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Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival

February 6th, 2012 · No Comments

Some of my die-hard Windows friends are very excited by Windows 8 arrival later this year. Others fear that Windows 8 will be a repeat of Microsoft’s Vista disaster. Me? I know Windows 8 will be a Vista-sized fiasco. Before jumping into why I think far most PC users will still be running Windows 7 [...]

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Tags: Business · Desktop · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Operating System · SmartPhone · Tablet

Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments

I like Apple products. God knows I own and use enough of them. But, I hate their out-sourcing business practices and their world-wide anti-Android lawsuits. So, when I learned this morning that Motorola Mobility had won a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud service in Germany because of a patent violation and Motorola had followed that [...]

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Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Infrastructure · Legal · Motorola · SmartPhone · Tablet

Spark, free-software Linux tablet, to ship in May

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

Aaron Seigo, one of the KDE’s lead developers, and a leader of the Spark free-software Linux tablet development effort, has reveled more about the Spark, including, alas, that the Spark won’t be available until May 2012. Seigo explains, “We have a lot of pieces to coordinate, and not just technical issues like the OS image [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Tablet

How Web savvy are Romney, Gingrich and Obama?

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

President Barack Obama recently held a Google+ video Hangout; Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. moon-base by 2020; and fellow Republican Mitt Romney, along with Gingrich and Obama, are against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA). So, as politicians go, these guys are all pretty tech-savvy [...]

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Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Internet · Mobile · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services

Spark: The first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way

February 1st, 2012 · No Comments

Open-source software and Linux, thanks to Android, is well represented on tablets. But, if you didn’t want to deal with proprietary firmware and software, you were out of luck… until now. Aaron Seigo, one of the KDE’s lead developers, and his team are just about ready to roll-out the first tablet based entirely on Linux [...]

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Tags: Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Tablet