Roughly 30 percent of Netbook sales in Melbourne — Australia’s second-largest city — involve customers requesting Linux rather than Windows, according to Geek Central, a fast-growing solution provider that serves the region.

A 2-year-old post serves as another warning about Mono

The chairman chose to ignore the voices of more than 2 million people who have urged Washington to support real and lasting Net Neutrality protections. His rule, for the first time in history, allows discrimination over the mobile Internet, paving the way for widespread industry abuses.

Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works.

Some of Microsoft's latest mischiefs and law-dodging moves leave its competitors out in the cold, even on the ideally-standardised Web

Ballmer uses the faithful IDG to spread disinformation about his intentions towards Google Android, while he plots with Australia's Telstra on improving methods of gouging the hapless Australian public.

Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works.

Telstra could be about to receive an avalanche of complaints from the global open source software community, after a local developer accused the company over the weekend of violating the terms of the popular GNU General Public License

Microsoft's mischiefs in Italian universities and a few more stories from Europe (Holland & Portugal)