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Article | 29/07/2008 SourceForge Award Winners Announced

SourceForge.net's annual Community Choice Awards, designed to honor open source software projects in a variety of categories, have concluded. This yea...

Article | 14/07/2008 Developers: Firefox 3.1 update should be 'easy'

The release of Firefox 3.0 has been a resounding success, but for some the upgrade path has been less than painless. The latest version of the open so...

Article | 2/07/2008 Making desktop Linux work for business

Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows X...

Article | 20/06/2008 Nokia: Open source developers should play by our rules

I was a little surprised to hear Nokia vice president of software Ari Jaaski's comments last week. Not long ago, Nokia got off to a great start by emb...

Article | 18/06/2008 Run Windows software on Linux with Wine 1.0

After 15 years of development, Wine breathes a new beginning

Article | 16/06/2008 Google and Yahoo to partner on IM

Most of the attention to the recent Google/Yahoo partnership has focused on the two companies' search advertising plans, but the deal has implications...

Article | 10/06/2008 15 turning points in tech history

Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC ...

Article | 6/06/2008 Is Palm worth developing for?

Palm isn't dead yet! That's the word from Palm CEO Ed Colligan, speaking at the recent media launch of the Palm Centro in Australia. To hear him tell ...

Article | 1/06/2008 QuarkXPress 8 takes on InDesign

It's a different game for Quark these days. Once, its flagship QuarkXPress was far and away the leading software for professional print publishing; bu...

Article | 30/05/2008 How Microsoft lost the office file format battle

Score one for the good guys: Last week, Microsoft announced that not only would Office 2007 Service Pack 2 support the ODF (Open Document Format) stan...

Article | 28/05/2008 Internet Explorer 8 beta due in third quarter

I've given a lot of attention to the forthcoming Firefox 3.0 lately, but let's not forget that <a href=" http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Corpora...

Article | 21/05/2008 Make older add-ons work with Firefox 3.0

If you're like me, you've been playing around with the beta releases of Firefox 3.0. The new version of the open source browser is better-looking, use...

Article | 9/05/2008 Review: OpenOffice.org Beta Fails the Office 2007 Test

I'm not embarrassed to admit it: I'm a big fan of Office 2007. I think Microsoft got a lot right with its latest release, starting with the ribbon int...

Article | 7/05/2008 Webroot to offer security by subscription

Nobody likes desktop PC security software. It's intrusive, it slows you down, and it constantly needs updating. And if you think blocking viruses and ...

Article | 10/04/2008 Adobe courts IPTV with media player

I've been playing around with the new Adobe Media Player (AMP), which made its way out of Adobe Labs to receive a formal 1.0 release Wednesday. It's a...

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