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Top of the Charts: Five Open Source File Sharing Apps TechWorld: "The answer to that question may be obvious to some, but the explosion in paid-for, online digital content services in recent years hasn't dented the download rates of free file sharing applications..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Top 10: OOXML, MIDs, Google's moves, Eclipse's crossroads Microsoft's OOXML made the cut as an international standard this week, but it will still take time for the file format to be widely implemented. Meanwhile, expect to see mobile Internet devices using Intel's Centrino Atom chip hit the market, even though not many were Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life George Church is dyslexic, narcoleptic, and a vegan. He is married with one daughter, weighs about 210 pounds, and has worn a pioneer-style bushy beard for decades. He has elevated levels of creatine kinase in his blood, the consequence of a heart attack. He enjoys waterskiing, photography, r Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life George Church is dyslexic, narcoleptic, and a vegan. He is married with one daughter, weighs about 210 pounds, and has worn a pioneer-style bushy beard for decades. He has elevated levels of creatine kinase in his blood, the consequence of a heart attack. He enjoys waterskiing, photography, r Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Top 10: Google and Oracle boldly go to new markets Google entered the mobile phone market this week when T-Mobile rolled out the first handset running the search engine's Android mobile operating system. Oracle also ventured into new territory by announcing that it will sell a hardware product -- a database server the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Tech's all-time top 25 flops Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Moto split, Mac hack, Microsoft secrets Conferences this week put the spotlight on security news with a MacBook Air being hacked in two minutes during a competition and research finding that Microsoft patches holes faster than Apple. Otherwise, H-1B visas were back in the news, word seeped out that Microsof Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country anxiously watching with sharp memories of Hurricane Katrina, which hit that Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft grows hostile, Yahoo says nyah nyah We've been waiting all week for the other shoe on Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt to drop on Yahoo, which isn't waiting for that to happen and has forged an advertising agreement with Google as a way to hedge against the ongoing acquisition dispute. In other ne Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft mania, AT&T goes 3G, IT awards It felt like all Microsoft, all the time this week. CEO Steve Ballmer was attacked by an egg-throwing Hungarian, the company said it will support ODF and PDF in Office next year, and it started the week by pitching another deal to Yahoo that involves buying assets and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mozilla nabs top UI developers from Humanized Mozilla has hired three of the five top employees at Humanized, a small company known for its innovative work to provide more intuitive user interfaces, but will not reveal their identities.Mozilla confirmed the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The week's Top 10 tech stories Verizon reached a deal to buy Alltel for $28.1 billion, which would make the combined company the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. over AT&T. While that was, arguably, the week's biggest news, it couldn't match the jaw-dropping word that Broadcom co-founder Henry Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Top 10: Military goods for sale and miscreants aplenty Psssst ... Hey, you over there! Yeah, you. Wanna buy some F-14 components? According to the Government Accountability Office, purloined military equipment can be found online at eBay or Craigslist. Seems like it was a week for wild-and-woolly Internet-related news. SA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10 social networking annoyances The same question people used to ask about PCs can be asked of social networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more complex, before they came around? The answer is yes. For some folks, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Adventures with Open Source Apps on Linux--Part 1 Hardware 2.0: "With that in mind I've decided to put together a few posts that look at open source apps on Linux..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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LinuxWorld: Showcasing the OS The 10th annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo and its partner Next Generation Data Center Conference kick off today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the open source operating system will be the center of attention for enterprise users, vendors and IT enthu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Bill Gates retires, Symbian goes open source Microsoft, usually a source of software patch updates and claims about Vista adoption rates, produced a bit of sentimental news this week as Bill Gates stepped away from his daily corporate duties on Friday. Gates, who founded Microsoft at age 19, will now devote his Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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10 quick fixes for the worst security nightmares In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the Web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. They can make a healthy living just by exploiting known security holes that many users haven't bothered to p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |