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Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is hea...
Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving.... More
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. What's going to happen... More
VMware out with results and free deal
It is busy days at VMware as the company said goodbye to its president and chief executive, faced rumblings from investors worried about the company's strategy and then decided to come... More
More in this Special Report
Munich embraces Linux at last
News The City of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
News Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended.
Taking on the Office gorilla, online
News T J Kang, chief executive of online Office start-up ThinkFree, hopes his company can steal a chunk of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar revenue while the software giant drags its feet
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab
Desktop Linux for small business
Group Test Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: a first look
Preview Although it won't ship until spring 2007, Steve Jobs has given a public preview of Apple's next operating system.
Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Buyer's Guide In the world of productivity suites, Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 and StarOffice 8 aren't the dominant players, but they each bring strong qualities to the field, such as affordability and ease of use. Still, do they have what it takes to stand up to Microsoft Office?
Type and travel: Web-based word processors
Buyer's Guide Who needs to buy desktop software when free online word processors let you write all you want, access your files anywhere and invite other people to get on the same page?
Discussions
Mobile Security Expert: Your Camera Phone Got Hacked
Mobile Security Expert: Your Camera Phone Got Hacked Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com Have you ever heard someone say “I’d like to be a fly on the wall in that room.”? As the...
MobileTech
Eee 1000 + iPhone 3G = the ultimate mobile combo
Having left the comforting bosom of ZDNet.co.uk to strike out on my own as a freelance journalist recently, I found myself contemplating a shocking truth – I was going to have to shell out for some...
andrewdonoghue
Think Your Skype Call is Secure? Read This!
There is growing, and credible, speculation that Skype has built in a back door to allow monitoring of SKype calls. Heise Online has a good article about it. So, what we have now is a program...
J.A. Watson
Featured Talkback
How can it be true that doing the work of gathering and concentrating information about a person and placing it in a single database with multiple access routes; makes that information more secure?! I would suggest that most people would make the implicit assumption that that would make it *less* secure.
By: Andrew Meredith
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Police chief criticises ID cards scheme



