Stories by: Neil McAllister

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    Flash on Android: Look but don't touch 14/04/2011 20:07:00

    With their larger screens, long-lasting batteries, and powerful CPUs, tablets seem well suited for the kinds of rich multimedia applications that confound ordinary smartphones. But Apple famously won't allow Adobe Flash on its iOS mobile devices, including the iPad. This fued creates an ideal opportunity for competing tablet makers to step in and fill the void.
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    Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice 16/02/2011 22:04:00

    OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings -- particularly free ones like OpenOffice.org -- was called into question. Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project.
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    First look: Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish 24/11/2010 22:15:00

    Office 365: A revamped offering that combines the features of BPOS with Office 2010. From what we've seen of the Office 365 beta, it still has a long way to go before it can be considered a true turnkey solution for business.
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    From the labs: IT's future today 22/06/2010 05:12:00

    For all its promise of revolution, the computing industry often lags behind expectations.
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    What to expect from HTML 5 09/03/2010 07:50:00

    Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C).
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    Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back 23/02/2010 07:13:00

    It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates' handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline.
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    Top 5 Chrome OS myths debunked 23/11/2009 22:22:00

    Misconceptions and misinformation have surrounded the Chrome OS almost since the day it was announced. This week's press conference at Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus helped to clear the air, but uncertainty about what the search giant's new OS has to offer still remains.
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    ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier 28/10/2009 21:50:00

    For once, Intel knows how it feels to be the underdog.
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    Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 14/05/2009 12:00:00

    Having rocketed to prominence in just a few years as probably the most popular desktop Linux distributions, Ubuntu has earned a reputation for stability and ease-of-use. The latest edition - Ubuntu 9.04, aka, "Jaunty Jackalope" - continues that tradition and is mostly a maintenance release, but it brings a number of updates that should enhance its appeal.
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    First look: Ubuntu 9.04 stays the course 29/04/2009 07:59:00

    Having rocketed to prominence as one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in just a few years, Ubuntu has earned a reputation for stability and ease-of-use. The latest edition -- version 9.04, code-named "Jaunty Jackalope" -- continues that tradition and is mostly a maintenance release, but it brings a number of updates that should enhance its appeal.
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    Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux 23/01/2009 09:00:00

    Getting started with Linux can be an intimidating task, particularly for people who have never tried any operating system besides Windows. In truth, however, very little about Linux is actually difficult to use. It's simply a different OS, with its own approach to doing things. Once you learn your way around a Linux desktop, you're likely to find that it's no more challenging to work with than Windows or Mac OS.
 
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