Top-dog OS on the enterprise desktop? Linux and Apple had a golden chance to grab that title, and boy did they blow it! Despite having nothing better to offer enterprise customers than the ridiculous Vista or the ancient XP for the past two years, Microsoft still rules the enterprise desktop. And with Windows 7, that reign is set to continue.
Read more »Apple, Linux Miss Golden Opportunity to Snag Desktop Market Share
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Like the Pre? Wait Until It's Actually Finished
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Palm is taking a page from Apple's iPhone strategy book when it comes to keeping things quiet regarding its newly-announced Pre smartphone and webOS mobile platform. The two things Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) will say is that it is focused on completing software development and network certification requirements and expects devices to be available by June.
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ASCAP Targets "Copyleft / Free Culture" Enemy...
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"Performance rights organization (PRO) ASCAP is now pondering ways to defuse the influence of non-traditional copyright thinkers, according to correspondence shared Thursday with Digital Music News.
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Shuttle Linux Minis to Come with VIA
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Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer Shuttle has released a series of mini-desktops running Linux. The next generation will have power-efficient VIA Nano processors.
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Plea to Educators: Don't Force a Format Down Students' Throats
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There's a story making its rounds across the 'net about a woman who missed several online classes, and failed her semester, and she claims this happened because she bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it - instead of Windows. She didn't know what Ubuntu was, and was surprised to see that her Windows software, such as Microsoft Office, didn't work.
Read more »Enough is Enough. Higher Education...? Wake Up
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I have received a spate of emails in the past 60 days, complaining about various universities and corporations that are disallowing most anything but Windows to access their systems.
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Asus confirms Eee phone
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According to a report by the New York Times, the firm’s Chairman, Johnny Shih, said that the handset will be called, unimaginatively, the Eee Phone.
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What do Wal-Mart and open-source software have in common?
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The 451 Group, a market intelligence consultancy that proudly distinguishes itself from its "pay-for-play-propaganda" competitors, predicts that 2009 will be a big year for open-source software merger and acquisition activity.
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Death of the CD, a new world for Linux?
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If CDs and DVD's are on their way out (or soon will be), then what will Linux do in the near future? Will all distros migrate to some sort of flash media iso system, or will something else happen?
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Netbooks Head for the $200 Range: Good News for Open Source
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At this year's CES show, there was no shortage of netbooks, which have become a surprisingly strong challenge to the whole traditional notebook market. I remain surprised that more people in the open source community don't herald this trend as extremely positive for Linux, because Linux is making its way onto millions of netbooks and pre-loaded open source applications arrive with them.
Read more »Linux’s Easy Customization Puts it in a Good Place for Hardware Creators
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When you create a new device that you believe is one of the first in its category, the hardware design can only be as good as the software. As demonstrated by the iPhone's success, if you ignore the software, the hardware is worthless, no matter how good it is. What do you do, then, if you have a completely new device and you can't find software that is suited for it? The answer is Linux.
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Browser battle? They're more alike than different
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A panel discussion among browser executives Thursday shed a little light on the philosophical differences between four major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera), but more than anything showed how all these products are moving in the same direction.
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Open source developers moving to the cloud
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InternetNews.com has learned that a new survey set for official release on January 20th will report that 40 percent of open source project developers are planning on cloud deployments for their projects.
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Why Linux will crush Windows 7
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I've been toying with Windows 7 for a few days now. I'm not ready yet to talk about it in detail yet, but I can say that it's better than Vista SP1. Of course, saying 7 is better than Vista isn't saying much. However, I recently read a Network World column, which claims that Windows 7 will crush Linux. Yeah, and the Detroit Lions are going to win the Super Bowl this year.
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Tribler: BitTorrent and Beyond
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P2P (peer-to-peer) is the nature of the Net. You can fight that, or you can embrace it. Here in the US, the mainstream entertainment business has mostly been fighting it. Hollywood and its phone and cable company allies have long regarded P2P, and BitTorrent in particular, as a copyright piracy system and a bandwidth hog.
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