Ubuntu Takes Community Ideas From Dell
News The most popular at the moment, with 1,393 votes, is "Fix suspend and hibernate". The least popular, with -149 votes, is "Use more RAM memory". Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given...
[February 29, 2008, 10:56]
Pressure Mounts On Dell Over Linux PCs
News One motion, entitled "Sell Linux PCs Wordwide [sic] — not only the United States", had attracted over 23,000 votes at the time of writing. A separate motion, "Dell Ubuntu for Europe", calls for the same thing and has garnered over 10,000 votes.
[June 18, 2007, 17:06]
SpamGuru: An Enterprise Anti-Spam Filtering System
White Papers First, SpamGuru relieves the burden of anti-spam administration by automating several tasks such as maintaining white- and black lists, updating filters automatically in response to user votes, etc. This paper presents SpamGuru, an anti-spam...
[March 11, 2005, 2:00]
No-NSFW
Downloads NSFW rating is determined by user votes. No-NSFW is a Firefox Extension which warns you about NSFW links before you click them. When you hover on an external link, the plugin gets the rating (NSFW, SFW or unrated) for that link.
[April 17, 2008, 18:06]
ISO Rejects National Bodies' Appeals Against OOXML
News In his blog, Updegrove claimed to have received details of the IEC votes — a screenshot of the ISO votes was apparently illegible — which appeared to show that the UK had unsuccessfully voted for all four appeals to be heard.
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
Dell Users Demand More Linux Options
News Other users called for all contact centre support to be moved from India to the US (4,500 votes) and for more awareness of green IT issues (3,000 votes). Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux...
[February 20, 2007, 16:03]
Protect Your Privacy When Searching Online
News It compiles the results, decides which Web sites received the most votes as relevant, and displays the top scorers. Search engines place a multibillion-dollar infrastructure at the hands of any random user who stops by their Web site.
[August 10, 2006, 16:50]
Vote
Downloads Votes only count once per user so results are not skewed. Vote your choice for President and compare results from other voters who also download and run this survey. Check back often to see ongoing, updated results.
[February 10, 2008, 23:31]
Nokia To Buy Major Linux Company
News The deal has been unanimously approved by Trolltech's board of directors, and holders representing around two-thirds of Trolltech's shares and votes have also accepted the offer in advance. Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and...
[January 28, 2008, 10:29]
UK Unix Users Seek Funding To Pursue OOXML Fight
News OOXML won enough votes to be accepted as an ISO standard, but that process has now been stalled after four countries — South Africa, Brazil, Venezuela and India — appealed against the decision, claiming a flawed balloting process.
[June 19, 2008, 14:22]
The Day Ahead: Akamai Could Cache In On The Election Hubbub
News Some sites were still sluggish through Wednesday as folks looked for the latest on the recount of Florida votes. At a recent investment conference, Akamai chief financial officer Tim Weller said the company's primary job is moving the content...
[November 9, 2000, 12:13]
Dell Tests Users' Appetite For Linux
News Dell admitted that it was doing this after another project designed to glean customer feedback, IdeaStorm, revealed that adopting Linux was easily the most popular idea, with 83,000 votes. Last month, Dell acknowledged user pressure for it to adopt...
[March 14, 2007, 15:49]
Bush Drops In On Salesforce.com Conference
News Hell, I won an election with fewer votes than the other guy, I'll do it again. Attendees at this year's Salesforce.com user conference in San Francisco were expecting presentations from IT industry luminaries such as Sun's president Jonathan...
[November 3, 2004, 8:18]
Debian Developers Call For More Releases
News Although they are all competing for the votes of the currently 945 Debian developers spread around the globe, Garrett's fellow candidates for the DPL position seem to agree with him. The lack of a new stable release of Debian GNU/Linux since July...
[March 18, 2005, 14:50]
News Schmooze: The End Of The Merger Marathon
News The HP buyout of Compaq looks set to go through, although there will probably be scenes reminiscent of the last US presidential election as HP counts its too-close-to-call proxy votes. Morpheus tracks user surfing habits
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News On 2 April, Microsoft's OOXML standard, which had previously been accredited by standards body Ecma, gained enough votes to be ratified by the ISO document-format committee, SC 34. It's, at best, a tutorial and user's guide for people who want to...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
Motorola Takes Linux Into The Mobile Mainstream
News It also doesn't help that top phone maker Nokia has refused to swing its votes toward Linux. Trolltech is the provider of the Qtopia development environment and graphical user interface, which is used by many Linux mobile-phone makers.
[July 31, 2006, 12:35]
UK P2P User? Hope You Like US Prison Food
Blog Comment If 70% of the Senate votes the bill into law, the President doesn't even get a chance to veto it. Once it passes the House of Representatives it goes to the Senate for either ratification or modification.
[June 12, 2008, 9:49]
Issues Like This
Talkback And even if it is, it's only about fighting symptoms, PR, power, control, votes and such. User friendliness and "functionality" is still chosen above security. Bad security is mostly never a single entity fault.
[May 12, 2007, 23:08]
Google Votes To Put Surfers In Charge
News Votes tallied will not immediately influence search results on Google, which is merely evaluating the feature for now, according to a spokesman. Rather than using the votes to tinker with the specific rankings of particular pages or sites, he said...
[November 27, 2001, 14:44]
