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World Religions Quick Study Guide from MobileReference - FREE Buddhism chapter in the trial

Downloads Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC) No matter which device you use (Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Blackberry, or Desktop), you will NOT lose any functionality. Alternative: You can download the Free MobiPocket...

[May 16, 2006, 8:00]

Art History Guide from MobileReference. FREE Prehistoric Art chapter in the trial version.

Downloads Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC) No matter which device you use (Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Blackberry, or Desktop), you will NOT lose any functionality. Alternative: You can download the Free MobiPocket...

[April 14, 2006, 8:00]

Mozilla could form base of a Google browser

News Governor believes that there is plenty of room for innovation in the browser market, in particular as Microsoft has said that it will stop development of standalone versions of IE, and will instead evolve the browser as part of future updates to...

[September 21, 2004, 18:15]

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog The standard Ubuntu 6.06 CD is very, very clever: it's a live CD that boots into a fully working version of the OS, and if you like what you see you can then click on an icon to have it install itself on your PC.

[June 2, 2006, 18:00]

Citrix XenDesktop 4 adds features, changes licence

News With those same 1,000 lab computers and only doing OS Streaming, so only ever (for now anyway) 1,000 possible concurrent users, but paying for XD4 licenses on a per user basis, the Enterprise Edition (minimum required to do OS Streaming) would...

[October 8, 2009, 8:56]

Vista 30 Days After Install

Blog Comment Vista will never be a mission-critical OS, rather a very expensive multimedia player. If people knew the dangers, they would stay away from any OS of the Windows NT lineage (which was derived from DEC VMS).

[June 6, 2007, 18:47]

Organic Chemistry Quick-Study Guide. FREE Chemical Bonds, Molecular Geometry, Periodic Table in Demo

Downloads Easy to understand Organic compounds, formulas and isomers Nomenclature Reactions kinetics and mechanisms Reactions sorted by type and by class Spectroscopy Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC) No matter which device you use...

[December 4, 2006, 7:00]

Organic Chemistry Quick-Study Guide. FREE Chemical Bonds, Molecular Geometry, Periodic Table in Demo

Downloads Easy to understand Organic compounds, formulas and isomers Nomenclature Reactions kinetics and mechanisms Reactions sorted by type and by class Spectroscopy Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC) No matter which device you use...

[October 25, 2006, 8:00]

Sharp unleashes Linux handheld

News Sharp, which has been selling a Zaurus in Japan that uses Sharp's own OS, also plans to transition its handhelds there to Linux and expects to introduce a Linux-based Zaurus in Europe next year. Now they have an alternative," Steve Petix, associate...

[December 4, 2001, 8:58]

Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email

News But according to Novell's Hogan, the Forrester report also states that the added training costs for Linux are transitory and will reduce as companies gain more experience with the OS. In the aftermath of Ballmer's mail, ZDNet UK sought out a...

[October 28, 2004, 15:54]

NComputing X300 review

Reviews As far as licensing the programs installed on a desktop host is concerned, NComputing states, somewhat disingenuously, that: 'Application software and OS licenses for the host PC and access terminals may be required by the respective software...

[February 14, 2008, 15:13]

The Day Ahead: Will Handspring shares fare better than Palm?

News In fact, Handspring, whose Visor gadgets run on the Palm OS, is a less developed version of Palm. The company, which hopes to be more than just a hardware company, has said it will boost revenue by licensing its operating system (OS) and wireless...

[June 19, 2000, 13:45]

Is Sun subverting Linux from the inside?

News The decision to open source Solaris is simply the next step, aimed primarily at expanding adoption of the OS on x86 -- although Solaris' code base is the same whether it runs on x86 or Sun's own Sparc processor, which means that the move covers...

[February 1, 2005, 9:25]

What's next for Mozilla?

News Not every company wants their core rendering engine to be tied into the Windows OS and whatever business plan is developed for the Windows OS. Companies that wish to use layout technology or other types of technologies in their applications may not...

[May 1, 2002, 15:08]

Unix will reign over Windows for years

News Linux, despite the hype, will still remain a fringe operating system used at the edge of the data centre, said Arora, while IBM's OS/390 and OS/400 operating system, while shrinking in overall market share, will continue to be an earner for Big...

[April 28, 2003, 11:57]

Linux lovers hit hard times as home users

News However, you need an OS like Windows to connect to the Internet first, unless you've got a copy from a co-worker or friend. Apple's Mac OS X ranked second, with 3.2 percent of the total operating system market, while Linux placed third with 1.4...

[November 3, 2005, 17:20]

Criminal hackers reach beyond Windows and IE review

Reviews As more casual, less technical, users adopt Macs, expect to hear more about vulnerabilities exposed within the Mac OS, which is based on the Unix system. For example, security company Secunia also saw an increase in reported Mac OS flaws during 2004.

[March 22, 2005, 7:50]

The Year Ahead: Linux continues to push for the desktop

News IDC expects that Linux will become the No.desktop OS in the next year or two, surpassing the Mac OS, and will continue to hold this rank for the remainder of the company's five-year forecast. A year ago, it was widely thought that dissatisfaction...

[December 31, 2002, 6:05]

FretBoard

Downloads FretBoard is an Open Source Palm OS reference tool under GPL license for players of the stringed instruments, supporting Guitar, Banjo, Bouzouki, Bass (4, 5, and 6 string), Mandolin, Violin, Dulcimer, Chapman Stick, alternative guitar tunings, and...

[December 20, 2003, 0:38]

We all live in a Windows submarine...

Talkback How much do you think the liberal MP's who are so concerned really know about OS security? Its always the same lame microsoft bashing that goes on when something like this comes out - face it what's the alternative?

[November 1, 2004, 11:06]

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