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Verizon Becomes a Counter-Android Linux Convert

Verizon Snubs Google's Linux-based Android Initiative to Go With the LiMo Foundation's Mobile Linux Spec

Verizon Wireless to introduce Linux phones

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network.

Adobe lands Sun Java rich-client CTO

Sun Microsystems' desktop division CTO has defected to Adobe Systems. It's the latest installment of musical chairs between vendors jockeying for developers building rich internet applications, and highlights Sun's weaknesses in this already competitive field.

Easy CGI Now Offers Dedicated VPS Plans For Linux

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Why developers avoid Vista

In the litigious world we live in, deploying a unified communications platform in your enterprise could cause more headaches...

Silverlight gets put on Linux

In the litigious world we live in, deploying a unified communications platform in your enterprise could cause more headaches...

Survey: Developers Not Jumping on Vista Bandwagon

According to survey results released yesterday by Santa Cruz, Calif.-based research firm Evans Data, only eight percent of developers in North America are currently developing applications to run on Microsoft Vista, even though the operating system has been live now for 15 months.

5 The Big Board Goes Linux

Whitepaper: HP Integrated Citrix XenServer for HP ProLiant Servers. Download this whitepaper now and get a chance to receive FREE XenServer HP Select Edition Software. Sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel.

Novell Ships Moonlight 1.0

Novell and the Mono community announced the first public release of Moonlight, an implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight RIA (rich Internet application) platform for Linux.

Microsoft Bringing VBA Back for Mac

Microsoft has announced a service pack for Office 2008 for Mac and said it is bringing back Visual Basic for Applications for the next release of the Mac office suite.

Microsoft Rolls Out Patch for Jet Database Engine

In its monthly patch update, Microsoft releases a fix for a security hole in the Jet Database Engine that has been exploited by hackers.

In-Memory Database Heightens Linux-based Telco Billing/Credit System's Speed, Reliability

The database enhances service by enabling customers to access account features and balances instantly--and builds fault-tolerance into Lifetree's operating support system/business support system (OSS/BSS) through its high availability sub-system.

Quo vadis, smart phone: a serious question for SoC developers

Ron WilsonEDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams. How do we somehow herd architecture, IP, design and verification into a successful tape-out?

Linux Kernel 'ipip6_rcv()' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

rPath Appliance Platform Linux Service 1

Livescribe demos Java-fuelled smartpen

Jim Marggraff, chief executive of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper. The device also converts languages instantly, playing translations out loud through the embedded speaker or displaying the word on its LED screen.

JavaOne 2008: Uncommon Java Bugs

Any large Java source base can have insidious and subtle bugs. Every experienced Java programmer knows that finding and fixing these bugs can be difficult and costly. Fortunately, there are a large number of free open source Java tools available that can be used to find and fix defects early in the development life cycle. In this article, we’ll look at a few examples of specific uncommon[1] or unusual defects that can happen in code and see how different Java static analysis tools detect them.

Verizon picks Linux-but not Android-for mobile platform

Mobile carrier Verizon Wireless has joined the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation and has announced plans to adopt the open source software platform. Linux-based phones will be available from Verizon next year, alongside other devices that run competing proprietary operating systems.

Yahoo Search Monkey opens to all developers

Yahoo will make available to all developers its Search Monkey platform on Thursday, another step in its wide-ranging effort to open up its sites and services.

Developers explain why they're avoiding Vista

Fewer than 1 in 12 programmers is currently writing applications targeting Microsoft's Vista operating system

Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps?

This blog is managed/edited by Eric Everson, Founder of MyMobiSafe.com. The purpose of this blog is to discuss common threats and solutions that exist within the mobile community.

Nine Steps to Optimal GNU/Linux Desktop Setup

Configuring GNU/Linux does not end when the installation CD ejects, nor even after the post-install wizard runs. While installation leaves you with a basic system, it does not leave you with an optimized system in which all your preferences and requirements have been taken into account. Given an operating system's size and complexity, you should not expect it to -- and finishing the install program leaves you in much the same position on Windows as well.

The Big Board Goes Linux

The largest stock exchange on Earth is a Linux shop. NYSE Euronext has chosen Red Hat's Linux offerings to power the critical financial trading platform that services approximately $141 billion in daily trading volume. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time.

Cedega Game Emulation Software Now Available to Desktop Linux Users at CNR.com

SAN DIEGO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Linspire, Inc., developer of CNR.com, an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux software, and TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), a leading developer of portability and graphics technologies for the electronic entertainment industry, today announced the immediate availability of Cedega 6.0 for Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Linux Mint 4.0, Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 (32 bit) desktop Linux users. Available at an introductory price of $44.95 and for download and installation with one-click through CNR.com, Cedega brings the thrill of blockbuster video games to Linux users around the world (http://www.cnr.com/product/transgamingcedega).

Developers Target XP over Vista by Wide Margin

Just 8 percent of North American developers are writing Vista apps; about 49 percent develop for XP, survey says.

Yahoo Search Monkey opens to all developers

Yahoo has opened up its Search Monkey platform as part of its broader Open Strategy of opening up its platforms, sites, and services to outside developers