International group of privacy authorities blasts Google for the recent launch of Buzz and other privacy missteps, and urges the company to get serious.
International group of privacy authorities blasts Google for the recent launch of Buzz and other privacy missteps, and urges the company to get serious.
Canonical overhauls its Ubuntu Linux OS support services with the new Advantage solution, which offers legal indemnification, support and management services.
<b>LWN.net: </b>"Google unveiled something that many in the open source community had been expecting (and which the Free Software Foundation asked for in March): it made the VP8 video codec available to the public under a royalty-free, open source BSD-style license."
The Simplest Linux Netbook Interface (LXDE) offers a smaller, faster alternative to leading desktops like GNOME or KDE –- especially for netbooks.
GNOME and KDE have long had features that Windows lacked. In the last few years, both major free desktops have added features that show not only an interest in usability, but, at times, an effort to anticipate what users might actually want.
Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL.
Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL.
<b>LXer:</b> "Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet."
May's "Patch Tuesday" drop will be relatively painless, with only two "critical" patches to deal with. But why isn't last week's SharePoint flaw being addressed?
<b>Stop:</b> "One of the solutions Assinform proposes to fight the crisis is what you may call a "cash for software clunkers" program: state-financed discounts for all companies that replace with newer applications obsolete software that isn't working well anymore."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "There were only a few areas where the two Linux distributions actually performed differently with many of their core packages being similar, but one of the areas where the results were vastly different was with the OpenGL performance as Ubuntu uses Compiz by default..."
Whether it’s data warehousing, MDM or business intelligence, metadata is added to the project plan, is downgraded and eventually dropped from the project plan. The impacts of not including metadata and metadata management as part of the project have far-reaching and costly repercussions throughout the organization. Read on to learn more...
<b>Tim Anderson’s ITWriting:</b> "Google is campaigning to reassure us that its Chrome browser is, well, no worse at recording your every move on the web than any other browser."
Google's recent acquisition of Plink signals the company's growing interest in all things mobile. Is visual search a trend for ecommerce owners to watch?
Want to give your website a more broad appeal and increase readership? Who doesn't?! Your site could benefit by introducing some non-English material. Today's article will focus on various tools that you'll need to produce multilingual HTML documents.