June 16, 2010
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Hardware companies don’t tend to have their own Linux distributions. IBM uses Linux everywhere, but they don’t have their own Linux. Dell will be happy to sell you notebooks and netbooks with Ubuntu or a workstation or server with RHEL … Continue reading
June 1, 2010
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On May 26, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $223 billion. That took it, for the first time, higher than Microsoft, which had a market cap of $219.3 billion. Apple, not Microsoft, not Google, was at the top of the technology … Continue reading
April 30, 2010
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Steve Jobs anti-Adobe Flash rant is really quite a remarkable document both for what it says, and what it doesn’t say. First, and foremost, there’s the fact that Jobs spends most of his time complaining about the Flash format and … Continue reading
April 12, 2010
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Usually I write about security here, but Apple’s iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple’s face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within … Continue reading
April 6, 2010
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I’m already using the beta of the forthcoming version of Ubuntu 10.04 and I like it a lot. I decided to ask the good people at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, what they thought about the new Ubuntu, scheduled to … Continue reading
April 5, 2010
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I’ve been playing with the iPad for a while now, and I quite like it. But, I’ve also noticed that there’s a lot of misconceptions about what the iPad is, and isn’t. 1. The iPad is the greatest new tech … Continue reading