Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz is leaving the company to start his own business with Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein.
Moskowitz helped design the popular social networking site. Now he plans to launch a software startup, according to reports on the Valleywag.com Web site. The Silicon Valley publication said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg notified Facebook employees in an e-mail.
Rosenstein had given high praise to the social networking site Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft did not claim its own patents in the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel is, after all, a UNIX work-alike, whereas the NT kernel is a VMS work-alike.
Samba is OK. Samba is a free software implementation of the SMB protocol, which is an IBM invention.
Wine is more problematic, and in some respects it indeed parallels Mono.
I personally don't run Wine either. I'd rather find a native Linux application that does a similar job to any given Read the rest of this entry »

-- Create, view, and edit text-based PDF files directly from the print
menu of Microsoft Windows software applications.
-- Use optical character recognition to convert scanned images into
editable text files, avoiding time spent having to re-type documents.
-- Combine scanned document images and e-faxes with e-mail, spreadsheets,
word processing files, presentations and more into a single, easy-to-manage
and -distribute PDF Read the rest of this entry »

Associated Press
10.06.08,
1:41 PM ET
Shares of major software companies sank sharply Monday amid a widespread market decline, fueled by investors' fears that Washington's $700 billion bailout package could take a while to free up frozen credit markets.
Software makers remained relatively unharmed for months as the subprime mortgage crisis seeped into the financial sector, but as short-term credit businesses need for daily operations Read the rest of this entry »

F5 is the world leader in Application Delivery Networking. We provide solutions that make sure business applications are always secure, fast, and available. Over 16,000 organizations worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running.
Are valued and empowered, collaborative and team oriented, innovative in their approach and passionate about their work. They are reliable, trustworthy and open with a high level of integrity. They value diversity, Read the rest of this entry »

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Some time ago I had a long talk with an IBM’er about social networking.
He said the first key to bringing social networking to business was a simple directory.
We should all have our own page somewhere, whether as individuals, as members of a hierarchy, or as business entities. We need to be found, and have our expertise known. Then we need to use that directory Read the rest of this entry »

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Over at JKOnTheRun, James Kendrick
Andy Tung, Director of US Sales for MSI … told Laptop that their experience shows that netbooks with Linux are returned four times more often than those with Windows XP.  This would indicate what others have already noted, many consumers pick up the cheaper systems and then realize that the Linux system is not what they are used to so they return it.
And this Read the rest of this entry »

When you start your Linux system, at boot time, the process may get terminated and you might come across with the following error message:
After this error message, the system does not boot and none of your data can be accessed from it.
This error message usually occurs if modprobe, rmmod, or insmod files are not able to find a module. Due to this, the system can not access the required system files to boot and thus shows the error message.
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October 6th, 2008
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Over at JKOnTheRun, James Kendrick
Andy Tung, Director of US Sales for MSI … told Laptop that their experience shows that netbooks with Linux are returned four times more often than those with Windows XP.  This would indicate what others have already noted, many consumers pick up the cheaper systems and then realize that the Linux system is not what they are used to so they return it.
And this Read the rest of this entry »

. But that hasn’t stopped him from talking up the integration of Zune software into a range of additional gadgets.
with CIO magazine, Ballmer said: “Zune software will also be ported to and be more important not just with the hardware but on the PC, on Windows Mobile devices, etc.”
Given Ballmer’s earlier comments, it’s unlikely that he’s hinting at Microsoft making a mobile phone. Although there’s nothing stopping the software behemoth Read the rest of this entry »