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China Sets Up Windows And Linux Labs
News Also on 11 March, the same ministry reached agreement with Microsoft to build its platform and embedded software labs for the National Software and ICs Public Service Platform. According to the agreement, Microsoft, under the guidance of the...
[March 11, 2004, 15:45]
Palm Gets Open-source Browser
News Linux Labs has released a beta-test version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds, seeking to fill a gap left by the recent closure of Digital Paths and its DPWeb mobile browser. Linux Labs will be offering server collocation for the...
[April 9, 2002, 14:30]
LiMo Gets Openwave Browser And Messaging
News Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Further, we plan to reuse many of the Openwave technologies in our Purple Labs Linux...
[July 4, 2008, 12:24]
Cheap 3G Mobile Linux Handset Unveiled
News The result of collaboration between NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs — a mobile Linux development company with a focus on mass-market devices — the Purple Magic handset is a "reference design", meaning it can be tweaked by manufacturers to...
[January 31, 2008, 15:53]
Introductory Note 151: Printing From Linux In The Teaching Laboratories
White Papers Linux users in Teaching Laboratory may print to the laser printer in the Lab or to printers in other Labs. Staff and research Linux users may also print to printers in their own Labs and rooms. There are several mechanisms for printing from Linux.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Siemens Backs Open Source
News As well as contributing to furthering the adoption of Linux in the mobile sphere, Siemens will also take part in the OSDL's efforts to drive open source uptake through the Labs' carrier grade Linux and data centre Linux schemes.
[December 8, 2005, 9:45]
TurboLinux Makes Desktop Debut
News Having originated on the Pacific Rim, TurboLinux is the only version of Linux PC Week Labs knows of for the Japanese and Chinese languages. Tests of TurboLinux Workstation 3.6 by ZDNet sister publication PC Week Labs found that it has an appealing...
[September 9, 1999, 10:59]
Centrino To Get Linux Support
News Although the Linux support software for Centrino is working at Intel's labs, it hasn't been fully tested and full completion of the project hinges on the timing of requirements from computer makers, company spokesman Scott McLaughlin said on Monday.
[March 25, 2003, 8:22]
Microsoft Readies Linux Lab's Public Face
News We're opening the doors to what we do in the Linux labs," Hilf said on Wednesday. Hilf said Microsoft's product groups use the Linux labs to test how well upcoming Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, will work with Linux and other open...
[April 6, 2006, 9:45]
Windows Dominance To Last 'two To Four Years'
News Linux improvements are advancing quickly," he said, but added: "Linux efforts are kind of all over the place -- each vendor, like IBM, has its own Linux labs," which don't have the same scope or time to devote to boosting performance benchmarks...
[November 17, 2004, 14:45]
Red Hat Tux 2.0 Blows Away Apache
News In the case of eWeek Labs' Web server benchmark, Red Hat's Tux 2.0 Web server running on a Linux 2.4 kernel has taken performance far beyond what was previously possible and blazes the way for future Web servers built on the same architecture.
[June 19, 2001, 15:55]
Linux Lab Cuts Staff And Focuses On Legal Work
News Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work. Chief executive Stuart Cohen resigned to pursue opportunities with higher-level open-source...
[December 6, 2006, 14:09]
Virus Writers Get Slapper Happy
News Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs said in a release Friday that more than 1,600 servers had been infected by this latest variant as of Friday morning and are now controlled by the worm via special channels on the Internet relay chat system.
[October 7, 2002, 7:44]
Linux To Face Off Against NT Again?
News And, as was the case with the last PCWeek Labs-sponsored Mindcraft benchmark, representatives from Microsoft Corp.and the open-source community are both expected to participate in the testing process.
[July 1, 1999, 10:25]
Compaq IPaq Plunges Into Inferno
News Inferno, an operating system originally developed by Bell Labs for devices such as set top boxes and telephones, has been ported to Compaq's iPaq handheld computer. Inferno is distributed by Vita Nuova Holdings, based in York, England, which also...
[June 28, 2001, 12:47]
Putting The Fun Back Into Hacking
News In real life, Cowan is a chief researcher with Wirex Communications, a maker of security software for the Linux operating-system, and his fictitious company, Weiss Labs, was one of eight teams taking part in the contest.
[August 6, 2002, 8:12]
Lab To Sample Linux For Weapons Work
News Linux NetworX could benefit greatly from convincing the Los Alamos and Livermore labs that Linux clusters are worthwhile. The labs are funded by the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which has spent hundreds of millions...
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
IBM And SCO Gather Reinforcements
News Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stuart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta.
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
How To Build Your Own Supercomputer, HP-style
News These are really standard machines, we didn't even open the box," said Bruno Richard, program manager with HP Labs Grenoble. At a technical session last summer, scientists from HP's own labs in Grenoble started talking to experts at the local INRIA...
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback It complained that there was no hard disk (S-ATA), had to go out and buy a floppy drive for my "legacy free" system, download the driver on my Linux system and copy the files to floppy, then it installed Windows, but it didn't recognise my video...
[November 12, 2005, 8:31]
