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Intel showed off its latest WiMax Connection 2300 chipset in Hong Kong this week, aimed at extending both the range and capacity of 802.11 or WiFi wireless networks The completion of its WiMax baseband chip -- coupled with a previously announced, multiband WiMax/WiFi radio on a singlechip -- indicates that "Intel continues to drive innovation in mo...
With reported fiscal fourth quarter 2006 revenue of US$245 million,Novell missed Wall Street estimates and expectations this week, causing the software and services company stock price to slip more than 9 percent Novell, which went through major leadership changes this year, also indicated that it would absorb restructuring charges next year, furth...
The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC), an effort spearheaded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte aimed at delivering functional, educational laptop computers to children in developing nations, is looking to wealthier nations to buy its computers for those in need The project, which looks to rely on inexpensive yet capable hardware, and free and ...
IBM announced this week that 372 new Linux on Power applications were released in 2006, yielding a total of 2,500 tested Linux-based solutions available for the Power processor platform In addition, Big Blue announced the latest Linux on Power application, the Sybase Unwired Accelerator, which offers mobile access to corporate data stored in ERP sy...
Despite its increasing use on enterprise servers and on company desktops, the Linux OS is perhaps moving fastest in the mobile space There are challenges, though, as well as many possibledirections for mobile Linux, raising the prospect of fragmentation....
Novell unveiled its new Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) this week, completing a shift of Novell workgroup solutions, particularly NetWare, over to the Suse Linux platform Highlighting support from backup andsecurity vendors includingCA,Symantec andMcAfee, OES 2 is set to ship in 2007 and will feature enhancements to virtualization, storage and fil...
Novell has pulled out of theopen source Hula Project, a community development effort that it kicked off early last year to compete with e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solutions such asMicrosoft's Exchange andIBM's Domino servers Novell encouraged continued development of the Hula server, but its future is uncertain, at best, without the comp...
Opera Software is singing a new tune with its updated Mini 3.0 browser, released on Tuesday. It brings photo sharing and social networking functionality to the Norwegian company's free mobile phone mini browser Despite its struggles in the desktop Web-browser market, Opera has succeeded with its mobile browser, which it says is used by 8 million pe...
The French parliament this week announced that its 1,000-plus desktops will be running Linux andopen source applications beginning in June 2007, ending the governmental body's reliance on Microsoft Windows Although the adoption of Linux and other open source software -- as well asopen standards such as the open document format (ODF) -- is gaining m...
Microsoft andNovell, participants in a recent historic Windows-Linux technology- and patent-sharing pact, are having some differences of opinion over the existence of Microsoft technology in the Linux operating system Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fired up Linux and open source supporters by claiming the deal with Novell reflects the inclusion of Mic...
Red Hat-owned JBoss is releasing two technologies aimed at broadening the open source application server and middleware market offerings, to serve as a more complete stack of open source software at the heart of a services oriented architecture (SOA) Red Hat touted capabilities and features in both its new JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its...
Cornell University researchers have created a robot capable of self-awareness, learning and adapting -- all keys to the intelligence and technology needed for robots to function in adverse and changing environments The Cornell researchers, who published their findings in the Nov. 17, 2006, issue of Science, said their robot did not rely onpredeterm...
Red Hat says it is ready to unveil its biggest release in two years. Developers and users of the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have packed on more than 1,000 new components for stability, security and virtualization, among other features, according to the company The unveiling of RHEL 5 Beta 2 -- a compilation of community andcustomer...
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has explained how the batteries of portable electronic devices could be wirelessly -- and safely -- recharged Such a technological feat could be accomplished by matching the source andreceiver in frequency, similar to radio, MIT Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic said at a physics conference in San...
Mozilla claims that the anti-phishingmeasures in its Firefox Web browser are superior to those of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), based on a report released Wednesday by software testing companySmartWare While IE owns around 80 percent of the browser market, it also draws the majority of Internet attacks, including those known as "phishing" -- ...
Well before search titan Google released its tool to help developers scour the Web for code and connected information, Koders was serving up software search results, starting with open source software and now spreading out to include closed code repositories as well Since launching its first beta in 2004, Koders has expanded its search to include m...
Intel this week began selling quad-core Xeon and Core2 Extreme chips, making good on its promise to deliver four-core computer processors ahead of rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Market uptake of the new chips may be limited to customers who need improved performance over that of dual-core processing, which is still relatively new. No...
Despite a somewhat clumsy history with the free and open source software community, Sun Microsystems Monday opened Java to software developers under the general public license (GPL) The long-rumored move was a departure from the company's expected plan -- to release Java under the same license that governs its OpenSolaris operating system, the comm...
The distaste and distrust of the Microsoft-Novell partnership announced last week among some free and open source software supporters has grown to include allegations the deal may violate the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs Novell's Suse Linux operating system The free and open source software (FOSS) community's largest legal figure...
Mozilla Foundation this week released patches for its Firefox browser, its Thunderbird e-mail client, and its SeaMonkey Internet application suite, responding to an increase in security issues accompanying the open source software's surging popularity Firefox has topped the 15 percent mark in browser market share. That's still far behind Microsoft...
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