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Article | 12/03/2009 OLPC set to dump x86 for Arm chips in XO-2

One Laptop Per Child is set to dump x86 processors, instead opting to put low-power Arm-based processors in its next-generation XO-2 laptop with the a...

Article | 12/03/2009 Microsoft patches first critical bug in Windows 7 beta

Microsoft patched the first critical vulnerability in Windows 7 Tuesday as it rolled out an update that fixes three flaws in the new operating system'...

Article | 10/03/2009 Dell launches its first rugged touch-screen laptop

Dell on Tuesday is expected to launch the tough Latitude E6400 XFR laptop with a touch screen, which the company claims can withstand drops, dust and ...

Article | 11/03/2009 App-compatibility toolkit for Windows 7 due in April

Microsoft next month plans to release a toolkit to help business customers begin testing their existing applications for compatibility with Windows 7.

Article | 11/03/2009 Past was guide for changes to Windows development

About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft's Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough que...

Article | 7/03/2009 Microsoft confirms IE8 kill switch in Windows 7

Microsoft Friday confirmed that users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), as well as several other integrated applications, from Windows...

Article | 6/03/2009 Report: PC industry will see biggest decline ever in 2009

Along with much of the rest of the economy, the PC industry will be singing the blues this year, with worldwide shipments declining to 275 million uni...

Article | 4/03/2009 Microsoft devising Office for netbooks

Microsoft is bending its Office franchise toward netbooks and is developing packages that are unique to that market, according to the head of the comp...

Article | 6/03/2009 Mozilla patches eight Firefox bugs, six critical

Mozilla Corp. has patched eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox, half of them critical memory corruption flaws in the browser's layout and JavaScr...

Article | 6/03/2009 Intel and Dell sue Canadian company for 'netbook' trademark

Intel and Dell are seeking from the U.S. District Court and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a trademark cancellation over the t...

Article | 5/03/2009 Microsoft makes its case for Windows 7 in the enterprise

Weeks after making its case for why enterprises should dump Windows XP for Windows Vista, Microsoft talked up the merits of its upcoming operating sys...

Article | 5/03/2009 Mozilla slates overdue Firefox 3.1 beta for March 10

After several delays, Mozilla Tuesday set a release schedule for Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, the next milestone on the road to the browser's first major upgra...

Article | 3/03/2009 Cebit: MSI's svelte X-Slim laptops to get more powerful

After turning heads at CES with its X-Slim laptops Micro-Star International (MSI) is using the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week to unve...

Article | 3/03/2009 ASUS Eee PC 1000HE ships sans Linux or Vista

ASUS's latest netbook model, the Eee PC 1000HE, is now available in Australia with updated specs, including 9 and a half hours of battery life, and a ...

Article | 3/03/2009 Safari loses, Firefox gains market share

Although Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) continued to bleed market share last month, Apple Inc.'s Safari was an even bigger loser during Febr...

Article | 27/02/2009 Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again, slates another beta

Mozilla Wednesday announced it will add another beta to the Firefox 3.1 development schedule, a move that will push the browser's ship date to the sec...

Article | 26/02/2009 Safari 4 rivals Google Chrome in JavaScript race

Contrary to Apple's claims, the newest version of Safari is not the world's fastest browser, benchmark scores show. But it is dramatically faster than...

Article | 26/02/2009 Microsoft patches IE8 bugs in Windows 7

Microsoft has updated Windows 7 beta to fix an unknown number of reliability bugs in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), but the company stopped short of sayin...

Article | 26/02/2009 Microsoft spells out Windows 7 activation nags, limits

Microsoft will turn Windows 7's background picture black and put up persistent notices on the screen if users don't activate the new operating system,...

Article | 25/02/2009 Marvell hopes 'plug computers' will Web-enable hard drives

Can a computer get any smaller and cheaper than a netbook? Marvell Technology Group Ltd. thinks so.