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Google Chrome and Android OS will merge in the future

Mike Ferro — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Google is currently working on two operating systems for different platforms. One of the OS is Chrome, which targets Netbooks and the other one is Android, targeting smart phones. Apparently, the [...]

What to look for in Google OS launch

John Lister — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:44 +0000

Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:

What’s the selling point? Is it speed? Price (or lack of it)? The Google [...]

Firefox celebrates five years as a Web browser

Dave Parrack — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:19:50 +0000

Five years ago today, on November 9, 2004, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 and the Web browser has never looked back. In that five years Firefox has grown from an open source [...]

OpenOffice gets a branded mouse with 18 buttons

Sean P. Aune — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:00:57 +0000

Have you ever looked at your mouse and thought, ‘I wish someone would over complicate this?’ Well, your wishes have come true!

Popular open source office suite OpenOffice has partnered with a company named WarMouse to release the [...]

$99 WikiReader is an encyclopedia in your pocket

Dave Parrack — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:02:57 +0000

Just a couple of decade ago, the only way to have a wealth of information available at your fingertips was to purchase a costly and bulky set of encyclopedias. These could [...]

Mozilla tries to build the ultimate communicator

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:10:18 +0000

Mozilla, the people that brought you Firefox, are now aiming to serve all your Web communications needs by combining email, social media, and more in a single unified software interface.

The team that has [...]

Microsoft tries to bribe Best Buy employees to learn lies about Linux

Mike Ferro — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:07:29 +0000

Microsoft has been targeting the OS competition this year in order to prepare for the release of Windows 7. Mac and Linux have been coming under fire [...]

High-tech advice for newspaper survival on the Web

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:02:15 +0000

A national association of newspapers asked for advice on how America’s newspapers could stop hemorrhaging money on the web and received answers from some unexpected sources.

The Newspaper Association of America, a [...]

Schools look at switching from printed textbooks to the digital format

Sean P. Aune — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:32:26 +0000

It was only a matter of time before school districts began to realize how much money they could save by moving from printed text books to digital version, but will they have the money to [...]

Google and Mozilla – A new relationship

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:13:10 +0000

When your rich, friendly neighbor goes into competition with you, what do you do? That’s what Mozilla has to figure out now that Google has brought out the Chrome browser to compete with [...]