<b>Datamation:</b> "It shouldn't be so hard to get a price - my motto is that the harder it takes to find out pricing, the less motivated customers are going to be to buy it."
<b>BBC News:</b> "The "father of the personal computer" who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of 68."
<b>Stop:</b> "These are only a few of the many resources that you can use to understand how important DFD is for you, even if, personally, you don't care at all about computers. The rest of this page, instead, explains how even a job offer from one of the greatest enemies of Document Freedom, Microsoft, proves the same point."
<b>InfoWorld:</b> "Source code availability is a central factor in establishing trust in the open source community, as knowledge that the source is available can often allay fears about the future of a particular open source project or product. And yet, this trust can often be overstated."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "One of the features expected with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release is the Ubuntu One Music Store (UOMS). The UOMS is a mechanism by which Ubuntu users can purchase songs in the MP3 format, with some of the revenue going to support Canonical."
New study from PandaLabs pins the escalating severity of attacks carried out by relatively unskilled hackers on a thriving black market offering ready-made tools.
<b>IT Wire:</b> "For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."
Tapas Pal shows you how to encrypt your SQL Server database for a pre-existing, business critical web application using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a new full database encryption technique introduced in SQL Server 2008.
SeeWhy has launched Conversion Manager, an automated Web analytics service that can optimize an ecommerce retailer’s conversion rates by remarketing with e-mail and social media.
SeeWhy has launched Conversion Manager, an automated Web analytics service that can optimize an ecommerce retailer’s conversion rates by remarketing with e-mail and social media.
<b>The Open Road:</b> "If the future is cloud-based applications, we still have a long way to go to realize that vision. Ironically, we may actually be getting ever further away from it even as the cloud assumes central importance in the computing landscape."
You probably think $480 is a little steep for a netbook, and it is -- for one that doesn't have dual-core horsepower, a full-sized keyboard, and a 12- instead of 10-inch screen. We test MSI's netbook for people who don't like netbooks.
You probably think $480 is a little steep for a netbook, and it is -- for one that doesn't have dual-core horsepower, a full-sized keyboard, and a 12- instead of 10-inch screen. We test MSI's netbook for people who don't like netbooks.
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "Paul W. Frields, the Fedora Project leader, told me though that this release is much new user-friendly and that it's no longer just for experienced Linux users. Based on my early look at this Red Hat community Linux distribution, I agree."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice is the best cross-platform office productivity suite, but it misses a few popular features like a clipart gallery, Google Docs integration, PDF import, and more than basic templates. But they're out there if you know where to look, and Eric Geier shows the way."