IBM announced that is has acquired Ounce Labs, which makes software to scan source code for security and compliance vulnerabilities.

New VMware management makes irrational decisions, has Microsoft qualifications

If you're thinking of upgrading from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7, why not give Linux a try? Matt Hartley ponders the pros and cons of both platforms, the relative pain of making a change, and the economic incentives for continuing to favor a buggy, insecure platform.

The recent problem with prelink in Fedora Rawhide has led some to wonder about what advantages pre-linking actually brings—and whether those advantages outweigh the pain it can cause. Pre-linking can reduce application start up time—and save some memory as well—but there are some downsides; not least the possibility of an unbootable system as some Rawhide users encountered.

As it strives to replace email, Google has open sourced two chunks of its new-age communications platform, Google Wave. Unveiled to a standing coder ovation at the Google I/O developer conference in late May, Google Wave is a (still-gestating) web platform that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing, exhibiting a particular talent for near real-time interaction.

For the most part, your ISP provides a service and you are free to use that service as you wish... Imagine, though, (and imagine it quickly before it becomes a reality) if your ISP blocked Hulu because it duplicated the functionality of (competed with) their TV service for which they had been trying to get you to sign up.

I prefer to access my email via Mutt and SSH (I know, a little old-school ...): I can do this via ConnectBot, but I wanted something a bit more direct. Happily, Lauren Weinstein has written an adapted version of ConnectBot to simplify this.

Install isolated side-by-side MySQL instances right the first time with this time-saving virtual manager.