<b>Datamation:</b> "While I firmly believe that Android will challenge in the enterprise soon, it's just not happening now. The security and configuration features that IT departments demand simply aren't ready yet."
The best smartphone for the enterprise, a category long dominated by Blackberry, now faces challenges by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.
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."
An appellate court upheld a lower court's finding that eBay did not engage in trademark infringement by providing a marketplace for sellers to auction off counterfeit Tiffany Co. jewelry.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Which Linux distro should I use? It's one of the most common questions for new and aspiring Linux users. There's so many to choose from, how can you pick the right one? Let's see if we can help clear it up a little and help you choose between all the other major distros."
<b>ZDNet AU:</b> "Take a good hard look at your screen and ask yourself if it is possible to accidentally close an application while reaching for the File menu. In most cases the answer is a clear no, but for users of Ubuntu, it has become a very real and dangerous use case."
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 latest Web statistics for search engines show both Bing and Yahoo gaining ground while Google slips. But what is it about the numbers that undercuts those conclusions?
<b>Phoronix:</b> "to test the performance claims of Arch versus others, we have compared the performance of the newest Arch 2010.05 media against Ubuntu Linux."
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "I tried upgrading the whole distro 2 times before and failed miserably. It took a heck lot of time and post installation issues were simply overwhelming."
<b>The H Open:</b> "But Linux and free software come in many different flavours, and the adventurous user goes in search of wider options, other distributions and new desktops."
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday payload included 10 bulletins, three of them characterized as "critical," that promise to keep enterprise IT department's busier than usual this month.
<b>IT World:</b> "In the embedded space, there's been a lot of talk about whether Android is fragmented, and if that fragmentation will ultimately hurt Android, because developers won't know what version to code for and users won't know which one to use."
<b>Distrowatch Weekly:</b> "Linux, with its flexibility, can be used in many different niches. Take, for example, Asturix. The Asturix project is an attempt to make a better operating system both for the world in general, and Spanish speakers in particular."
<b>Database Journal:</b> "This post contains common different methods of functional partitioning and common considerations for database setup and capacity."