Friday - May 9, 2008
Gas prices are setting record highs, homeowners are facing foreclosure, the dollar's slipping further down a black hole, and the credit industry is collapsing. These are frustrating times -- and perhaps that's partly why "Grand Theft Auto IV" just set some new records for video game sales. The controversial title took in a half billion dollars in its opening week, with more than half of that haul coming on opening day. You've got to take out your economic frustrations somehow, and what better way than to plunk down 60 bucks for the chance to rampage through a simulated New York City.
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Friday - May 2, 2008
Sun Microsystems announced a $34 million loss in its fiscal third quarter as the company continued to repurchase its stock, reinvest cash in the business and pursue acquisitions and expansion in emerging markets. That's a steep drop from the $67 million the company made in the same quarter in 2007.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
We've been hearing about an open source revolution for years now. Although "revolution" might be an overstatement, the Linux operating system is emerging as a formidable player. Until recently, Linux was used mainly by IT pros and PC hobbyists and enthusiasts, cementing its geek reputation. But with consumer perceptions of existing operating systems as bloated and costly, this just might be Linux's time to shine.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
You know it's a good week on the Linux blogs when there are topics that draw more than a thousand comments on Slashdot. Indeed, such was the case last week. To start with the most obvious, Red Hat's announcement that it would not develop a desktop version of Linux for the consumer market in the near future made quite a stir on the Linux blogs.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Microsoft is renaming its existing embedded Windows operating systems and supplementing them with additional offerings in key device categories, the company announced Tuesday. Windows XP Embedded will become Windows Embedded Standard, while Windows Embedded CE will be renamed Windows Embedded Compact.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
Open source business servers have a bright future, according to an IDC white paper sponsored by the Linux Foundation and released Tuesday. By 2011, expenditures on Linux-based hardware, software and related services will reach $49 billion, more than double 2007's figure of $21 billion, according to the study's authors.
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Wednesday - April 9, 2008
Microsoft is continuing to make good on its promises of openness. The Redmond software behemoth posted an additional 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation of Microsoft protocols that should help third-party developers -- including open source developers -- build more interoperable applications.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
As a tax pro for H&R Block, Kathy Burlison has helped countless traditional customers. She's also helped vampires, cartoon characters and a knight doing the tango in a full suit of armor. The nontraditional visitors see Burlison Tuesday and Thursday nights as avatars inside the Internet world of Second Life.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
SCO, the company everyone in the Unix and Linux worlds loves to hate, has lost its latest angel investor. Private equity firm Steven Norris Capital Partners had filed a memorandum of understanding tentatively offering $5 million in stock and a $95 million loan the long-moribund SCO would use to pay off creditors and come back to life.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
The Linux community got a double dose of Adobe on Monday when the San Jose, Calif.-based company announced it rolled out some Linux-friendly software and joined the Linux Foundation. Adobe made available an English-only prerelease version of AIR for Linux, which enables developers to apply various Web technologies to build rich Internet applications on the Linux desktop.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager. Eros LLC, a Tampa Bay-area company that creates virtual sex scripts in the online world Second Life, sued Robert Leatherwood, 19, last year claiming he copied, displayed or distributed Eros products without permission.
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