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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 | 12/01/2011 Patch Tuesday defined by the flaws that aren't fixed
Microsoft is easing in to 2011 with a light Patch Tuesday for January. There are only two security bulletins this month, and only one of those two is ...
Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target
Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
Article | 11/01/2011 10 new open source projects to watch
One of the most exciting things about open-source software is the sheer diversity of projects that are always under way. Aiming to recognize some of t...
Article | 9/01/2011 Analysis: Why I'm not sold on mobile video chat
Prior to CES, there were only a handful of phones with front-facing cameras: the iPhone 4, the EVO 4G and the T-Mobile myTouch 4G to name a few. This ...
Article | 5/01/2011 Asus unveils three tablets and a slate
At CES 2011 today, Asus announced three new Android tablets and a Windows 7 based slate PC. The tablets, all Android-based, go by the moniker "Eee Pad...
Article | 4/01/2011 Why Apple’s iPhone Will 'Drown in a Sea of Androids'
Google's Android mobile platform may still follow Apple's iPhone in the smartphone race, according to fresh Nielsen data released Monday, but that adv...
Article | 22/12/2010 8pen: Android keyboard app tries something new
There are apps that I don't want to like, but do. Then there are apps I do want to like, but don't. The 8pen keyboard, unfortunately, belongs in this...
Article | 14/12/2010 Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft
For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually beca...
Article | 11/12/2010 In depth: Google's Cr-48 Chrome notebook
My holiday gift giving season started early Thursday morning when the UPS guy pounded on my door and handed me a package. Inside was a notebook -- Goo...
Article | 11/11/2010 Call of Duty Black Ops gets slammed across the web by gamers
For all the launch fanfare, it sounds like Call of Duty Black Ops may be suffering from Fallout New Vegas syndrome. Scan the PC version's official for...
Article | 11/11/2010 12 amazing productivity boosters
It's official: I can no longer think of a single person I know (unless, of course, you count my two-year-old) who doesn't have more work on their to-d...
Article | 12/11/2010 Massive Mac OS X update shatters illusion of security
Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities ...
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 | 21/09/2010 Why Google Docs will be a 'killer app' for tablets
Google on Monday announced that it will introduce versions of Google Docs for tablets running both the Android and Apple iOS4 mobile operating systems...