| Cabinet Office launches mashup competition |
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The Cabinet Office has set up a competition for people to develop their own mashups using previously unavailable public-sector information |
| Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record |
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Mozilla's browser has entered the book of Guinness World Records for the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period |
| HP offers Parallels virtualisation on Integrity servers |
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The deal between the companies covers HP's Integrity range, right up to the top-end Superdome, allowing customers to run large workloads on virtualised systems |
| Samba 3.2 adds cluster support |
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The file and print server software has received a major update, adding clustered file system support, compatibility tweaks and other improvements |
| Xandros to swallow Linspire |
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Ready to assume its place as a footnote in operating-system history, Linspire is to be bought by another of the smaller Linux players |
| Techies reveal their creative side for charity |
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| IBM launches Cognos 8 for System z mainframe |
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The company's Cognos division has produced a version of its business-intelligence tool that will run on the System z mainframe |
| Microsoft boosts licensing options with 'Select Plus' |
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The company's latest licensing option is targeted largely at medium-sized firms and intended to offer greater flexibility than the Select scheme |
| Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs |
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Mark Shuttleworth has called for Ubuntu developers to accept responsibility for all flaws in the OS's code, including those in 'upstream' source code |
| XP is dead; long live XP |
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Windows XP was supposed to be discontinued on Monday, but a series of concessions by Microsoft have ensured that is no longer the case |
| Gates and friends depict end of an era |
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| Gates prepares for life beyond Microsoft |
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| Microsoft to snap up MobiComp |
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The software giant has made plans to acquire the mobile-data company to bolster its Windows Mobile and Windows Live offerings |
| Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V |
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Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality |
| Microsoft's future as Gates steps back |
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| Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu |
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| Gates's greatest hits and misses at Microsoft |
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| Oracle revenues soar on software licensing |
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As it increases prices across its portfolio, the company has reported a 24 percent year-on-year rise in revenue for its fourth quarter |
| Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 debuts with Acrobat 9 |
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The latest version of Acrobat makes it possible to turn multimedia web pages into PDFs, but costs over twice as much in the UK as in the US |
| Life at Microsoft in the post-Gates era |
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With Bill Gates preparing to step down as Microsoft chairman, analysts and observers disagree on the impact his departure will have |
| Google faces $1bn damages in trade-secret lawsuit |
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Software-development company LimitNone has accused Google of reneging on a partnership and misappropriating trade secrets for Google Apps |
| Canonical releases Ubuntu MID Edition |
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Ubuntu's commercial sponsor has released the first publicly available developer edition of the Linux distribution for mobile internet devices |
| Sun: We screwed up on open source |
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| Oracle to buy Skywire Software |
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The purchase of the insurance-software vendor marks Oracle's latest effort to bolster its portfolio in targeted markets |
| BEA bears the brunt as Oracle hikes prices |
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Oracle has made significant increases to prices across its portfolio, and particularly in relation to BEA software |
| Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML |
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The company has admitted it had no experience or specific personnel dedicated to software standards prior to getting OOXML approved by the ISO |
| Sun: Java to be 100 percent open by year's end |
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| OpenSuse 11 released |
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The latest version of the Novell- and AMD-sponsored Linux distribution is now available for download |
| UK Unix users seek funding to pursue OOXML fight |
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The UK Unix and Open Systems User Group has lost its legal challenge against the BSI regarding the OOXML format, but will appeal the decision |
| Red Hat chief: We are hard to do business with |
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Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst says his company needs to improve its approach to customers and advise them on how to share internally developed software |
| Firefox 3 reaches six percent market share |
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The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million downloads in 24 hours, achieving a final tally of 8,290,545 and reaching a market share that peaked at over six percent |
| Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor |
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The company claims it will continue to support the Xen virtualisation project, despite working on an alternative method that is integrated with the Linux kernel |
| Wine gets its first stable release |
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After 15 years' gestation, the open-source project to get Windows applications running on Linux-based systems finally hits version 1.0 |
| Firefox 3 downloads smash 5m mark |
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Since its release on Tuesday, downloads of Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser have already exceeded the organisation's 'wildest expectations' |
| Google Docs gets limited PDF support |
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People using the search giant's online office suite can now upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardised Portable Document Format |
| Microsoft snaps up TV ad service |
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The software giant has bought Navic Networks, a company that helps advertisers plan their TV spot purchases |
| Firefox 3 is released for download |
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Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser is now officially available for download, as the organisation seeks the world record for the number of software downloads in a day |
| Adobe updates LiveCycle business software |
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The company has added new content-management features, along with tools to more quickly build financial services and government applications |
| Deadline looms for demise of Windows XP |
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As of 30 June, large PC makers will no longer be able to sell Windows XP-based PCs on mainstream notebooks and desktops, marking the end of an era |
| Sun boosts revenue with free software strategy |
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Sun chief Jonathan Schwartz has created his own free software foundation, open-sourcing everything from Java to Solaris as a way to grow revenue |
| Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS |
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Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is one of Redmond's first embedded operating systems to be optimised for a specific category of device |
| IBM may open source DB2 |
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The computing company could bring out its database software under an open-source licence |
| Row erupts over schools open-source project |
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A key UK open-source figure has criticised the educational IT body Becta, after it puts a little-known consultancy in charge of a major schools project |
| Firefox 3 gets a release date |
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The open-source browser will be available for download next week, says Mozilla |
| EC pledges to promote open standards |
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With a side swipe at Microsoft, competition commissioner Neelie Kroes has said that future Commission technology procurements will have to support open standards |
| Boldly going to IBM Rational 2008 |
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| Shuttleworth talks up app launcher for 'netbooks' |
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Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth has given details of a new app launcher for a version of the OS designed to run on low-cost laptops |
| TypePad demos iPhone photo-blogging app |
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| Apple answers call for iPhone applications |
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During his keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Steve Jobs officially announced the upcoming iPhone App Store |
| Programmers to get a cut of AOL's revenue |
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AIM 6.8 includes interfaces programmers can use to build instant-messaging plug-ins, sharing in related ad revenue |
A 'Virtual Rucksack' was just one of the entrants in a Microsoft-run competition asking IT pros to come up with innovative technology projects to help a charity of their choosing
At the Consumer Electronics Show 2008, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and friends took a comical look at what life would be like in the run-up to Gates's last day
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Ina Fried discuss how Bill Gates and Microsoft will proceed, as the company's chairman prepares to step down from full-time work
CNET News.com's Ina Fried and Kara Tsuboi discuss the impact of Gates's decision to step down as a full-time employee, and take a look back at his career
Technology insiders say their fond and not-so-fond farewells as Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at the software giant he founded
ZDNet.com's Larry Dignan rates Bill Gates's many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed the mark
Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer, says the company alienated open-source developers in 2001-02 but is now healing the rift
Chief open-source officer Simon Phipps expects all of the source code for Java to be under the General Public License by the end of 2008 at the latest
Attendees at this year's IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 included around 3,500 software developers and one former Star Trek actor 
Michael Sippey of TypePad shows off a mobile photo-blogging application for the iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 
