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Article | 11/03/2011 PCs loaded with Windows 7 SP1 due in early April
Laptops and desktops from Lenovo with the upgraded Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become available starting in early April, with Hewlett-Packard ...
Article | 8/03/2011 Mozilla urges users to update graphics drivers for Firefox 4
Mozilla has urged users to update their graphics cards' drivers if they want to take advantage of Firefox 4's hardware acceleration.
Article | 8/03/2011 Work begins on Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot'
The final release of "Natty Narwhal," or version 11.04 of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, may still be more than a month away, but project foun...
Article | 5/03/2011 Microsoft launches IE6 deathwatch
Microsoft today launched a deathwatch for its 10-year-old Internet Explorer 6 browser, saying it wanted to "see IE6 gone for good."
Article | 3/03/2011 After 3 days, Google Gmail still not fixed for everyone
Three days after Google's Gmail first suffered an outage, some users still don't have their service back.
Article | 2/03/2011 Windows 8 tablet demo rumored for June
Windows 8 tablets are definitely on the way, but a taste of the finished product could be coming sooner than you think.
Article | 2/03/2011 Google still working to restore Gmail service
Two days after tens of thousands of Google Gmail users discovered their e-mail, chat histories and contacts had disappeared from their accounts, the p...
Article | 2/03/2011 Google to let Apps customers buy extra storage for Docs
Google will soon start letting Apps users buy additional storage for some of the applications in the hosted collaboration and communication suite.
Article | 1/03/2011 Gmail bug deletes e-mails for 150,000 users
The cloud has failed roughly 150,000 Gmail users, whose e-mails have been deleted and accounts disabled by a mysterious glitch.
Article | 1/03/2011 As Firefox 4 beta 12 debuts, Mozilla looks to Firefox 5
Mozilla on Friday rolled out what appears to be the last beta release of its Firefox 4 open source Web browser software.
Article | 28/02/2011 European Court to rule on legality of used software trading
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked to decide whether the trading of "used" software licenses is legal.
Article | 28/02/2011 Use Microsoft Excel for (nearly) everything
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hold more than a million rows of data and automate number crunching, but they can do so much more. Excel's simple interfa...
Article | 28/02/2011 Study: Apple's mobile browser is fastest
Sick of waiting for pages to load on your mobile device? Get an iPad or iPhone. That's the upshot of a mobile browser speed study done by a company ca...
Article | 28/02/2011 Photoshop turns 21: We take a look back
Adobe's Photoshop celebrates its 21st birthday this month, and with 12 major releases under its belt GeekTech decided to take a brief look back at the...
Article | 25/02/2011 Apple iPad, iOS influences show in Mac OS X preview
Apple's release on Thursday of a developer preview of the next Mac OS X version showcases a range of ideas and features adopted from the iOS-based iPa...
Article | 25/02/2011 Apple ships preview of Lion OS, reveals new features
Apple today released a preview of Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, to developers, who can download the new operating system from the Mac App Store.
Article | 23/02/2011 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is ready for download
Bug fixes and security patches don't make for the most exciting Windows update, but they're the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely av...
Article | 19/02/2011 Mozilla delays final Firefox beta
It's looking increasingly unlikely that Mozilla will ship Firefox 4 this month.
Article | 19/02/2011 Fedora and openSUSE Linux drop Unity efforts
Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the default interfa...
Article | 16/02/2011 Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffi...

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