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Atrato replaces sales boss - again
Atrato has replaced its sales VP, Marty Sos, after just three months, and recruited a marketing VP as well.…
Google touts real-time RSS transplant
Web 2.0 NY Google is trumpeting a new messaging protocol it insists on calling PubSubHubbub.…
Firefox millions - now only 9 per cent Google free
Mozilla revenues climbed to $79m last year - and 91 per cent of that came from Google.…
Google Wave relies on kindness of strangers
Dreamforce 09 Google has been stumping for its Wave real-time collaboration system among the Salesforce.com faithful.…
Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe
Exclusive The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser contains a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe.…
Dell is beat by The Street
Dell released its financial results for Q3 ended 30 October on Thursday, and for its troubles, it took a beating in after hours trading.…
Google Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture?
Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness.…
Dell sees quarterly profits fall
Al Gore entertains the supercomputer troops
SC09 Former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did his self-deprecating politician and climate change champion routine as a keynote for the HPC (high performance computing) faithful at the SC09 trade show in Portland, Oregon, this morning and did his best to get the HPC community fired up about the job they need to do to help normal people (as well as politicians) see and understand that we need to address climate change by changing our energy, transportation, water, and agriculture systems.…
First test for record solar plane
Google previews operating system
Write haiku, win home server
Microsoft and Intel schwag?
Creativity
Intel and Microsoft want to give you a home server in exchange for 17 syllables of poetic artistry.…
Why Microsoft's IE 9 will frustrate standards fans
PDC Performance and standards look like dominating work on Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer.…
Google Previews Chrome OS, Scheduled for Release in Late 2010
Google today held a preview event for Chrome OS, the company's forthcoming browser-based operating system scheduled to launch initially on netbooks in late 2010. Among the major announcements was that, like Google's Chrome browser, Chrome OS...
Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
Google is adding new technology to YouTube that can automatically add text captions to videos using speech recognition.…
Intel invests in exafloppy future
Intel has announced that it is joining forces with a trio of French institutions to create a European research center focused on the development of supercomputers with exaflop-level performance.…
Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses
Updated This story was updated about 11 hours after it was published to reflect that Fedora developers have reversed course. Operating system users once again will be required to enter a root password before installing software packages.…
Google open sources flash-happy Chrome OS
Updated It's a big week for Microsoft. Which means Google has made a point of spotlighting a product designed to undercut its Redmond arch rival.…
Scareware tool dumps smut on Windows PCs
Rogue anti-virus slingers are getting even sneakier. Instead of offering to clean up non-existent malware threats as per the traditional approach, one rogue scanner offers to clean up images of porn it claims to have found on a prospective mark's PC.…
AOL appeals for 2,500 job axe volunteers
AOL has asked 2,500 workers to volunteer for redundancy packages at the ailing web firm.…
