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Article | 7/11/2009 Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, C...

Article | 5/11/2009 Microsoft preps SQL Server for battle in two enterprise arenas

Routinely accused of bloating Windows and Office, Microsoft Corp. has acted more like a skinny teenage boy with enterprise apps like SQL Server: despe...

Article | 4/11/2009 Parallels says new Mac virtualization app keeps edge over VMware

Parallels Inc. released the latest version of its Windows virtualization software for Mac computers on Wednesday, which it claims remains faster and m...

Article | 5/11/2009 Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst

Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm.

Article | 28/10/2009 Five ways to overclock a netbook (really!)

The words overclocking and netbook appear in a sentence together about as often as Steve Ballmer is spotted at a Linux convention. Netbooks are all ab...

Article | 29/10/2009 Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL d...

Article | 28/10/2009 With eye on Oracle and MySQL, Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB

Red Hat Inc. has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about th...

Article | 28/10/2009 Why Lenovo still lags in consumer PCs (and how it plans to fix that)

If all had gone according to plan, Lenovo Group Ltd. today would be trading elbows with Dell Inc. for the second spot in the PC market, while preparin...

Article | 27/10/2009 Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 'excellent release'

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only c...

Article | 21/10/2009 Arm unveils chip to make smartphones faster, cooler

Arm Holdings has introduced a processor for smartphones and other devices that it says will be cheaper, and more powerful and energy-efficient than th...

Article | 20/10/2009 Is SharePoint unstoppable, or mostly smoke and mirrors?

Guessing what eye-popping growth figures Microsoft will trumpet for its popular portal and collaboration app, SharePoint, has become an annual parlor ...

Article | 16/10/2009 Survey: Nine out of 10 of corporate PCs can run Windows 7

Of every 100 North American corporate PCs, 88 are powerful enough to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 7 operating system, which is much higher than the 5...

Article | 14/10/2009 HP TouchSmart PCs get touch-enabled Hulu, Netflix, Twitter

Reinforcing its lead in the nascent touchscreen PC market, Hewlett-Packard Co. announced three new touch-enabled Windows 7 PCs on Tuesday, including t...

Article | 10/10/2009 What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?

Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.

Article | 9/10/2009 IBM calls new DB2 grid feature an Oracle 'Exadata-killer'

On the eve of Oracle's OpenWorld user conference, IBM unveiled a new clustering feature that it says contends will help its flagship DB2 database trum...