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Sites currently sorted by: Popularity (from most hits to fewest hits)The VAR Guy spent most of 2007 blogging about open source start-ups and open source business models. As he looks ahead to 2008, The VAR Guy knows hundreds of open source software providers are seeking to catch on in the corporate market. Here are the top 10 open source providers and platforms that are set to succeed in 2008.
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DetailsIt's official! Recovering from hangovers, people are yawning back to work or just returning from their two-week holiday breaks and before the year 2008 has begun we can safely put it to bed as "The Year of Microsoft Office & OOXML".
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DetailsIt's not often I find myself at a loss for words when I read something, but this is one of those times.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it isn't really necessary for me to add any words to the following news, other than to characterize them with a Latin phrase lawyers use: Res ipse loquitor, which translates as "the thing speaks for itself."
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DetailsVMware, a young Silicon Valley company, is the early leader in a fast-growing market for what is called virtual-machine software. And that puts it on a collision course with Microsoft, the industry’s Goliath.
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DetailsGoogle's mission is to organise the world's information, but what effect is this having on the oldest information technology - books?
Added on: 14-Jan-2008 | hits: 60
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DetailsBy current standards I was already old when I had my own computer for the first time. It was 1997 and I had already been out of school for six years. Now, as an IT professional, I often wonder where I would have been had I been given an early introduction to computers.
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DetailsLinux users and open source fans have few options when it comes to computerized filing of their federal and state income taxes in the United States.
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DetailsWant to protect your SOHO machine or LAN from rootkits and malware, but want something a little more real-time than simply running Chkrootkit or another rootkit detector after the fact? Consider OSSEC-HIDS, an open source host intrusion detection system.
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DetailsThe Archos 704 WiFi multimedia player looks amazing on paper, but the Web browsing isn't quite smooth enough. Still, as a video player it succeeds: the large screen size makes it ideal for planes, trains, and automobiles, though it's too big to be an everyday music player.
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DetailsIn early 2007 the European Computer Manufacturer's Association (Ecma), after a superficial review clothed in secrecy, submitted the Microsoft-authored document format specification, Office Open XML (OOXML), to ISO/IEC JTC1 for approval as an International Standard. This provocative submission occurred only three months after JTC1 published OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a unanimously approved International Standard.
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Details New Linux tools and updates kept IT security hacks at bay in 2007. That said, new problems -- such as security risks in virtual machines -- cropped up last year. Here's my round-up of the big Linux security events, software releases and controversies that cropped up in 2007.
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Details Linspire reached a deal earlier this year with Mirus Innovations to offer a line of OEM computers with Linux preinstalled, under the brand name Koobox. We're all in favor of the concept of desktop PCs with Linux preinstalled, but how does the Koobox measure up in practice? The end result is less than stellar.
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DetailsGrundig Mobile has launched a Linux phone based on a single-core, single-chip architecture, long considered to be the "holy grail" of modern handset technology.
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DetailsThe almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7:
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DetailsAt the risk of starting a flame war, here's what we hope is a balanced overview of each of the four major smartphone operating systems to help you choose the right device with features that best suit your needs. And be sure to check out our recent reviews of the hottest phones in each category below.
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DetailsHere are the key industry issues and trends for the coming year.
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DetailsWith some extra planning, your USB drive can be more than a briefcase; it can be a tool to keep you connected and functional, too.
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DetailsA startup in Penang, Malaysia is readying a Linux-based dual-mode WiFi GSM/GPRS phone expected to ship in Q2. Gupp Technologies's "Phreedom" phone boasts a Treo-style QWERTY keyboard, a 2.5-inch QVGA color screen, and VoWiFi (voice-over-WiFi) capabilities based on the SIP standard.
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DetailsWith the gift of a new computer the help of a friend I recently decided to move from running OpenSuSE to duel booting Windows and Debian. Thus begins my adventure in Debian.
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DetailsEvery generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD...
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DetailsWith the understanding that it's not meant to be a replacement for your PDA, smart phone, or laptop, the N800 is perfect for on-the-go Web browsing with its travel-friendly design and its excellent browser. It's perfect for reading the latest news at the local coffee shop, without having to fire up the ol' laptop or struggling with a cell phone's poky browser.
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DetailsOne of the most common questions I hear new Linux users ask is "What program should I use for virus protection?" Many of them lose faith in me as a source of security information when I reply, "None." But you really don't need to fear malware on your new platform, thanks to the way Linux is built.
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DetailsWith the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Mandriva Free 2007 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
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DetailsUSB modems and wireless cards work on cellular networks, and can get your laptop online almost anywhere. We've got five devices to help keep you connected wherever you may roam.
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DetailsIn our previous Solutions story, "Stream Video to Your Living-Room PC", we covered how to stream movies from services such as Netflix's Watch Now, Vongo, and others to your living-room PC or set-top box for display on your TV. Well, what if you don't have a living-room PC or a set-top box—and don't want one!
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DetailsMany people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch to Linux." We spend 30 days using nothing but Ubuntu Linux to find out if this is truly a viable alternative for the consumer.
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DetailsUser reactions are upbeat, but they insist on more Outlook-like group scheduling and coordinating, as these users comments on the Lightning Suggestions wiki demonstrate:
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Details My mother receives documents from theater organizations in .doc and .xls formats, as do I from local organizations. The local Cambridge and Cambridgeshire governments post documents on their web sites using them. I understand how people can see it as a standard.
Except it is not.
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Details"A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community," Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the OpenBSD open source operating system, declared this week.
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DetailsThe free software community believes that the ability to freely copy content you own between your iPod and a computer is a right, not a privilege. In this article, I’ll discuss how to fully manage the content on your iPod using completely free software.
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DetailsMicrosoft lawyers who believed they'd buried the most embarrassing collection of documents about the company's murky past for good, without any one noticing, were in for a surprise this weekend. The archive has become a mainstay of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing networks.
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DetailsAlong the lines of early efforts to derail SCO's claims that Linux infringes Unix copyrights, a gentleman going by the moniker, "digduality" has decided to fight recent claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents, by launching ShowUsTheCode.com
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DetailsBasically the way the program works is Google provides funding ($4500) to students to work on a given project for an open source group. Google also provides funding ($500) to the open source groups to help mentor the students. Across the numbers that Google has helped out over the last three years that's a whole lot of green.
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DetailsThe world's largest software maker said it plans to lower retail prices for Vista in 70 countries later this year in tandem with the shipment of the first major update to Vista, known as Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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DetailsWhether you're on a tight budget or can spend like a Rockefeller, here's how to create the techie house of your dreams from the ground up.
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DetailsIBM says it will save $250 million by moving 4,000 servers onto 30 mainframes
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DetailsSome memes die hard. Along with the persistent claim that the popular Firefox browser platform is only for Windows-haters, we often see the comment that simply downloading something… even 100 million-plus of something… doesn’t mean people are using it. In fact, Firefox’s Mary Colvig says they believe 40 to 60 million people are actually using it.
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DetailsSlowly, ever so slowly, the Linux desktop has been picking up momentum. It keeps getting better and better, but Microsoft's monopoly has kept many PC users from realizing that there really is a viable alternative to Windows. However, that's about to change.
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DetailsI had the opportunity to sit down for a few minutes with Mozilla Corp.'s Mike Schroepfer to talk about Firefox development, security, updates to JavaScript, and cooperation with Linux vendors and other downstream providers of Firefox.
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DetailsEvery component in a PC, such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries, has some memory space for the software that runs it, called firmware. Miscreants could use this space to hide malicious code that would load the next time the PC boots, John Heasman, research director at NGS Software, said in a presentation at this week's Black Hat DC event here.
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Details Next-generation computers are designed to restrict how you use them even before you buy them. What can the free software community do?
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DetailsSet-top boxes were supposed to revolutionize the way we watched video from our computers. That hasn't quite happened and that's an understatement. Early products were difficult to use; they often dropped connections between devices and displayed poor-quality video. They just weren't worth the trouble.
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DetailsMicrosoft's OOXML document format will win out over its open-source ODF competitor, says a new report from the Burton Group.
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DetailsIn last month’s column, I said “I’m more secure on a Mac than I was on Windows XP.” Some of you asked how Linux fares in that comparison.
To that, I’ll say I’m marginally more secure on Linux than on a Mac, but I prefer a Mac anyway.
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DetailsThis year's Iditarod race is a bit different from past seasons. Oh sure, there are many of the same things going on, like dogs, sleds, snow, and mushing -- but this year there's also GPS enabled tracking.
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DetailsMicrosoft announced on Tuesday that Vista users can upgrade to Vista Service Pack 1 through a Windows Update download.
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DetailsWhile we spend a lot of time talking about Linux vs. Windows and Windows vs. the MacOS, the real battle for the Windows desktop alternative may be the preliminary round between the MacOS and Linux. That battle really kicks off this year with Apple stepping up their effort sharply with the Leopard, and Dell becoming aggressive (with others likely to follow) with SUSE Linux (though this choice may change).
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DetailsYour hard drive could die at any moment. Will you be ready? If you've got a drive image, you'll save not only your data but your apps, drivers, and all the settings that make your machine yours.
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DetailsOpen-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, announced today that it has signed a partnership with 1&1 Internet, the world's largest web hosting company, to provide hosted email and collaboration services based upon Open-Xchange's award-winning Smart CollaborationTM technology.
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