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IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Development · IBM · Office Software · Open Source

The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with Apple’s iPad-based textbooks

January 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off

Apple’s iBooks2’s reinvented textbooks really are something. They’re gorgeous, they’re fast, they’re real-time interactive with up to date information and they’ll only cost $14.99 or less. But, to use them, you’ll need an iPad–minimum list price: $499. Can you afford that for your kids? Can your school board? I could, but I’ve been lucky enough [...]

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Tags: Apple · Applications · Business · Ebook · Education · Infrastructure · Tablet

Carrier IQ tries to spin its way out of trouble

December 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off

Carrier IQ, the mobile phone network analysis company at the heart of the smartphone spyware scandal, isn’t talking to me, but it is talking to AllThingsD. To them, Andrew Coward, Carrier IQ’s VP of marketing, explained that “The software receives a huge amount of information from the operating system. But just because it receives it [...]

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Tags: Applications · Infrastructure · Network · Network Services · Security · SmartPhone · Tablet · Telecomm/VoIP

Finding and cleaning out your smartphone’s Carrier IQ poison

December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off

Isn’t it wonderful? It turns out that a spyware rootkit from a company called Carrier IQ is on hundreds of millions of Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Only Windows Phone-powered smartphones seems to have avoiding this program that reports on almost everything you do with your phone. In the case of iPhones, it appears [...]

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Tags: Applications · Infrastructure · Mobile · Network · Network Services · Security · SmartPhone · Tablet · Telecomm/VoIP

Rumble in the cloud: 5 cloud storage services compared

December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off

December 01, 2011, 7:00 AM — It used to be that when I said “cloud services,” people’s eyes would glaze over and in minutes they’d be gently snoring. That was then. This is now. While CIOs and CTOs still debate about what role the cloud will have in business, personal cloud services have been slowly [...]

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Tags: Amazon · Apple · Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Network Services