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Knoppix slims down Linux Live CD
News It would be extremely helpful if vendors would just publish example driver source code for new hardware under a free licence, but most of them seem to just wait for Linux developers to find out everything on their own.
[December 20, 2004, 16:10]
FBI scrutinises e-voting hack
News VoteHere, which has posted some of its technical documents to the Web at VerifiedVoting.org, and has pledged to reveal the source code to its software when it completes an internal review within months, said no elections were compromised in the...
[December 31, 2003, 8:05]
T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream): a first look review
Reviews Some of the available applications include ShopSavvy, an application that lets you scan the UPC code of a product with the phone's camera and instantly compare prices with other stores; Ecorio, an application that tracks your carbon footprint; and...
[September 24, 2008, 9:58]
64-bit Windows, Apache make their way to Opteron
News AMD is also demonstrating Opteron and desktop chips using Opteron technology -- code-named "Hammer" -- at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, also in Las Vegas, this week. In keeping with the theme of co-existence of 32-bit applications, AMD...
[November 18, 2002, 14:33]
When it comes to security, ignorance is bliss at the top
News And the ways in which spyware can get onto a machine continue to thrive with 56 percent of firms letting staff install and use peer-to-peer software - a common source of malicious code - and 43 percent of firms doing nothing to limit employee Web...
[March 15, 2005, 9:40]
ThinkSecret.com editor secures legal help for Apple battle
News He didn't publish source code," Gross said of the articles in question. Among the products that the site forecasted were Apple's iWork office software, an update to iLife and a sub-$500 Mac. The publisher of ThinkSecret.com said on Wednesday that...
[January 20, 2005, 8:10]
HP puts vision into e-service effort
News As for e-speak, which had been code-named Fremont, HP promised to make the middleware platform open source before year's end. For instance, in the "apps on tap area," Microsoft Corp.and HP will offer Microsoft's Exchange groupware program and Back...
[May 19, 1999, 7:46]
Novell to share details of Microsoft pact
News During the panel discussion, he said Novell effectively has legitimised accusations of open-source code impurity. We are proud about the quality of our code. If Novell comes along and says my code is not mine and cannot be distributed without...
[May 24, 2007, 10:45]
Leader: Microsoft afraid of Linux? Not likely...
News In spite of a brief attempt to capitalise on the appeal of open source code by Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, there are no indications that Microsoft's thinking about opening up access to its source code.
[October 2, 1998, 9:39]
Experts say Microsoft's XML play won't backfire
News Customers will also lose some ability to use the rise of open source Office alternatives as a bargaining chip when negotiating licensing fees with Microsoft, O'Kelly said. An example of the gains that could be achieved via such XML tie-ups was...
[June 7, 2005, 10:55]
Ozzie takes Microsoft beyond Windows
News In a nod to the popularity of open source among web start-ups and developers, Microsoft said it will release the source code for its Dynamic Language Runtime — software for running applications written with dynamic, or scripting, languages — under...
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Closing the Office door on Microsoft
Talkback As for real tech support, in a major company with a huge IT dept there's probably more mileage in sifting through the source code than there is sitting on the phone listening to elevator music. I should point out that it's not down to OO or Mozilla...
[June 17, 2004, 6:39]
Microsoft: open source is flawed
News In the paper, which accompanied remarks Mundie made to an audience at New York University's School of Business, he argues that releasing source code into the public domain is "unhealthy", causes security risks and "as history has shown, while this...
[May 4, 2001, 8:13]
Microsoft and Brother sign patent-sharing deal
News Our partners and customers continue to demand greater collaboration as they run increasingly diverse IT environments using technology and solutions that rely on both proprietary and open source code," Microsoft's general manager of intellectual...
[February 6, 2009, 12:28]
Will Mozilla's Lightning strike Outlook?
News The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird email application. Thunderbird does not offer an equivalent comparison to Microsoft Office Outlook," Microsoft...
[December 23, 2004, 8:00]
Novell readies revamped NetWare
News By midyear, Novell said, it will ship NetWare 6.5, code-named Nakoma, a new release of the software with features that simplify network administration and streamline network access. NetWare 6.5 introduces a "virtual office" feature that is designed...
[February 7, 2003, 15:16]
Virtual server 2007 delayed
News Much of Microsoft's attention is directed toward the future with a successor, the Microsoft hypervisor, code-named Viridian. The postponement comes on the heels of Microsoft's delays of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
[March 29, 2006, 10:05]
US Report: NT 5.0 readied for early takeoff?
News Last week at the Intel Developers Forum in California, Microsoft officials said NT 5.0 Beta 3 could hit by Thanksgiving, with final code delivery possible 12 to 15 weeks after that, according to conference attendees.
[September 22, 1998, 7:00]
Open source to industry: It's payback time
News Speaking to ZDNet News at the Content Ownership in the Digital Economy (CODE) conference in Cambridge, England, Perens said that he planned to ask the companies in particular about "patent issues in support of the open source movement".
[April 9, 2001, 7:40]
Microsoft casts its shadow over Macworld
News In Microsoft's first salvo, the company revealed details about the next version of its digital media technology, code-named Corona, including that it officially will be known as Windows Media 9 Series.
[July 16, 2002, 10:00]
