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Windows Vista Business review
Reviews Hard-core Microsoft fans who live and breathe within the MSN, Live.com and Microsoft desktop software ecosystem will rejoice with the release of Windows Vista, but for the rest of us who are product-agnostic (who use programs like Firefox, Google...
[January 25, 2007, 14:22]
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, the leaders of the Developer Tools Lab, said the aim of the project is to follow the example of tools such as Google Apps in shifting desktop-based tasks to the internet.
[February 16, 2009, 15:48]
Do you know where your data is?
Leader With innovations such as Google Desktop 3, it isn't even clear what data is held where in what format - nor, if we do find out, is there any guarantee that the same will be true tomorrow. If you spend longer in Google than Word or buy more online...
[February 21, 2006, 13:05]
Nokia to buy major Linux company
News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for the KDE Linux project, one of the two main desktop...
[January 28, 2008, 10:29]
BeejiveIM for BlackBerry
Downloads With BeejiveIM you get a complete IM solution with real-time connectivity to IM buddies on AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, MSN, Google, and Jabber. BeejiveIM for BlackBerry brings the desktop Instant Messaging experience to your mobile phone.
[December 3, 2009, 19:43]
Samsung Android phone due in June
News Android's browser has never been explicitly named, but is based on the same WebKit framework as Google's desktop browser, Chrome. Samsung's Android handset combines the Google-led mobile platform with a five-megapixel camera, GPS and a 320x480...
[April 27, 2009, 14:32]
Ignore consumer tech at your peril, CIOs warned
News Gartner also said the potential security threat of new consumer-based technologies in the enterprise also needs to be addressed.silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel recently slammed Google's new desktop search tool because of the security risk it...
[May 5, 2006, 16:30]
Yahoo's BrowserPlus made available to all websites
News BrowserPlus, like Google's Gears, is software that can be plugged into a person's web browser to make web-based applications work more like native desktop programs. Another is desktop notifications, letting a web-based email, calendar or instant...
[November 11, 2008, 8:38]
Symbian confident of Nokia's support
News Qt is used on the Linux desktop environment, KDE, as well as a multitude of applications such as Skype and Google Earth. Nokia announced it was buying Trolltech on Monday, with a view towards making it easier for developers to design applications...
[January 30, 2008, 16:44]
Chrome OS: a first look review
Reviews What can be said safely is that Google's bet looks safe: that online computing has got to the stage where it makes an acceptable alternative to desktop-based computing for ordinary users doing ordinary things.
[November 24, 2009, 9:21]
Gmail flaw opens up access to emails
News Worms have used Google's search engine to find potentially vulnerable hosts on the Internet, and flaws in the company's desktop search program left computers that ran the software open to attack. A problem with Google's email service, Gmail, let...
[January 13, 2005, 7:30]
Email analysis tools finding their feet
News For instance, Google and EMC signed a new agreement last week that will add Google desktop search capabilities to EMC's software for managing corporate data. The product makes sifting through millions of emails to find relevant messages almost as...
[January 26, 2006, 16:30]
A quick guide to Windows Vista's new file system review
Reviews And, unlike many desktop search applets from Google and others, Windows Vista indexes your hard drive without much of a performance hit. The Start menu still exists (although in Windows Vista it expands and collapses as needed within a hierarchical...
[January 3, 2007, 9:35]
A quick guide to Windows Vista Business Edition review
Reviews Also, unlike many desktop search applets from Google and others, Windows Vista indexes your hard drive without much of a performance hit. The online service Windows Live Meeting is designed for collaboration across vast distances on different...
[December 6, 2006, 15:44]
What does Microsoft EU decision mean for Vista and Longhorn?
Blog Not only are serious curbs now in place to stop it using its dominance to plough market share for Vista and Longhorn but Google, Apple and Linux (server and a resurgent desktop) mean that the natural upgrade to the next Microsoft offering is no...
[September 17, 2007, 14:45]
Fluid
Downloads Are you tired of some random site crashing your browser and causing you to loose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab? Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application.
[March 2, 2009, 6:41]
Longhorn goes beyond search review
Reviews In other words, the desktop search tools from Google and Yahoo are going to have their work cut out. I'll be curious to see what Apple, Google and Yahoo do to keep their edge in desktop search. Whether Microsoft ships these tools first is an open...
[June 6, 2005, 9:00]
Photos: Inside the Hardy Heron review
Reviews You also get Google Calendar support in the Evolution email client. The new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (LTS stands for Long Term Support) is available in desktop (supported to 2011) and server (supported to 2013) versions, and features the familiar brown livery.
[April 24, 2008, 15:43]
Today's Vista launch is just the beginning
News Perhaps prompted by the success of Google Desktop Search, Vista's indexed search feature will scour for applications and data, and the search starts as soon as you start typing your search term. Within 12 months of the consumer launch of Windows...
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
Linux vendor lowers IPO price
News Much-watched search engine Google has run into obstacles, while nanotechnology specialist Nanosys withdrew its IPO altogether. Lindows, the Linux desktop software company that is changing its name to Linspire, lowered on Friday the expected value...
[August 9, 2004, 11:45]
