The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water. Where is Microsoft in the booming mobile market?
<b>Around the Web:</b> "After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration setting."
<b>Wired: </b>"TechRestore, an electronics repair shop, has taken apart the Incredible and then it put all back together. What's fascinating to watch in the video is how small and compact the components are and how well they pack into the circuit board."
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Metadata performance is perhaps the most neglected facet of storage performance. In previous articles we’ve looked into how best to improve metadata performance without too much luck. Could that be a function of the benchmark? Hmmm..."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "One thing I have noticed on just about all windows installed computers outside of my strict control is that they are full of viruses, spyware and there are more programs installed than they know what to do with."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "t has been said many times that if only the Linux community were to band together and start rooting for the same team so to speak, then Linux could easily surpass other proprietary operating systems. "
<b>CNet:</b> "IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets that are easier to use for people who have disabilities or aren't fully literate."
This article is an overview of the changes to the C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2010 including lambda expressions, rvalue references, auto, decltype and static_assert.
<b>eWeek:</b> "Microsoft has released enhancements to the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that the company contributed to the Linux community in 2009."
As enterprises begin to understand and exploit the business value of social networking applications, they are increasingly relying on a cloud computing model to make it work.
Network security isn't easy, but there are plenty of ways to maximize the return you get on your efforts. Here are fifteen ways to gain a lot more security for less effort than you might expect.
<b>IT Wire:</b> "The new IPFire distribution seeks to take security to the highest level while also making things a breeze for the less experienced to set up."
<b>Click:</b> "I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. I needed to get the laptop back into usable shape, and I did that by installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS beta 2."
<b>Tech Republic:</b> "I recently read a blog posting that denounced the use of sudo as insecure because of the following (briefly summed up and paraphrased) reasons:"
Your small business software toolbox should include at last one graphics software app. Here’s what you need to know to pick the right graphics package -- plus a selection of software for every budget.
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "A dry spell, whether it's a true lack of rain or more metaphorically, a slowdown in business, can be a reason for concern. We've pretty much exhausted our computer stock and there hasn't been much to do lately for The HeliOS Project."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Trademarks and free software can make a volatile mix. It is understandable that a project would want to ensure that code shipping under its name is "the real McCoy", but modifying the source and distributing the result is a hallmark of free software."
<b>Information Week:</b> "Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux on why he thinks Ubuntu will succeed on the desktop, where other equally famed competitors have failed "
As the transition from Yahoo's advertising system to Microsoft's adCenter approaches, users of Yahoo's tools wonder aloud whether key features they like will make the transition, too.