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Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open source Linux distribution.
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Copyleft and permissive terms de-mystified
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It may still be too late to save them
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Black Duck Software's 2011 'Rookies of the Year' list highlights up-and-coming newcomers.
Flexible, secure and scalable checkout software for any size of business
Modularisation and licensing moves draw fire from partners
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Testing the pre-beta version has produced interesting results
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IT can't forget to focus on employee experience
SaaS, social networking and key acquisitions mean enterprise software will never be the same again
Virtual vendor practises what they preach
Cloud or not, Citrix is continuing to provide hardware and software as it has for decades
Alleges Adscend Media abused network
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Vince Cable wants tech companies to advise UK businesses on digital strategy
27 January 2012, 18:10. Topics: Applications
Google's decision has led 8 US legislators to voice concerns in a letter to CEO Larry Page
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Nintendo's president says the Wii U will use touch-card technology in its wireless controllers, which also have touchscreens
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Canonical and Citrix highlight the pitfalls of proprietary cloud computing
27 January 2012, 12:45. Topics: Virtualisation
If HP can address a couple critical problems with the Envy 15, it will have a very desirable laptop on its hands.
Easy-to-use back-up program but with a few design oversights
Offers a shelf for temporarily stashing files and content
Superior glossy-photo output and performance somewhat justify the unit, but color graphics on plain paper don't measure up.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
Last year's Envy laptops were a bit of a disappointment. The design that wowed me in 2010 had grown stale by 2011; at that point, the rest of the world had caught up to and surpassed the Envy's design, while HP was content to update only the system's internal components. The new Envy 15 and 17, which HP released right at the end of 2011, finally feature a whole new design. For the most part, it's great, but a few nagging issues keep the system from being an easy recommendation. read more...
O&O AutoBackup (free in January 2012; $30 with a 30-day free trial starting in February 2012) is a generally easy-to-use backup program with one feature especially handy for frequent users of external drives. It will back up any data you choose, automatically, without user intervention, when you insert a removable drive you've defined as the repository for your backup. That's a neat trick, but the program is otherwise limited in ability, suffers a number of design oversights, and occasionally employs unexplained and possibly confusing language. read more...
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