Business customers will be able to get their hands on the new office suite on May 12th, while consumers will have to wait until the boxes are ready for store shelves.
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "Poor top management decisions led Linuxcare to lose first its way, and, then, years later, to quietly vanish. Now, one of its founders, Arthur F. Tyde III, has brought Linuxcare back from the grave and made it ready for the 21st century."
Global software piracy continued virtually unabated in 2009, costing software developers an estimated $51 billion, according to a survey by the Business Software Alliance.
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, one cyber gang known as Avalanche was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009.
GNOME and KDE have long had features that Windows lacked. In the last few years, both major free desktops have added features that show not only an interest in usability, but, at times, an effort to anticipate what users might actually want.
<b>LWN.net: </b>"Google unveiled something that many in the open source community had been expecting (and which the Free Software Foundation asked for in March): it made the VP8 video codec available to the public under a royalty-free, open source BSD-style license."
In this review we look at how to use CoreCommerce, an all-in-one online hosted ecommerce platform to build an online store that offers mobile and social commerce options.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Linux distributions don't simply appear on mirrors and BitTorrent networks fully formed. A great deal of work goes on behind the scenes before a release sees the light of day."
<b>Zona-M:</b> "When you start doing it though, you soon find out that the hardest, or at least lest documented task, is not how to send email, or how to block spam. It is how to make sure that the email you send is always accepted by other sites, that is how to find out if your email server looks like a spam source."
<b>Database Journal:</b> "Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL."
Security research McAfee warns that bogus messages instructing Facebook members to reset their login information could reach tens of millions of users.
Of the more than two dozen vulnerabilities Microsoft is addressing in April's Patch Tuesday release, the firm's monthly security update, five are deemed critical.