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The ongoing economic meltdown has presented a unique strategic opportunity to vendors of open source software. ...

Part 1 of this four-part series details the steps to acquire and install the beta edition of Windows 7. Part 2 takes a closer look at the OS's new features. Part 3 assesses the pros and cons of Windows 7 based on several weeks of experience using it. Part 4 considers whether or not Windows 7 has the marketing potential to excite consumers and enterprises into willingly embracing a new computing platform...

On Jan. 26, Lucid Imagination opened for business as the commercial entity for the Apache Lucene-Solr ecosystem. The new company hopes to unite both the Lucene and the open source developer communities under its wing by offering product support, training, consulting services and value-added software for enterprises using Lucene- and Solr-based search solutions...

Part 1 of this four-part series details the steps to acquire and install the beta edition of Windows 7. Part 2 takes a closer look at the OS's new features. Part 3 assesses the pros and cons of Windows 7 based on several weeks of experience using it. ...

Home computer users and small-business entrepreneurs usually know enough about broadband Internet security to protect their data with a firewall. In most of these cases, a single firewall at a point of entry to the computers or network is sufficient ...

Part 1 of this four-part series details the steps to acquire and install the beta edition of Windows 7. Part 2 takes a closer look at the OS's new features ...

The key to a successful business plan often hinges on who gets there first with a market-revitalizing product. Being first may not guarantee instant success, but it certainly makes those that follow behind play catch-up ...

The key to a successful business plan often hinges on who gets there first with a market-revitalizing product. Being first may not guarantee instant success, but it certainly makes those that follow behind play catch-up ...

California-based LeapFish launched a new style of search engine last month, offering users a multi-dimensional search aggregator that combines several features to provide more focused results. This one deserves a prominent spot in your browser bookmarks ...

In a broad strategy change, Microsoft released its much-awaited beta version of its next operating system (OS), Windows 7, the second week of January. The software giant eliminated the usual restrictions surrounding its OS betas by making it available to anyone who wants to call him or herself a beta tester. Perhaps the idea was to jump-start a stampede of interest away from the widely criticized Windows Vista OS, which has failed to convince some potential users to upgrade from its predecessor, Windows XP...

Toolbars and add-ons bring increased functionality to Web browsers andthe computers that run them. UK-based SpinVox does the same thingfor cell phone users. The company offers several services that convertvoicemail to text messages or e-mail and allow message broadcasting tolisted recipients and social networks ...

Part 1 of this two-part series started a conversation with ubExact.com CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson. Part 2 continues the discussion ...

What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods ...

Creating strong passwords with letters and numbers is vital to keepingsecure access to computers and online accounts. Remembering them andeasily retrieving them are equally vital. A password is only as goodas the user's ability to remember it ...

In a society far away and long ago, people mostly farmed and ran storefront businesses where they lived. Then came the migration to the cities, where a new generation of workers stuffed into bulgingurban-based factory jobs. Many spent their entire adult lives working for The Man in an upstairs office ...

Every industry has a hero who paves the way with innovation. Cisco is looking for developer heroes for the open source software industry and hopes to find three as winners of its Think Inside the Box Developer Contest ...

The drawback with using most search engines is they all seem to give similarresults and generally all have the same look and feel. They lackpersonalization and offer a mostly boring environment ...

Given the many options out there, someone in the market for a portable computer may have a hard time deciding whether to go with an ultra-small netbook or a small-but-not-THAT-small notebook computer. ...

I recently carried out a personal quest for a netbook computer.Relying on a bit of insider snobbery since I write about computertechnology almost daily, I was not expecting a big problem in making aselection ...

The Internet provides opportunities for businesses to interact withcustomers in new ways. As innovations in social media appear,enterprises slowly adopt those same trends to offeralternatives for making the sale online ...