A few weeks back, IBM and Canonical, the head sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, announced a plan to deliver Linux desktops and software to Africa. The effort was originally announced over a year ago, in August of 2008 as the Microsoft-free PC Effort. The basic idea was to have a Linux operating system with IBM smart client applications [...]
Google has always withheld the number of servers running in its data centers, but at a recent ACM workshop presentation, Google engineer Jeff Dean showed that the company is in preparations to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. One of the keynote speakers on large-scale computing systems, Dean discussed some of [...]
A Los Angeles woman is suing Toyota for $10 million over a marketing campaign that she claims frightened her so much, she incorrectly believed she was being stalked. Filed Sept. 28 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the lawsuit states that Amber Duick had difficulty eating, sleeping and going to work during March and April of last year, after [...]
A Tennessee woman was arrested last month for “poking” another user on Facebook, a digital greeting that has been described as the equivalent of waving at someone across a crowded room.
An affidavit filed with the Sumner County General Sessions Court on Sept. 25 stated that Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee violated a legal order [...]
Today, Microsoft announced that it will release its largest-ever number of security updates this Tuesday in order to fix flaws in all versions of Windows. With the addition of updates for Internet Explorer, SQL Server, Office, other important developer tools and the enterprise-grade Forefront Security client software, it’s going to be a busy Tuesday.
The company [...]
In light of Google’s recent push for a book settlement, their past is being considered and it’s true to say that it’s surprisingly unmarred. In this specific market however, Google has made mistakes. The worst of these is known as Usenet
A massive internet and dial-up-based message board system brought to life in 1980. For decades, [...]
According to new research by NPD, more than eight out of ten Mac owners also own a PC.
The survey revealed that 12% of North American households with computers own a Mac. But out of these, 85% also own a Windows PC. This confirms a long standing suspicion that thdivide between Mac and PC users is nowhere near as clear [...]
Last month, Microsoft’s Windows Vista lost market share for the first time in about 20 months, an indicator of users already abandoning the much ridiculed operating system in favor of the new Windows 7. According to Net Applications, Vista dropped a whole 0.2 percentage points during September, ending the month with an 18.6% presence in [...]
Recovery.gov, a heavily advertised government-run transparency site that relaunched on Monday after criticisms about it’s actual content, still fails to meet the federal government’s accessibility standards or and practices. The non-compliance issues relate mostly to display of data tables — an essential point given the site’s motto of “Data, Data & More Data.” This is [...]
