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Why the Google-Motorola deal is good/bad news

...manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, LG and Sony-Ericsson. This is always bad news, which means it could be good news for Microsoft. Google said... Read more

15 August, 2011

Things Google is bad at: running a company

...clear decision by the jury in the Oracle-Google lawsuit, , there's bad news for Google as a company whatever the end result and whatever... Read more

14 May, 2012

Linux Mint Debian Edition - Big Changes on the Way

There's good news for many, and perhaps bad news for a few, coming for Linux Mint Debian Edition. This has... Read more

27 February, 2012

UK Gov't - "too expensive" to upgrade from IE6

If you work for the Government or write software for government services, bad news - you're going to be stuck with IE6 for the foreseeable... Read more

31 July, 2010

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Scorecard

...of course two-finger scroll doesn't work at all. The really bad news: It absolutely refused to install on my Samsung NF310 netbook. This... Read more

29 April, 2012

Kindle Fire takes half the US Android tablet market

...Lenovo's IdeaPad growing from a small base. Either way, it's bad news for Google that a forked version of its software -- which has... Read more

26 April, 2012

Facebook hopes to raise $16bn in public flotation

...s IPO, the $38 price did not reflect two pieces of potentially bad news that came through for the company this week. The Wall Street... Read more

18 May, 2012

Windows Phone only lets you swap phones once a month

...good news: it told me exactly how to deactivate old phones. The bad news: you have to do it from Zune on your PC, not... Read more

16 April, 2012

RIM: when 35.7% margin looks bad

...you think of the way financial reports put a dollar value on bad news, you could argue with the $355 million chalked up to lost... Read more

30 March, 2012

2002 Ultrabooks & tablets, more memory for Windows 8?

Windows 8 won't run on every XP-era PC; watch out for PAE Looking for a PC in the office that still had Windows XP on... Read more

23 March, 2012

BlackBerry 10 and getting tablets right: What RIM needs to do in 2012

...drew to a close the BlackBerry-maker had one last bit of bad news to impart: there would be no BlackBerrys running its planned new... Read more

9 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

PCLinuxOS Updated - Almost Overlooked

...new base image for PCLinuxOS. It might have been the recent very bad news for the developers and contributors, or it might have been my... Read more

23 October, 2011

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

...driver for the Ralink 5390 WiFi adapter, so WiFi works great. Hooray. Bad news on this one, the blasted Synaptic ClickPad doesn't work properly... Read more

14 October, 2011

Samsung NP-P580 Notebook and Linux, of Course

I have been looking for a replacement for my main notebook/desktop system for quite a while now. It will soon be four... Read more

21 September, 2011

Hardware Support in Ubuntu Oneiric

...touchpad properly. Ah well, one for two, that's better than nothing. Bad News - It still has the Unity desktop (yeah, yeah, I know, but... Read more

12 August, 2011

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