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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 ...

Using the latest version of the Opera Web Browser (version 10.10) is like meeting up with an oldfriend and finding out he or she now has issues with the relationship ...

Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident ...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Ubuntu commercial sponsor Canonical, announced on Thursday that he is stepping aside to develop cloud products and begin new partnerships. He named Chief Operating Officer Jane Silber to take his place as CEO of Canonical ...

Google finally released a beta version of its Chrome Web browser forLinux on Dec. 8, slightly more than one year after releasing itsChrome browser for Microsoft Windows. The wait was worth it,especially given the more than 300 extensions already available tocustomize the new browser ...

Lunascape, a newcomer to the growing field of Web browsers, released its official/stable version of Lunascape 6 Orion on Friday, a little more than one month after introducing the Alpha version ...

The Boxee video-on-demand software maker aimsto change the way consumers get free movie and TV entertainment from the Internet with its first hardware venture, called "Boxee Box." ...

Sun Microsystems this week released VirtualBox 3.1, including several key enterprise features aimed at maintaining minimal downtime on virtualservers ...

Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10,otherwise known as "Karmic Koala," could be for the Linux communitywhat the recently released Windows 7 OS from Microsoft is to theWindows world. Of course, this latest release that replaced Ubuntu9.04 did not have as much to do in bettering its predecessor as didWindows 7 had in overcoming Vista ...

Does the mobile phone world really need yet another platform, opensource or otherwise? South Korean-based electronics firm Samsung answered yesto that question on Tuesday when it announced thelaunch of Bada ...

In a move that resembles a major food vendor giving away its prizerecipe -- minus the secret sauce -- to all of its customers and competitors, Yahoo onMonday donated the source code for its Traffic Server software to theApache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator Project ...

In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds -- Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software ...

Windows 7 is on my wish list. ...

Unix software firm SCO Groupannounced a corporate restructuring plan Monday to sever ties withCEO Darl McBride and reduced the company's workforce. The restructuring wasdesigned by the firm's Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee, Edward Cahn ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS)/SQL injection attacks have been blamed for numerous data breaches, perhaps most notably the nightmare of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. This type of attack has been around for at least a decade ...