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Welcome to Computer Hell

Conventional wisdom says columnists should write about their own problems. But who pays any attention to conventional wisdom? For the past month or so, Ive...

GPL 3.0 Beckons Open-Source Community

The Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center on Wednesday released the road map for the long-awaited revision of the GNU General...

Yahoo Will Add RSS to Mail Service

Aiming to drive RSS adoption to a broader market, Yahoo Inc. is adding an RSS reader to its forthcoming Yahoo Web mail service, currently...

Microsoft Drops the Office Open Standard Ball

Microsoft Corp.s open-standard Office XML format announcement may have proved to be a dud. When Microsoft announced a week ago Monday that it had decided...

i2 Fights Giants with Apps, Services

Supply chain specialist i2 Technologies Inc. plans to rebound from a recent dip in customer-driven revenues by pushing its products and services in some...

Regulations Threaten Nomadic VOIP

Internet telephone providers love to flaunt subscriber mobility as a selling point. Dialing from any broadband connection is a key benefit their service has...

Europe Caught Up in Supply Chain Choices

In Europe just as in North America, customers are caught up in deciding between in-house implementers, outside supply chain specialists and huge ERP (enterprise...

Blogger Blocked at U.S. Border

Bloggers have no privacy and should expect none—a lesson painfully learned by a Canadian citizen who was recently turned away after U.S. border guards...

Genuitec Adds AJAX to Eclipse Toolset

With the release of MyEclipse 4.1, Genuitec LLC is going after the Web 2.0 developer by adding AJAX support to its Eclipse-based integrated development...

PeopleCube Targets Human Side of Resource Management

After an acquisition earlier this month, PeopleCube—formerly known as Meeting Maker, Inc.—is carving out a new niche for itself in HPM (human process management),...