Monthly Archives: August 2008
Xandros to Base New Freespire on Debian
Xandros officials say they will release a new version of Freespire that will be based on Debian's forthcoming Lenny release, expected this fall.
The decision...
Lightweight GNOME Edition Emerges
The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has developed a fast-booting and fast-running implementation of GNOME aimed at "netbooks" and older hardware. The LXDE project...
Borland is Bullish on Agile Development
Borland Software is going full bore into agile software development.On Aug. 6 at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, Pete Morowski, Borland's senior vice...
VersionOne, Danube Deliver Agile Support
VersionOne and Danube Technologies are rolling out products to support agile development environments.At the Agile 2008 show in Toronto Aug. 5, VersionOne announced the...
Yahoo Protest Vote Goes Against Yang
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against...
AMD Backs OpenCL, Microsoft DirectX 11
Advanced Micro Devices is throwing its weight behind both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11 APIs for use with its line...
Inside Intel Larrabee
Inside Intel Larrabee
Inside Intel Larrabee - CPU-GPU Convergence
Intel believes Larrabee is the incarnation of the merge between CPU and GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) performance....
INSIDE MOBILE: How Apple MobileMe Can Improve Its Data Synchronization and Data-Sharing Service
It's been several rough weeks since the July 11launch of Apple's MobileMe, Apple's sequel to .Mac, concurrent with the availability of the Apple iPhone...
U.S. Seizes Property in Alleged Internet Ponzi Scheme
The online pitch goes something like this: Invest in our paid autosurf program and earn a 125-150 percent return for every dollar invested. All...
Numonyx, Hynix Strike Memory Development Deal
Numonyx and Hynix are teaming up to develop new types of NAND flash memory technology for use in a wide range of mobile products...