<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>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>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."
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.
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "Ever so often, I look around for rather random add-ons that make my desktop experience more pleasant or occasionally even serve a meaningful purpose. They range from full applications to very basic widgets. In no particular order, here are a few that I have recently encountered and are worth mentioning."
<b>Softpedia:</b> "Nvidia announced a few days ago, on its forum, a new version of its proprietary driver for the Nvidia graphics cards. Nvidia 195.36.24 adds support for new GPUs, and fixes a few issues. But the most important thing is that Nvidia 195.36.24 has support for X Server 1.8."
<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."
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.
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>TuxRadar:</b> "The main idea of this test was to see how well these distros would run in a restrained environment. To this end, they were tested, where possible, on an ancient Compaq laptop with 256MB RAM, Vesa graphics, a 4GB hard drive and a 200MHz Pentium processor."
Unquestionably, the most effective tool for a C++ programmer's productivity is the Standard library's rich collection of algorithms. In 2008, about 20 new algorithms were voted into the C++0x draft standard. These new algorithms let you among the rest copy n elements intuitively, perform set theory operations, and handle partitions conveniently. Find out how to use these algorithms to make your code more efficient and intuitive.