EBay has rolled out intelligent customer support on its eBay.com site. We tell you how the VirtuOz virtual agent works to resolve problems for ecommerce buyers and sellers.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "The goal of this article is to review the history and architecture of Linux as well as its present day developments to understand how Linux has become today's leading platform for cloud computing. We will start with a little history on Unix system development and then move to the Linux system itself."
Every so often, Lenovo leaves us reaching for superlatives. This time it's a 14.1-inch notebook that weighs less than four pounds, is under an inch thin, bristles with ingenious engineering and makes a $1,599 price seem downright reasonable.
<b>Good Gear Guide:</b> "Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China"
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge."
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The first public release of the BIND 10 open source DNS server is now out. But don't rush to update your servers just yet -- it's still years away from being ready for production use"
<b>Free Software Magazine: </b>"How do you get a flurry of images in your head into a concrete description of a film so that you can produce it? One important step is to create storyboards.This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies."
<b>Linux User & Developer: </b>"Besides being a HDD player and a full gigabit ethernet network streaming NAS box, it's also a media server (including Samba, NFS, UpnP, Bonjour and myiHome) and plays host to the MSP Portal, not to mention other third-party media server apps."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "The world of Linux applications continues to expand and improve, so check out Eric Geier's roundup of ten great Linux applications you might not have discovered yet: media players, Web page designer, video creation, run Linux on Windows, Windows apps on Linux, and more."
The next major release of Microsoft's instant messaging client will focus on improving social networking, high definition video capabilities, and better support for mobile devices, but a release date for the new Windows Live Messenger currently remains in question.
Multiple federal agencies have established a portal to solicit help from the private sector to devise new strategies and technologies to safeguard critical data networks.
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "Can Firefox's innovation and growth curve continue? In a comment attributed to former Firefox developer Blake Ross, apparently not."