penetration of 1%, 2% and 4% - and ...
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Susan Boyle for sale »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
The owner of susanboyle.com is hoping entrepreneurs or fans of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer, will snap up this domain name for a cool ...
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ASUS Linux insult will be Intel and Dell's gain »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
ASUS has effectively abandoned Linux and stated a power user would use Windows instead. This backflip stands against the history of their successful Eee netbook ...
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SSL expert says more to man-in-the-middle than meets the eye »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Hacker groups have reported that man-in-the-middle attacks can be used to strip away the benefits of SSL security when transacting online. However, says the inventor ...
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Dr SSL says intelligent data is the future of computer security »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Dr Taher Elgamal, the driving force behind the SSL protocol explains that intelligent data is the way forward for business to protect confidential company information ...
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Breathe into this, sir - proprietary software fails DUI test »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A remarkable court case in New Jersey saw the source code for the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-C reviewed by an independent software firm. The findings showed ...
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The cranky CIO says the hard drive is inside the computer »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Those of us who work in technology have a jargon all of our very own. We know the difference between CPUs and GPUs, between SSD ...
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When is an upgrade not an upgrade? When MicrOpay v5 wipes all user settings »
Posted by: davidmwilliams 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Prominent Australian and New Zealand payroll software company, Sage MicrOpay, have issued version 5 of their flagship Meridian product. For existing customers the upgrade is ...
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