This could breed a whole new genre of applications: <<A camera-equipped cellphone can be used to control a computer as if it was a three-dimensional mouse,...
<<Danish security firm Secunia has reported that bugs in open-source code, such as Red Hat Linux and the Firefox browser, were way above those in Microsoft's...
A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to play with an iPhone (sadly not for sale in Andorra where I live) connected to the Internet. As a lot of you...
... I know I enjoy my IPhone's amazing set of useful features with attention to the right details of user interface design and navigation. I'm awaiting the...
Unfortunately Apple is not exactly well known for its open attitude to intellectual property or platform accessibility. Words like "dog" and "manger" spring...
<<Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation web technology, the...
Call for Participation in the 2008 Web Services Challenge in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce, and e- Services...
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<<Software that makes software better Mar 6th 2008 From /The Economist/ print edition Computing: Programmers are using a variety of software tools to help them...
Slackware CD distribution of Linux was first Linux experience around 1996/1997. Whatever, i got at that time was good. Since then, i have not looked for them...
Yup, me too, bought a 6 CD set full of mirrors of FTP sites, from a bookstore. Slackware 2 or something? Or maybe there wasn't even versions back then....
... I have no recent experience with it, so I don't know that any opinions I have are valuable. I used slackware as the first distro that I started using...
<<Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML is a "sad" day for ISO and the computing public. "I think it de-values the...
<<The vote is in and it appears that Microsoft has won its bid to have OOXML declared an ISO standard according to voting results obtained April 1. Does this...
<<Google on Tuesday launched its App Engine, which allows developers to run their Web applications on the search giant's computing cloud. The news has multiple...
<<Apple's OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing...
<<Jeff Bezos made a fortune building Amazon.com (AMZN) into one of the top players in online retailing. Now he's looking for new ways to cash in on the...
<<Two recent articles indicate there could be some changes when it comes to integrating mobile devices in the enterprise. Let's start with the Microsoft...
<<The shift to multi-core processing across the computing industry has created a fundamental shift in a long-standing truism---that software achieved...
<<The biggest story in wireless during the past year undoubtedly was the iPhone. As the first anniversary approaches — it is in late June — there's a...
<<Enterprise IT needs to take a practical approach to social networking technologies being marketed to business as Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0, according to Mike...
/<<Abstract: Forrester Research predicts that mashups will be a $682 million industry in the next 5 years [REF-1]. But can you define mashups? Can you describe...
<<Have you been following recent posts to this blog about the "$650 Billion Drag on the Economy" caused by what I call network overload? If so, you may be...
<<Regardless of the apparent reluctance on the part of midmarket CIOs to adopt the Windows Vista operating system, experts agree waiting much longer probably...
<<Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate...
<<And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd... Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software...
Call For Participation in CEC'08 and EEE'08 22-24 July, 2008, Washington, DC, USA http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/index.html The 10th IEEE Conference on...
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CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering Mission of IJITWE: The main objective of the International Journal of...
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<<Nokia plans to buy out its fellow shareholders in Symbian, the UK-based handset software firm, and throw the mobile phone operating system open for...