If a competitor doesn't act quickly, the wildly successful iPad will become the new Microsoft Office -- the high-priced standard we'll never be able to get rid of.
<b>Computerworld:</b> "Yes, it's true. After just more than 7-years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux and the companies that support it-IBM; Novell, and Red Hat--any real trouble."
Sending emails from Access is popular but so is creating appointments, tasks and contacts. The ability to read and process Outlook emails is also very useful, as is the ability to extract names and emails from the user's contact list. That's the topic covered in this and next month's articles.
As Microsoft makes the latest beta of its Windows Server AppFabric available, it's urging developers to begin building composite applications that span both local servers and services in the cloud.
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.
<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "One way to solve this problem is to use exposure blending. This technique involves taking several shots of the same scene or subject with different exposures and then fusing these shots into one perfectly exposed photo."
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>Kernel News: </b>"It can be hard for new users to figure out which Linux Distribuiton that they should use. Although Ubuntu Linux isn't the best distribution for everyone, in our opinion it is the best Linux Distribution for new users."
<b>Katonda:</b> "Microsoft Bing has many flaws, but this one seems to be the most outrageous one. If you try to search for OpenOffice on Bing, it will not show you the actual OpenOffice.org website but will show pages from random websites like OpenOffice.com or other non-OpenOffice.org websites."
<b>The Register:</b> "Firefox developers say they're close to plugging an information leakage hole that has plagued every major browser for more than a decade."
<b>Network World: </b>"Talend is an open source data integration company that is a poster child for successful open source business models. In just a few short years they have risen to be one of the up and coming stars in a 13b dollar market."
Everyone agrees networking testing is important, but when it comes to enhancing performance, Unified Communications services demand the most meticulous monitoring.
In the effort to secure a wireless network, it's often hard to tell the difference between Wi-Fi fact and fiction. We give five general wireless networking assumptions the truth test.
<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."
<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."