Previous DayHigher-education bodies warned over XML transition
News A report has warned that urgent work is needed to assess the best way for higher-education institutions to upgrade to XML-based file formats
Video: Novell touts Suse Linux for desktop users
Video At the LinuxWorld conference, CEO Ron Hovsepian talks about the increasing support being shown by PC customers for Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
Dell charges UK a premium for Linux PCs
Roundup UK customers get a raw deal as they face paying more than a third extra than the US for Dell computers with an open-source OS
Video: Novell reveals green data-centre plans
Video Chief executive Ron Hovsepian explains how the company aims to make data centres kinder to the environment
Oracle expands hardware support for Linux
News Database company is pushing its Enterprise Linux solution while trying to garner support from the open-source community
Google explains privacy policy on YouTube
News The search giant has posted a video on YouTube explaining its privacy policy, as part of an attempt to be 'transparent' to users and, possibly, the EU
Surface computing?
Talkback I fail to see the practicality of this device. Touch screens have a tendency to become blurred with oil from the fingers after a few hours of use. What if someone drools on it, or spills a cup of...
Debbie developed a split personality! But she's better now.
Blog After neglecting my Linux Home Server project for over 2 weeks I've had some time to work on her. Sometime before then, I managed to screwup the smb.conf file and disabled Samba sharing such that...
Linspire gives Freespire 2.0 a proprietary twist
News Users may now add proprietary software to Linspire's free version of the Linux OS for desktops, following the company's pact with Microsoft
Dell ex-CEO lands $50m payout
News After a stock-options fiasco, the PC maker will pay Kevin Rollins almost 10 times the amount previously expected
HSPA set to dominate mobile broadband
News A report by Juniper Research predicts 70 percent of mobile-broadband subscribers will use the souped-up version of 3G by 2012
Check out our Core Techs
Blog The keen-eyed among you will have spotted a stream of thoughtful blogs on software development in the past few days, posted by Adrian Bridgwater. Take a look at Adrian's profile--you'll find a...
Report praises search engines' privacy efforts
News A Washington advocacy group, funded in part by search companies, has released a report which applauds their recent policy changes
Microsoft releases Vista updates
News The software giant has released updates for its OS and confirmed that pre-beta code has been distributed for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
IBM launches 'Big Green Linux' initiative
News Initiative is designed to persuade IBM customers that Linux deployment can cut power consumption and environmental damage, as well as costs
Missing the point
Talkback Computers here in the developed world never got very popular until companies like Sinclair research and Commodor produced low cost systems that everyone could own. The OLPC project in many ways...
Sun lowers barriers to open-source Java
News Company gives members of its OpenJDK community free access to Java test tools, but the programme isn't available for a rival Apache project
HP sets out next-generation data-centre agenda
News Open source will be important to HP's expansion of its software and services business, the company's executive vice president has said
