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I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products like Linspire are simply wrongheaded. Speaking of wrongheaded, last week, Research In Motion may have actual...
Adobe launched its Creative Suite 3 line of products Tuesday. The six new integrated Web design and content creation software packages are the first to leverage tools and technologies the company gained with its $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. With its six all-news suites and 13 stan...
A coalition of major technology users and vendors organized by the SANS Institute announced Monday what it called a first-of-its-kind testing and certification program for software programmers. The new examinations are designed to enable reliable measurements of technical proficiency and expertise i...
Adobe released its cross-operating run-time system for Web developers on Monday. The development system, available from Adobe Labs, is currently in the first public alpha version. Code-named "Apollo," the technology enables Web developers to create and deploy rich Internet applications on the deskto...
Following a beta-test process involving half a million photographers, Adobe Systems on Monday released Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. Aimed primarily at professional photographers, Photoshop Lightroom is a software tool that allows users to import, manage and present large volumes of digital photographs.
There is a secret battle raging within your enterprise and in your home: control of electronic data. It's being waged by the world's largest IT vendors and global entertainment giants. The outcome of this battle will have an impact on you, your company and your use of digital content and information...
In the coming weeks, the $100 laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation will go into wide-scale production. From there, the laptops will be sent by the thousands to emerging economies in Africa, South Asia and South America. Meanwhile, in the United States, PC makers, private foundatio...
Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets. Opera Mobile, the company's standards-compliant Web browser for advanced mobile phones, uses Opera's small screen rendering technology to reformat Web pages, and it allows users t...
Use of the Internet Explorer browser continues to fall as rivals such as Firefox gain converts, but the release of IE7 may help Microsoft wrest back some of its lost market share, according to a new report. The share of total browser use attributed to Internet Explorer fell in October to 81.3 percen...
The status of Latin and COBOL are quite similar. Neither is really dead, both are deeply ingrained, intertwined and embedded in our contemporary world. The former in many of our written and spoken languages, and the latter is the underpinning of much of the world's existing data systems. If you igno...
Microsoft is making greater portions of its Sender ID framework, a security standard designed to ensure that e-mails come from legitimate sources, available under its Open Specification Promise program. At one time, the standard -- which is used alone or in combination with others by most of the ma...
Microsoft on Monday announced a new beta version of Windows Live OneCare. Version 1.5 of the security software is compatible with Vista and available as a free download. OneCare is the company's all-in-one, automatic and self-updating PC care service designed to help consumers protect and maintain t...
Internet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online. Always looking to extend its forte -- ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet --...
AOL is embracing third-party developers who would like to extend its AIM Phoneline service or build new products on the platform. The Dulles, Va.-based ISP plans to introduce new APIs to facilitate the creation of higher-end offerings for the Voice over IP service of its AIM instant messaging produc...
Following Microsoft's Friday release of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, the software giant on Tuesday announced plans to make the software available for broad customer and partner testing. Microsoft will reopen the Customer Preview Program, its pre-release testing program, to new enrollments thi...