Although it was designed primarily as a consumer product, the iPad is finding its way into the workforce. We look at five different business scenarios where the iPad could earn its keep.
Lenovo's all-in-one desktop shakes up the nettop segment, bundling Intel's Atom CPU and other netbook hardware (plus a DVD±RW burner) into a spiffy 20-inch screen.
The HP EliteBook 8440w notebook isn't cheap, but then it claims to offer the equivalent of a workstation in a portable package. Does it live up to its claim?
<b>IT World: </b>"This debate arouses vehement opinions, but according to one IT consultant who spends a lot of time with both Windows and Linux, it's a matter of arguing which server OS is the most appropriate in the context of the job that needs to be done."
The most important mobile marketing tool you can have is an ecommerce site that's optimized for mobile devices. Why risk losing out on potentially thousands of mobile customers and sales?
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "The users and purchasers of microsoft systems are secure in themselves that they have a company behind them to point the bone at when things go wrong."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Marketing isn't the first word that one associates with the Linux community, but it is a necessary activity for those who wish to bring new users into the fold (and perhaps make a buck at the same time)."
It may be 'tax' day for most Americans but, for some developers, April 15 is the day that Microsoft releases version 4 of its Silverlight media streaming technology.
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Trouble is, the resulting file has hard new-line characters after every line, and a double new-line between paragraphs. I could cursor to the end of each line, delete it, and type in a space, but my inner sloth told me there had to be a better way."
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server."
<b>Softpedia:</b> "This minimalistic operating system is created for advanced users who want to build a customized installation of Sabayon Linux. It can also be used for USB installations!"
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This tutorial shows how you can set up a PCLinuxOS 2010 desktop (with KDE) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops."
<b>Developer.com:</b> "...the trend is only increasing, though new research has found that over the course of the last year, there has been a shift in which mobile platform has the most open source development activity."