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Article | 12/08/2009 Google Caffeine FAQ: your questions answered
Google has unveiled Caffeine, a "next-generation architecture" for its Web search platform. The retooled search engine is said to be faster, more accu...
Article | 11/08/2009 Open-source users revolt over OpenOffice.org ribbon-esque UI
The open-source faithful are lambasting a proposed overhaul of OpenOffice.org's user interface, with critics saying it would "ape" Microsoft Office's ...
Article | 11/08/2009 Does GPL still matter?
Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development sof...
Article | 7/08/2009 Windows 7: How to get it early
Microsoft released the ready-to-ship version of its Windows 7 operating system to software developers and IT professionals on Thursday, raising the qu...
Article | 6/08/2009 A brief history of geeks
No so long ago, the computer geek was confined to the back rooms and basements of companies everywhere.
Article | 5/08/2009 Sex, murder, and Facebook: the perils of social media
Why would jurors in a huge murder trial violate a judge's order to not discuss the case by posting seemingly innocuous comments about the trial on the...
Article | 1/08/2009 Firefox hits 1 billion downloads -- so what's next?
Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has just hit a new milestone, reaching its 1 billionth user download.
Article | 30/07/2009 What the Microsoft-Yahoo-Bing Deal Means for You
So what's it mean for computer users now that Microsoft and Yahoo today finally are announcing their long-anticipated marriage of Microsoft's Bing sea...
Article | 30/07/2009 The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers
Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No July Fools' joke he...
Article | 30/07/2009 Yahoo Search: RIP
Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who ...
Article | 30/07/2009 Microsoft-Yahoo search deal: 3 reasons why it makes sense
The Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. courtship that has been taking place on and off for the past four years had grown as tiresome as the annual Brett F...
Article | 29/07/2009 FAQ: Microsoft's browser 'ballot screen,' the EU and you
Microsoft's surprise offer last week to European Union (EU) antitrust regulators that it will give Windows users a chance to download rivals' browsers...
Article | 28/07/2009 4chan welcomes AT&T to the rogue Internet
How does that old Jim Croce song go?
Article | 28/07/2009 Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever cr...
Article | 23/07/2009 Does Yahoo still matter?
For a while there, I kinda forgot Yahoo existed. This week's news brings the company back with a vengeance.
Article | 23/07/2009 A look at cloud computing's dark lining
Unless you've been living in a cave all summer like one of my friends (it's in Finland, he's an artistic genius) you've probably heard the buzz about ...
Article | 24/07/2009 Windows 7 RTM doesn't cure upgrade woes
It is hard--make that impossible--to recommend that Windows XP users upgrade to Windows 7.
Article | 24/07/2009 Gmail wish list: five features we'd like to see
In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.
Article | 24/07/2009 Microsoft's Linux madness has a method
Under the glare of Microsoft's historic Linux kernel code submission this week is the fact that the software giant on many levels still lives in a com...
Article | 23/07/2009 Windows 7 RTM: Is it really better than Vista?
With the appearance of Windows 7's Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build, Microsoft may be hoping that it can finally dismiss Windows Vista as an unsuc...

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