Microsoft patents: Linux to become VFAT-free?
In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The Linux Foundation continues to maintain that Microsoft's VFAT patents are not valid. And of course... Read on »
Windows 7 in Europe: no upgrades, no IE, up to 2X the price
According to Computer World, things are not looking good for European fans of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has decided to remove Internet Explorer from versions of Windows 7 to be sold in Europe, the company is not offering an upgrade path from Vista. Also, although international exchange rates... Read on »
'Find My iPhone' used to catch a thief
iPhones are expensive, and some people want them without paying, and so they steal them. PCPro is reporting on one case in which the new "Find My iPhone" feature helped one man and his mates to track down his stolen iPhone and retrieve it from the thief who pinched it.... Read on »
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 40 pound deal: one week left
Some of you have no doubt heard of this offer before, but many out there may not have--or they may have thought... Read on »
Canonical licences 'satanists' selling Ubuntu-esque t-shirts
There are, of course, many Linux distros based on Ubuntu out there (Shift Linux was, for a time, one of them). Among... Read on »
RIAA awarded $80,000 for each file-shared song
In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (née Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged with sharing online. That comes out to $80,000 per track, considerably more than the $208.33... Read on »
Monopoly: Microsoft to pay Mississippi $100 million
The current European Union moves against Microsoft and Internet Explorer are, of course, nothing new. After an American federal judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft had illegally abused its monopoly by including the web browser as part of Windows, twenty-one states filed class-action lawsuits against the company on behalf of... Read on »
No more iPhone subsidies for Microsoft employees
Unmoved by independent market-analysis company Forrester Research's conclusion that "iPhone users are richer, younger, and perhaps even more productive at work than those who use competing smartphones," Microsoft has taken steps that have left some employees feeling more than a little perturbed. Times are tough, even in Redmond. Microsoft has... Read on »
YouTube videos now cached by browsers
In the past people with slow connections who tried to watch YouTube videos often had their patience tested. Playback often caught up with the buffer, leading to annoying pauses--and leading many to give up entirely on watching Youtube videos. Things have changed for the better, reports the Google Operating System... Read on »
Opera 'will reinvent the web' on June 16
A mysterious web page, called "Freedom" in its URL, has appeared on Opera's site making the rather bold claim that, "[o]n June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), [the Norwegian company] will reinvent the Web." This sounds like hyperbole, but it has got people all over the Internet talking. Some believe... Read on »
Microsoft preparing to release free anti-virus software
According to Reuters, Microsoft is getting set to release free anti-virus software for Windows to compete with the likes of Symantec and McAfee. The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is already being tested by Microsoft employees and a trial version will be made available... Read on »
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support... Read on »
Facebook kills anti-Muslim group
Facebook has disabled an anti-Islamic group called "I Hate Muslims in Oz" after the issue was brought to their attention by CNet's Chris Matyszczyk. Facebook's stance toward Holocaust-denying groups is more ambivalent. The company's terms of service prohibit content that is "hateful" or "threatening", and, according to Matyszczyk, Facebook does... Read on »
Google too 'small' to be a monopoly
The Washington Post is reporting that Google has been trying to paint itself as too small to be a monopoly in order to fend off increasing moves by US government agencies and others to take antitrust action against the Mountain View company. The Bush administration's relatively lax view of monopolies... Read on »
End of the road for Microsoft Money
According to CNet, Microsoft will soon be bringing to an end its Money line of personal finance management software. From Microsoft's Money FAQ, the products affected include Microsoft Money Essentials, Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe, Microsoft Money Plus Premium and Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business. For Microsoft Money Essentials, online... Read on »
Facebook vanity URL gold rush, coming soon
If you have a Facebook account and are tired of having to tell all your friends and strangers you meet on the street to visit you at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=847O63782 or whatever, things are about to change. At 12:01 am Eastern Standard Time this coming Saturday, 13 June (5:01 am in the... Read on »
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