In a move to broaden the use of its S60 on Symbian OS, Nokia announced Monday that its Qt cross-application framework will be ported to Symbian to make it easy for developers to create applications for multiple platforms.
Nokia noted that Qt's C++ development platform will facilitate developers' ability to create applications once and later deploy them on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Mac, Linux, and embedded Read the rest of this entry »

on Monday introduced its Active Storage XRAID, a 16 terabyte RAID system for Macintosh users that occupies three units of rack space. It costs US$14,999.
The Active Storage XRAID features 16 hard disk drive bays, with support for SATA II and 3Gb/s SAS hard drives. Using a Linux RAID kernel, the system provides dual 4 Gb/s Fibre host ports per RAID controller, and features redundant cooling and power supplies. It works with Apple Xsan and includes Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday revealed what it says is unprecedented success in its worldwide efforts to prevent people from pirating or counterfeiting its software.
The company outlined more than 400 law-enforcement efforts in 49 countries on six continents around the world to prevent the piracy or counterfeiting of its software products. Microsoft is calling Tuesday "Global Anti-Piracy Day" to laud the efforts.
Calling the efforts a "diversity of enforcement," Microsoft Read the rest of this entry »

"Primera is committed to make our best-selling
disc publishing systems available to users of all popular operating
systems," said Mark D. Strobel, Primera's
vice president of sales and marketing. "We
were the first in our industry to support Windows(R)
Vista(R). We recently
completed Mac(R)
drivers for virtually every product we make. We introduced our new,
best-in-class PTPublisher(TM) Read the rest of this entry »

Digital rights issues may not be first on the list of most college students’ concerns, but some would like to see more people asking about them — and Richard Stallman can give them a crash course on one viewpoint Tuesday evening.
Stallman, who physics junior Kristopher Kirkland said is one of computer science’s “grandfather figures,” will speak at Willey Hall about the Free Software Movement , which campaigns for freedom so users can Read the rest of this entry »

I get impatient waiting for my Vista PC to boot up. I could just leave the machine in sleep mode, but going long stretches without rebooting can cause problems of its own.
Instead of relying on sleep mode to get my workday started faster, I make it a habit to open Windows' list of startup apps on a regular basis to determine whether any rogue programs have slipped in, slowing my startups unnecessarily. It seems that every time I check the list, Read the rest of this entry »

In a move to broaden the use of its S60 on Symbian OS, Nokia announced Monday that its Qt cross-application framework will be ported to Symbian to make it easy for developers to create applications for multiple platforms.
Nokia noted that Qt's C++ development platform will facilitate developers' ability to create applications once and later deploy them on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Mac, Linux, and embedded Read the rest of this entry »

Being able to run Windows on a Mac has been a boon to Apple. In 2004, its market share in the operating system segment was slightly more than 3 percent. Today it is close to 8 percent and growing.
There are fewer worries when using a Mac. For the most part, Macs are almost completely virus- and spyware-free. It's not that Macs are actually more secure, it's just that with the viruses and programs that infiltrate computers to steal information and Read the rest of this entry »

Duplantis is building a system to control his farm's
irrigation system, covering five acres, for watering lawns, providing
drinking water for horses and other animals, and keeping a pond full. He
had written his own version of irrigation control software. To fully
test it will require running it through four seasons, so it is still "in
testing," but popping open the hood,
installing an 8GB CF card, and Read the rest of this entry »

Software, Inc., the leader in
embedded Linux
commercialization, today
announced that slides and videos are available online from technical
sessions presented at the recent Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers
Conference, held October 1-3 in San Francisco. Hundreds of engineers who
attended Vision 2008 learned how to work with new technologies, held
discussions with other developers and industry experts, Read the rest of this entry »