Search Results

Given the growing popularity of mobile devices and the great manyapplications to go with them, you would think that this new niche hadplenty of room for newcomers. Many of those newcomers, though, will find it difficult to capture a great deal of consumer attention. Places like the Android Market and the Apple App Store are popular and growing fast, but they're awash in apps that struggle to stand out from the crowd.

I am an avid user of open source software and a firm believer in the benefits of FOSS. I have a choice of operating systems at my disposal, but I now cringe whenever I have to work in the Microsoft world. I much prefer the vast array of Linux apps. Why? They are bloat-free problem solvers. Take, for example, the gFTP File Client ...

As communication becomes more Web-centric, text editors become moreessential writing tools. Blocks of text get tweaked with HTML codes toprovide a more graphical appearance. So good text editors are thosewith many of the same features found in word processors, only withoutthe added formatting and graphic components ...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems,announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote supportservice provider ...

Lenovo on Tuesday introduced six new products to set the stage for thePC maker's Think platform for 2010. The additions to the Thinklineup include five laptops and a server, all of which target bothenterprise business and SMB users ...

Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have been around for about a decade. They provide secure data exchange between two locations using an encrypted connection ...

To be really useful, a note-taking program needs more than the ability to simply put letters on the screen. It requires adatabase mentality with a quick and simple user interface. NoteCaseManager is designed with all thefeatures needed to be a true digital note-processing system ...

Krusader is one of those must-have computing toolsthat turns difficult or tedious computing tasks into easy,point-and-click operations. It's an advanced twin-panel file managerthat's loaded with features ...

Few, if any, photo viewing apps on any platform provide a perfectphoto management experience. However, F-Spot Photo Management for Gnomegives Linux users a fairly complete set of photo tools ...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

Screenlets bring a collection of fun things and useful apps to addfunctional eye candy to the Linux desktop with little or no resourcedrain on the computer ...

If you are looking for a superior text editor, your search might just begin and end with a nifty program called "Geany." ...

A combination of aging computers and their operating systems, alongwith reduced hardware prices, contributed to higher worldwide shipmentsfor the leading PC makers in the closing quarter of 2009, according to two industry reports ...

Jaspersoft on Tuesday released its latest offering aimed at helping businesses make sense of the piles of data they accumulate on a regular basis. ...

StarTech.com's new DisplayPort KVM Switch helped me solve a computingproblem I did not realize I had. The company's KVM Switch providesdirect connections to monitors and computers without using aconverter ...

Coverity cut its startup teeth seven years agotrying to figure out how to commercialize static analysis and softwarecode integrity. The company, whose software developer tools are usedby some of the biggest firms in the industry, released in NovemberCoverity 5, a completely reengineered software analysis solution ...

MIPS Technologies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday its plan to develop a new line of set-top boxes with Android inside ...

Tremont Electric may very well be travelingalong the same path once crossed by the Little Engine That Could. Thetwo-year-old startup is headed where several other power generationcompanies want to go but have yet to get off the research anddevelopment tracks ...