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Article | 19/11/2010 Why tablet computing hasn't been big business

Over at Samsung's headquarters, the senior vice president of its Mobile Communications Division has gone on record saying that businesses will soon be...

Article | 13/11/2010 5 awesome free tools for small businesses

These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an establish...

Article | 13/11/2010 5 tips for the new tech support pro

There are two types of tech support professionals. There's the one who, responding to a call for help, brusquely shoves the individual aside, fixes th...

Article | 13/11/2010 5 fabulous free tools for small businesses

These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an establish...

Article | 12/11/2010 Firefox F1 fights back against RockMelt

The timing might sound suspicious to some observers, but Mozilla has just announced a social networking plugin for Firefox that offers some of the fea...

Article | 11/11/2010 Future of IT Is Multiplatform and Mobile, Dell Says

Once upon a time it was nice and simple. If you were in charge of corporate IT, you bought Microsoft. Serious quantities of computing power required a...

Article | 9/11/2010 What Dell's purchase of cloud company signals

A little-noted announcement earlier this month could have huge implications for cloud take-up in smaller businesses. Dell has snapped up Boomi, a comp...

Article | 5/11/2010 Why NASA Mars lab turns to cloud computing

The NASA team behind the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers--the Jet Propulsion Laboratory--has announced a move to cloud computing.

Article | 3/11/2010 Top 10 Amazon Kindle irritations

I've have a Kindle 3 for a month or two now, and I can confirm that it's a thing of beauty. The ebook revolution might not necessarily start here, but...

Article | 10/07/2009 Chrome OS could offend the open source community

The announcement a few days ago of Google's new Chrome OS was simultaneously shocking and expected. It's a typically understated and quietly ambitious...

Article | 3/07/2009 Moblin: a first look at Intel's open-source OS

Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them.

Article | 18/06/2009 DIY netbook Linux

There are a variety of netbook distros out there, but you can have a little fun creating your own. Here are some software packages and tips worth cons...

Article | 15/05/2009 Switching my dad to Linux -- part two

As mentioned in my last posting, I'm not a very good Linux evangelist. I don't try and convert family and friends to Linux. Therefore, as surprising a...

Article | 19/05/2009 Ubuntu One service stirs up open-source controversy

The commercial sponsor and originator of the Ubuntu project, Canonical, has stepped into new territory with the launch of a storage and sync service c...

Article | 13/05/2009 Switching my dad to Linux - part one

You might think that, as a Linux guy, I spend all my time converting friends and family to Linux. This is an epic cliche of the Slashdot-like Linux pe...