Armadillo Aerospace has won $350,000 by completing the first stage of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge to improve people's ability to jet around the moon.
A family member's recent hard drive crash reinforced the importance of backing up your music library. But if you didn't, there are some simple utilities to help you get songs from your iPod back to your PC.
Executives from the major media companies discuss the future of online video Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES — Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed,
said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would manage the relationship between software inside the computer and on the Web, where data and services are becoming increasingly centralized.
The company needs a new kind of operating system for a new computing world populated not by a single Read the rest of this entry »
The CodeWeavers Lame Duck Presidential Challenge will make its software products downloadable for free to all Americans for 24 hours at www.CodeWeavers.com if President Bush accomplishes at least one of the following goals:
CodeWeavers has selected an initial platform of five Lame Duck Goals. All of these represent what we think should be attainable, positive goals for the United States.
1. Reduce the Price of Gas: Gas costs about $3.79 a gallon Read the rest of this entry »
has not altered the companys commitment to offer operating system choice for its new server products launched this week.
ThinkServer line of Intel-based tower and rack-mounted servers start at $1365 and are available from October 28 through resellers.
All servers can be pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, Lenovos preferred Linux operating system provider. Read the rest of this entry »
President Bush gets a lot of grief over the economic woes that have occurred under his watch, but now people can thank him for something spiffy: Free software. It comes courtesy of the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge.
In July, St. Paul software developer CodeWeavers came up with the gimmick to make its products available free for a day if any one of five positive (but seemingly unlikely at the time) things happened during Bush's Read the rest of this entry »
October 27, 2008
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To celebrate low gas prices in the Twin Cities area, CodeWeavers have announced that every visitor to their site Tuesday October 28 (we presume CST) will be able to obtain a copy of one of their CrossOver software packages free.
The story behind the offer is rather convoluted, so this from their media release (it’s too hard to paraphrase)
The catastrophic cratering of the global economy, falling gas prices and President Read the rest of this entry »
-- Ensure that services they identify, design and build using .NET
Framework and WCF are relevant to and consumable by applications they
design, build and deploy using other platforms like SAP and IBM.
-- Make services they expose from applications running on .NET Framework
and WCF visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced
and audited across other platforms; and make services they design and build Read the rest of this entry »
The most fundamental change to the way people interact with PCs since the advent of the Internet may be occurring. The traditional PC is giving way to a new type of machine which has functions somewhere between a smartphone and an Internet appliance. Now it’s up to Microsoft to respond to the altered landscape or perhaps turn into a less relevant software maker.
published Sunday, Matt Richtel and I covered one of the big drivers behind this change Read the rest of this entry »
WINDHOEK, Namibia -- Microsoft Corp. sees sub-Saharan Africa, among the poorest places on earth, as one of the last great computing frontiers. It wants to make its Windows software a fixture there.
To that end, it has established a presence in 13 countries, donated Windows for thousands of school computers, and funded programs for entrepreneurs and the young. It also has used aggressive business tactics, some aimed at its biggest threat in the region: Read the rest of this entry »
will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday,
said Monday, but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track.
in the company's alphabetically ascending naming convention, is the latest installment of Linux for desktop computers and servers in the company's six-month release cycle. Among the new features are support for 3G wireless modems, the ability to set up an encrypted and password-protected private directory, Read the rest of this entry »