The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web protocols in the real world. OSNews is already there via the Mobits mobile engine.
Recent PC sales numbers indicate a sluggish marketplace, though laptops are doing slightly better than desktops, and upgrades to flat panel monitors continue unhindered. Of the major computer manufacturers, though, Apple's sales have been extermely high, accorsing the Merrill Lynch analysts.
Richard Seibt, formerly CEO of Suse Linux before its acquisition by Novell in 2003, has left Novell. This follows the recent resignations of other top executives Chris Stone, Alan Nugent, and Deb Bergavin. The major portion of Novell’s management came from Novell’s acquisitions of Cambridge Technology Partners, Ximian and Silverstream.
Security used to be as simple as a solid lock on a solid door, a safe in the back room and perhaps even a retired police officer out front (if you were really serious). But the modern business looks at security, and threats to security in a whole different light. Security of information, systems and networks are now just as important as, and often integrated with, shop-front security. read more
The Mac mini is an ideal low-cost, high-performance PowerPC development platform for numerous applications. Learn how to install and configure Linux on the mini. Future articles will add the software required to make it into a stand-alone multimedia appliance.
Hollywood (and RIAA) seem to be behind the times when it comes to technology and potential new business opportunities. For years now PocketPCs are able to decode mpeg, divx and wmv videos full speed and yet we can't buy movies in SD/CF format to watch while we waiting on that bus stop.
The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat held a private meeting in New York, CNET News.com has learned, an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming.
Updated - Microsoft has officially released the new 64 bit version of windows. This has been available in Beta for well over a year to allow software and hardware manufacturers to be ready for the release.
Bill Gates doesn't think his company has been slow to crack the cell phone market. He just thinks the little devices have yet to catch up to the power of his company's software. Windows Mobile 5 was announced today, image gallery, webcast and Bluetooth tools PR. Dell and HP announced upgrades for their PDA models to the latest version of the Windows Mobile OS.
When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touts his company's next Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, he can barely contain his enthusiasm, adding "it will be super to get that out in the hands of our customers." The big question is whether customers will share Gates' enthusiasm more than a year from now.
This is a new video available on the SkyOS homepage, showing off the new indexing service. This service (which continuously runs in the background) will examine all new or updated files on a SkyFS volume. For each file, the plugin-based Index Feeder will try to extract as much information as possible from the file. This information will then be attached to the file in the form of attributes, which makes it possible to quickly search for it by using the SkyFS Index and Live Queries. It should be noted that what is seen in the video is only the back-end controls for the indexing service; for the final release of SkyOS, the controls will be implemented system-wide within the SkyOS GUI.
MSMobiles.com posted some exlcusive information over the upcoming announcement of Windows Mobile 5. Also, I posted a review of the Axim X5-Advanced PDA at our friends at TuxTops.com, a PDA that can be found in very good prices lately on the web and can be a good first-PDA purchase.
Apple's greatest hit was not the Macintosh, iMac or iPod, it was the Apple II. The machine helped bankroll Apple's big projects (LISA, Macintosh, Newton) well into the nineties. Read about Apple's history before the Macintosh at the Low End Mac.
FreeBSD 5.4 has been released. Many improvements in functionality and stability have been made since the FreeBSD 5.3 release. Most users should find 5.4 stable enough to migrate off the aging 4.X branch. New features include:
The X-Fi is poised to bring huge tracts of audio processing horsepower to the PC, delivering new levels of audio effects in games, and enabling very versatile digital audio workstations.
