Read all ‘Firefox 3′ posts in News Blog - CNET News

June 30th, 2008

Read all ‘Firefox 3′ posts in News Blog - CNET News
It will cost you north of the border. (Credit: Apple) If you think AT&T’s iPhone 3G service plans are expensive, just consider what Rogers is forcing on our Canadian friends. Friday, the carrier announced its service plans for the iPhone 3G, none of

MobileTechRoundup show #138, Doesn’t anyone else have a Nerd Club at - ZDNet Blogs
James, Kevin, and I spent a bit more time than planned talking about the upcoming iPhone 3G on MobileTechRoundup show #138 , but we eventually did move on to talk about lots more in the world of mobile tech. I talked about my experiences with

Namibia: Obama - Much Ado About Nothing, Or Not? - AllAfrica.com

June 23rd, 2008

Namibia: Obama - Much Ado About Nothing, Or Not? - AllAfrica.com
NEWS is finally out that Barack Obama is the sole candidate of the Democratic Party to contest the American presidency. The road has been a long and winding one, albeit with a relatively few pitfalls for the Afro-American senator. When nominations

Firefox 3 RC1 unleashed for feedback - Silicon.com
The first release candidate of Firefox 3 has been made available to developers, ahead of the browser’s scheduled full release in June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) features tweaks to the user interface across all operating systems - Windows

Linux/Open Source News - Yahoo News
InformationWeek - Two rack-mount products offered this week can apparently run Mac OS X Leopard Server as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Ubuntu Server, and CentOS. Dutch Launch Open-source Smart Card Software Project PC World - Fri Jun 20, 8

Fellowship of the ring - Boston Globe
Their journey out of the darkness - a 22-year championship famine marked by deaths (Len Bias and Reggie Lewis), dumb luck (missing out on Tim Duncan in the 1997 lottery), and managerial mediocrity (hello, Rick Pitino) - began in an Italian

Google spice brings out open source aroma - Itwire.com
It’s summer in the United States which means Google’s annual season of code is in swing. This event has run over the past three years and is by all measures a successful happening. That it even happens is phenomenal enough and this year there’s many

New Build OS Install Problem - Toms Hardware
Ok this is gonna be long so bear with me I recently purchased a new board, CPU and RAM for a long overdue upgrade. I installed all the components and the machine booted up fine, other than the dreaded dual boot. The problem I am having is a freeze

Most Viewed Technology News - Yahoo News
CANBERRA (Reuters) - When Ian Usher’s partner of 12 years left him broken-hearted, he decided the best way to move forward was to auction his whole life, in one job lot. Cable ads attacking Verizon confuse consumers AP - Sat Jun 21, 8:14 AM ET NEW

Mozilla Firefox 3 Released - mozillaZine
Mozilla Firefox 3 has been released. Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 46 different localisations, Firefox 3 is the most major Mozilla browser release since the launch of Firefox 2 in October 2006 and represents the culmination of over

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards - Silicon.com
Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably. Red Hat’s desktop team said in a

Security Fix Live - Washington Post
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs was online Friday, June 20 , at 11 a.m. ET to answer your questions about the latest computer security threats and offer ways to protect your personal information. A transcript follows. Brian Krebs: Good morning

Read all ‘Open source’ posts in Negative Approach - CNET News

June 18th, 2008

Read all ‘Open source’ posts in Negative Approach - CNET News
Considering that Microsoft has yet to be a real friend to open source I have to be at least a bit suspect of the intentions behind the sponsorship of the ongoing open source census . My guess? I think Microsoft wants access to the results both so it

Problems delay Firefox 3 launch - CNET News
Web site problems held up the launch of Firefox 3 on Tuesday. The Get Firefox site went down near the 10 a.m. PDT launch time. Mozilla, the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that oversees Firefox development, said it was having

IP traffic to ‘double’ every two years - ITnews
IPTV subscribers set to double every year Debian, Ubuntu flawed for two years UK broadband lines to double in three years Freescale touts two-way traffic TV remote PCs targeted by hackers every 39 seconds Web traffic volumes will almost double every

Parallels releases its Hypervisor — on the Mac - ZDNet Blogs
Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop

Major organic restaurant planned for - where else? - Berkeley - San Francisco Gate
(06-17) 12:27 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area has been at the forefront of organic cuisine, but an East Bay catering company is upping the ante with plans for an ambitious fully organic restaurant. It will be the centerpiece of the David Brower

Back to Boston - Boston Globe
LOS ANGELES — The Celtics were going back to Boston anyways. But now they’ve got at least one more game to play. Both the Celtics and Lakers were scheduled to fly back to the East Coast late this morning, arriving in Boston sometime this evening

Read all ‘open-source’ posts in The Daily Download - Download.com
There’s no doubt that the browser wars are back in full swing, with updates in the past week to Opera , Songbird , and a new Flock beta . The training wheels are finally off Firefox 3 , too. If you haven’t checked out the five beta versions and three

Read all ‘Open source’ posts in News Blog - CNET News

June 13th, 2008

Read all ‘Open source’ posts in News Blog - CNET News
Gears, Google’s project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. “Gears for Firefox 3, as of today, is available for all users,” said Aaron Boodman, a

High school senior, graduate co-direct year-end production - TriVallyCentral
DOVER - Every year a senior at Dover High School directs a senior production to wrap up the season for the Dover Drama Club. Dover High School graduate Jenna Carol and high school senior Jamie Kingston have teamed up to co-direct this year’s senior

Negative Approach - CNET News
Gordon Ramsay is one of my favorite celebrity chefs, and when I learned there was a video game of his semi-stupid reality game show Hell’s Kitchen I was very excited. Overall, I find the Hell’s Kitchen show to be a bit annoying but I love Ramsay’s

Siemens gets serious about open source - Tectonic
If you’re new here you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly email newsletter . Thanks for visiting! Siemens’ outsourcing unit is snapping up some of South Africa’s brightest open source minds as it readies to offer large-scale open

Ubuntu’s Jeremy Fox: for the love of vegetables - Aspen Times
ASPEN — Talk with Jeremy Fox about Ubuntu, the vegetarian restaurant in downtown Napa where he is chef and minority owner, and it takes awhile to get around to such topics as the environment and the welfare of animals. A long while. In fact, he

Marquette administrator provides Celtics’ motto - ESPN.com
MILWAUKEE — Doc Rivers first wanted to hear more about Marquette University’s student work-study program in South Africa, because he was thinking about taking his family there to visit. Then, Rivers wanted to find out more about the teachings of

Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition–New from No Starch Press: Complete - WebWire
San Francisco, CA—When it comes to the desktop Linux game, Ubuntu is the clear winner. But Linux is still Linux. Whether readers are moving from Windows or Mac OS to Linux, the transition isn’t always an easy one. It takes a bit of work, and it

Parallels Desktop 5608 adds tools for Linux - MacNN
Parallels Desktop Mac Build 5608 , the latest build of the virtualization environment for Mac OS X, has been released. This build adds support for guest Parallels Tools for Linux in the latest Linux distributions (including Ubuntu 8). It also

BitDefender: BitDefender Security for Linux Wins VB100 Award; Virus - TMCnet
BitDefender: BitDefender Security for Linux Wins VB100 Award; Virus Bulletin Comparative Review Conducted on Ubuntu Linux Server Edition Platform

Canonical touts app launcher for ‘netbooks’ - ZDNet Australia
The founder of the Ubuntu project has given details of a new application launcher for a version of the operating system designed to run on the new generation of small laptops, such as the Asus Eee PC. The launcher is for Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a pared

Enough is enough, say the angry 5 000 - Citizen.co.za

June 11th, 2008

Enough is enough, say the angry 5 000 - Citizen.co.za
JOHANNESBURG - Only about 5 000 turned out for the Million-Man March Against Crime to the Union Buildings – but they told the government loudly: “Enough is enough.” They handed a memorandum to Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour

Canonical wants Netbook partners to open drivers for Ubuntu - Ars Technica
We took our first look at components of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix last week shortly after it was announced at the Computex show in Taiwan. Canonical’s original announcement provided little insight into plans for subnotebooks based on the software and

An Ubuntu netbook? - Tectonic
If you’re new here you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly email newsletter . Thanks for visiting! Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has hinted at the likelihood of a netbook pre-loaded with Ubuntu Remix in the very near future. Ubuntu

Anti-crime rally draws 7 000 to say ‘enough is enough’ - Witness
Pretoria — Government needs to start paying attention to crime, comedian and organiser of the “million man march”, Desmond Dube, said yesterday. Dube was speaking at the anti-crime march held at the Union Buildings. A memorandum on behalf on

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