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Article | 17/02/2011 Microsoft IE9 not a 'modern browser,' Mozilla exec claims
Microsoft says IE9 is "the world's fastest browser." Mozilla claims IE9 doesn't even qualify as modern.
Article | 15/02/2011 Mozilla: Firefox 4 for Android to ship in a few weeks
The Mozilla Foundation expects to release the final code for the Firefox 4 browser for Android mobile devices in a few weeks, with one more beta versi...
Article | 3/02/2011 Myriad updates come to open source software
January was a busy month for open source software, with numerous packages receiving key updates and improvements. Since so many have been released in ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Firefox 'Do Not Track' ready for download now
Adventuresome Firefox users who can't wait to try out the "do not track" feature can do so now by grabbing a "nightly build" of the browser. Nightly b...
Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft's Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30 per cent last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said on Thursday.
Article | 31/01/2011 Office 2010 sales power record Microsoft quarter
Sales of Office 2010 -- especially to consumers -- fueled Microsoft's record quarter, the company and analysts said last week.
Article | 28/01/2011 Linux vendors teaming up for an app store
There seems to be no end to the momentum propelling Linux into the mainstream these days, and this week news came out that's surely among the most exc...
Article | 20/01/2011 Does Microsoft deal signal death of HP's Neoview?
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft's unveiling Wednesday of a series of data warehousing appliances has some observers sounding the death knell for HP's Ne...
Article | 20/01/2011 Why some companies are ditching their spreadsheets
Until a few years ago, Thule Group's North American division would have been considered a "classic spreadsheet-driven" company, according to Vice Pres...
Article | 18/01/2011 Firefox 4 beta 9 gives short shrift to Linux users
Considerable fanfare greeted Friday's release of the ninth--and apparently final--beta version of Firefox 4, which boosted the popular Web browser wit...
Article | 19/01/2011 Details emerge of patents Novell is selling to Microsoft
Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for US$450 million...
Article | 15/01/2011 Mozilla delivers latest Firefox 4 beta
Mozilla today shipped Firefox 4 Beta 9, perhaps the last it will release before it pushes toward a final version now planned to ship by the end of Feb...
Article | 15/01/2011 Apple to give away $10K as App Store nears 10B downloads
Apple will reward the customer who downloads the 10 billionth app from the iOS App Store with a $10,000 iTunes gift card, the company said today.
Article | 14/01/2011 Mozilla pushes devs to make Feb. ship date for Firefox 4
Mozilla hopes to have a final version of Firefox 4 ready to ship by the end of February, according to comments made by the company's engineering direc...
Article | 13/01/2011 Mozilla exec: Firefox 4 will arrive in February
Firefox 4 is nearly ready for release, a recent post on Mozilla's developer mailing list suggests.
Article | 13/01/2011 Microsoft to release WebMatrix dev software
Microsoft plans to launch an application on Thursday for quickly ramping up websites and lightweight Web applications, called WebMatrix.
Article | 12/01/2011 Jaspersoft rearchitects BI stack
Anticipating greater use of BI (business intelligence) on the Web and in the cloud, Jaspersoft has rebuilt its software using a standards-based Web ar...
Article | 12/01/2011 Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC consortium filing withdrawn
In a move that will be seen by many as <strong>a sign of open-source advocates' influence</strong>, <strong>a filing in Germany </strong>to create a c...
Article | 12/01/2011 Google kills H.264 support in Chrome
Your move Apple: Google announced that they are changing Chrome's support of HTML5 'video' to be, in Google's view, more friendly towards open develo...
Article | 12/01/2011 Microsoft patches critical Windows drive-by bug
Microsoft today patched three vulnerabilities in Windows, one that could be exploited by attackers who dupe users into visiting a malicious Web site.

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