Software
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Windows 7 seeing ‘fantastic’ sales in Japan, says Ballmer
Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft’s newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO...
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Mozilla plans major Firefox interface overhaul
Mozilla plans to overhaul the look and feel of Firefox for Windows, a redesign that will resemble Google’s Chrome in several key...
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Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture
Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing...
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Mac Internet share up despite Windows 7 launch
Preliminary data released overnight by Net Applications, shows Mac OS X’s online share grew by 2.73 per cent in October, from 5.12...
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Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser
Google upgraded the beta version of its Chrome browser, adding integrated bookmark synchronization and boasting of a 30% speed improvement over the...
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Microsoft re-patches last month’s critical IE update
Microsoft re-patched Internet Explorer, the third time it’s been forced to repair one of the updates from its largest-ever bug fix, which...
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Google’s Chrome browser share growth trumps Firefox’s
Google’s Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla’s Firefox in October, the fourth time...
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Migrate to Windows 7– Migrating your bookmarks
I’d argue that the first thing a user wants upon migrating to a new PC–or, in this case, a new operating system...
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Mozilla unveils first Firefox 3.6 beta
Mozilla late last week released the first beta of Firefox 3.6, a minor upgrade slated to wrap up later this year. Delayed...
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Microsoft discontinues accounting software
Microsoft is spiking its Office Accounting software and will stop distributing the products as of Nov. 16, according to a posting on...
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Google Chrome: The fast browser with slow adoption
The launch of Google’s Chrome browser a little over a year ago brought with it a mountain of hype and expectations, with...
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With eye on Oracle and MySQL, Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB
Red Hat has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried...
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VMware ships Workstation for virtualizing Windows 7
VMware has added support for Windows 7 and expanded the ability to handle virtual processors in Workstation 7, the new version of...
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Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 ‘excellent release’
Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, not...
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Asterisk teams with IBM for small business VoIP
Small businesses can buy open source IP PBX Asterisk software as an add-on to IBM’s Smart Cube office-in-a-box package. Digium, which sells...