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• Article | 20/02/2011 Motorola Atrix 4G mightiest smartphone yet?

  The Motorola Xoom was the most advanced tablet that we got to try out at Mobile World Congress. Other tablets, including the HTC Flyer, certainly look...
• Article | 12/01/2011 For an old or slow PC, try Puppy Linux 5.2

  There's no doubt Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but there are myriad othe...
• Article | 8/01/2011 Motorola Atrix hints at a virtualized, cloud future

  Motorola announced the Atrix smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, and while many have been concentrating on its 4G connectivity and clever des...
• Article | 1/10/2010 5 things Linux does better than Mac OS X

  Were it not for Windows' long-standing installed base and overwhelming market dominance, it seems unlikely that anyone would argue seriously for the m...
• Article | 18/09/2010 Galaxy Tab will soar on Android's key strengths

  As the details of Samsung's Galaxy Tab are gradually revealed, it's becoming increasingly clear that many of the tablet's most desirable features deri...
• Article | 25/08/2010 Chrome patches show the power of open source--and Google

  Google's patching of vulnerabilities in its open source Chrome Web browser last week wasn't so much notable in itself; Microsoft, to be sure, is forev...
• Article | 14/08/2010 Mobile apps security: Apple iOS v. Google Android

  The Apple iOS, which runs on its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has a flaw in how it reads PDF documents that makes it easier to hack. This flaw is exp...
• Article | 5/08/2010 11 free Linux apps your business needs now

  Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources...
• Article | 3/08/2010 Is Linux really harder to use?

  Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare...
• Article | 30/07/2010 On strengths of Linux, Android will win mobile contest

  Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which mobile operating system is fairest of all? That's a common question, given the many contenders in the mobile arena-...
• Article | 28/07/2010 Jolicloud 1.0, a Linux distro in progress

  Jolicloud 1.0 is a new edition of Linux aimed at non-technical netbook users.
• Article | 30/06/2010 12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros

  One of the benefits of open source software that many people are most familiar with is that it's free to download. This means you can grab great appli...
• Article | 13/06/2010 Linux tablets, where are you?

  Apple has long had a history of being arrogant. But, more often than not, they've been able to back it up by the quality of their products.
• Article | 2/06/2010 Windows, Mac or Linux: It's not the OS, it's the user

  Who's got the safest operating system? Apple, Google, Microsoft? According to one security expert, what really matters is who's using the OS.
• Article | 4/03/2010 Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream

  Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux...