Microsoft continues to support its aging Windows Mobile phone operating system even as the company hopes to take the market by storm with Windows Mobile 7 which isn't ready yet.
A new World Cup-themed malware campaign is incorporating a two-pronged strategy to target and infect large Brazilian finance, chemical and manufacturing firms.
The task of keeping up with database security can sometimes be monumental! A major challenge when it comes to administering authorities and privileges is how to approach this puzzle in a sensible, time-saving, 'security robust' manner. There is no need for concern; we have a hint or two that will help solve this puzzler.
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "Frank stepped out of the dark, moonless night of the Nevada desert and into the bright light of the bar, restaurant and motel that was the Little A'Le'Inn."
<b>Sourceforge:</b> "Swedish student Thomas Eriksson says a lot of advanced computer usage is still best done from the terminal. Given that, he’s developed Bashish to provide a more useful and beautiful terminal environment."
Need specialized small business software but worried it won't work with your QuickBooks, Salesforce or other business platform? Laurie McCabe explains the benefits of app stores.
Tip of the Trade: If you've ever felt the need to scribble notes on your PDFs without bringing dead trees into the equation, consider the open-source software, Okular, a KDE document reader that can read multiple document formats and allows the user to annotate files as she reads.
<b>Mark Shuttleworth:</b> "One of the driving mantras for us is “less is more”. I want us to “clean up, simplify, streamline, focus” the user experience work that we lead."
Last month we discussed how to get data from Microsoft Access into Outlook objects, such as in the creation of new appointments, tasks, contacts and emails. This month we perform the reverse operation: get data out of Outlook into Microsoft Access.
<b>DaniWeb:</b> "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in the world of software patents, a reliable source sent me this response from Steve Jobs about a patent pool that's forming and aiming to nail the open source codecs projects."
<b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "I got a good illustration yesterday of how easy things can be on Linux, especially compared with kicking a dead whale down the beach (using Windows)."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says."
<b>Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards:</b> "Recently at OpenOffice.org we have decided to give more highlight to our many native-language communities, who are in charge not just of localization, but also QA, users support, documentation translation and marketing."
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on OpenSolaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions, imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on OpenSolaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions, imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
CSS 3 is well on its way and promises some amazing features, including scrollable divs. There are several implementations of custom scrollbars, but the following implementation works across all popular browsers and supports scrolling with the mouse wheel.
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "The Linux kernel includes a variety of APIs intended to help developers build simpler and more efficient driver and kernel applications. Two of the more common APIs that can be used for work deferral are the list management and timer APIs."
<b>eSecurity Planet:</b> "In a bid to respond to a critical security vulnerability, Mozilla has released a new version of its open source Firefox Web browser ahead of schedule."
<b>VoIP Planet:</b> "The Ubuntu Linux distribution isn't the only open source project with a long-term-support release on the horizon. The Asterisk open source VoIP PBX (define) project is moving ahead with its own long-term support (LTS) plans with its 1.8 release."