It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get hit like a drum by i4i when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit
Read more »What to make of Microsoft's Office patent flop
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Simple Data Security Solutions
For non-techies, the process of creating secure containers, then mounting them and dismounting them may be too much.
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New Decade Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Tarballs
Want to know what's in store for the next few months or years in technology? Here's your chance to see the forecast.
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Custom Transitioning Backgrounds in KDE4
In this series of articles, we've gone over making custom transitioning slide-show backgrounds in different desktop environments. So far, we've gone over GNOME, KDE3, and XFCE. This time, we'll do the same task in KDE4. I think that it is easiest to do this KDE4 compared to all of the other desktop environments.
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Novell stacks Linux and Mono for mainframes
When IBM announced its Linux-only Enterprise Linux Server variants of the System z mainframe two weeks ago, what the company did not say is that software partner Novell had cooked up software bundles specifically for these boxes.
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digiKam 1.0.0 - good Photoshop alternative for Linux
If you are looking for descent photo editing software for Linux, you should try the latest digiKam release.
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How to install songbird 1.4.1 in Ubuntu
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
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How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
Read more »AMD Does RAID On a Chip
Enterprise Storage Forum: "AMD is adding RAID data protection to its server chips, thanks to an OEM deal with Dot Hill."
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Word Injunction Likely Much Ado About Nothing
Although the mainstream media has tried to make it a big deal, a closer look at the recent court ruling ordering Microsoft to stop selling Word, shows it's really not going to have very much impact.
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Red Hat Grows by Taking Windows, UNIX Share
Once again, Linux vendor Red Hat has beat expectations and defied the gravity of a down economy.
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8 of the best KDE distributions
Tech Radar: "If you're an ardent KDE user this means switching to a KDE-centric distribution, for the simple reason that distros based on KDE best understand what KDE users need."
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Pandora gets a hands-on review
The recent reports on Pandora’s case design and controls have been nothing short of glowing. It’s pretty satisfying information for the most part; there is no doubt that what we’re hearing from the team is genuine delight in what they’ve achieved. But the question has been asked – what would some guy off the street think of it?
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Linux Vendors Need To Get Off the Stick to Compete with Windows
If the vendors and projects pushing Linux are really serious about knocking Windows off its OS perch, they can't just wait around for it to happen. They need to grab hold of opportunities to reduce the barriers to Linux adoption.
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Move supports Linux development on multicore processors
As part of the move, it will make its Prism software available on MontaVista Linux 6 and Montavista Linux Carrier Grade Edition products. MontaVista is the first commercial Linux provider to be supported by Prism
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