Canonical overhauls its Ubuntu Linux OS support services with the new Advantage solution, which offers legal indemnification, support and management services.
Latest report from M86 Security finds that so-called exploit kits are becoming more common and affordable for hackers looking to jumpstart their malware activities.
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "MicroOLAP Database Designer for PostgreSQL is an easy CASE tool with intuitive graphical interface allowing you to build a clear and effective database structure visually, see the complete picture (diagram) representing all the tables, references between them, views, stored procedures and other objects"
<b>Packt:</b> "This article by Christer Edwards, outlines how to install Ubuntu using the network installer. This utility allows you to install directly over the network, instead of using a CD or DVD image. It does require a small CD boot image, but beyond that it is entirely network dependent."
Laurie McCabe offers up strategies and tips and resources — suitable for any small business — that are good for the environment and good for the bottom line, too.
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "In this article, learn how to detect which capabilities are present and how to take advantage of those features in your application. Explore powerful HTML 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation, embedded databases, and embedded video."
<b>Apache Infrastructure Team:</b> "If you are a user of the Apache hosted JIRA, Bugzilla, or Confluence, a hashed copy of your password has been compromised."
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, one cyber gang known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009.
The offsite data storage service company, formerly known as Data Deposit Box, has combined remote access to the desktop with its continuous backup service in a new cloud-based offering for SMBs called KineticD.
Energy savings -- with an on-screen cost meter to show exactly how much savings -- are just part of the appeal of NEC's latest LED-backlit 22-inch monitor. We put the stylish desktop display to the test.
<b>Netstat --vat:</b> "The release was pushed back by a week to fix a number of blocker bugs, among them is an interesting one that many users might simply consider to be just a papercut nuisance."
<b>Techworld</b> "The Horde open source messaging and groupware project is gearing up for the first major release of its application suite and development environment in years with version 4, which is due to arrive in mid-2010."
<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..."
<b>Tech Drive-in:</b> "VLC is among the most sought after media player application in Ubuntu and we had already featured VLC Media Player in our post describing Top 5 must have multimedia applications for Ubuntu."