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Linus says Linux is getting “Bloated and Huge”

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:40

At LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Linus Torvalds said that Linux is getting bloated and with no plan in sight to change that. Moderator James Bottomley cited an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, which showed that Linux...

Netflix Prize: first million to Bellkor Pragmatic Chaos, second million up for grabs

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:15

After nearly three years, Netflix announced the winner to its Netflix Prize yesterday. The million dollar prize goes to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, a team of seven engineers, statisticians and researchers from Austria, Canada, Israel and the U.S. More than 51,000...

Apple open sources Grand Central Dispatch – libdispatch

Friday, September 11, 2009 23:54

Apple has open sourced Grand Central Dispatch, a new technology added in MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that  for developers to take make effective use of multi-core parallelism. It is also called libdispatch, and the source code is...

Microsoft confirm Windows 7 launch date

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 14:16

As we all knew that Windows 7 was originally expected to come our doorsteps in January 2010, but this had changed recently to three months earlier, to the 23rd October. But the big news today is Microsoft officially announcing that...

Asus Express Gate Review

Asus Express Gate Review

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:00

Welcome. Today I’ll be looking at a fantastic bit of software, this software is a mini operating system that is present on most of Asus’s newer motherboards. The operating system itself is Linux based. Bout 256Mb big I believe. And is...

Songbird left iTunes in the lurch?

Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:11

An Open-source player version of iTunes has been reigning over the web at present and it’s the new eye candy of music players.  Great reviews for the new program are flooding technology sites.  Will this new Songbird really outreign the...

Adobe bug recognised over seven months ago

Adobe bug recognised over seven months ago

Saturday, July 25, 2009 18:17

Adobe confirmed that the software pioneers were well informed of “potential vulnerabilities” influencing Adobe Reader, Acrobat 9.1.2 and Adobe Flash Player 9 as well as 10. Thus, advising users to make sure their systems are completely secure since hackers are...

Intel: We created Chrome OS with Google

Intel: We created Chrome OS with Google

Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:06

Chip makers Intel, have announced publicly that they have been participating in the development of Chrome OS. With the highly anticipated release of Google’s own operating system, many of us considered that Google couldn’t launch an operating on their own. Thus,...

Google announces Chrome OS

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:05

We were all speculating about this, but finally, in a surprise announcement this morning on July 8th, Google said that it was planning to release a new open source operating system, based on the Chrome browser. Interviewed by the New York...

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Lenovo to provide users with free Windows updates

Lenovo to provide users with free Windows updates

Monday, June 29, 2009 11:04

HP was the first PC service to offer a free upgrade to Windows 7 and now has been joined by fellow company Lenovo. Lenovo have now decided to provide users with a free Windows 7 upgrade with their PC’s and Laptops....

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