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Ubuntu has emerged in the last few years as the most popular Linux distribution, but despite its potential, it is a long way from being a dominant presence. In this keynote from the 2007 O'Reilly Ubuntu Live conference, Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk, describes some of the...

By John C Dvorak Top 10 cool things listed by GamePro. Look for more lists as the month progresses. I like the steel rubber band gun. Is Obama using a Zune? No way! Look out for Microsoft Blue Edition Software. Its fake! IBM rolls out a virtual Linux desktop for biz. AMD reports sharp drop in sales. Todays show [...]

By John C Dvorak LinkedIn to support an app platform for no known reason. Xbox 360 to hook into the new Netflix streaming. It will be HD! Ozzie says Azure is an Operating System as a Service. HP in the news with netbook stories and perhaps an HP Linux! Windows 7, they say, will be perfect for notebooks. The [...]

In other words, it's a book that nearly everyone using Ubuntu could benefit from. I'm hoping to grab a copy shortly. Have a listen to Keir Thomas on Ubuntu Kung Fu in this week's Pragmatic Podcast. In other words, it's a book that nearly everyone using Ubuntu could benefit from. I'm hoping to gra...

With Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X, Apple follows the eclectic software tradition of incorporating ideas from other programs. But while many ideas in Leopard come from Windows or Linux, Apple has found ways to improve on them

By Jon A VoIP software seller was offering a handset by the Spanish manufacturer SMC Networks, which runs with Linux, says Heise Online. But, “SMC had shipped the handsets without including the source code and the GPL license text; these omissions amount to violations of the terms of the GNU Gen...

By Tom Sullivan Daily Linux official, MS give thumbs down to GPL v3, talking Trojan taunts victims, startup launches auction site for software bugs, and more LISTEN!

By Tom Sullivan Daily Apple's iPhone gets pair of upgrades, Novell issues first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise, HP buys SPI Dynamics, and more LISTEN!

By Trent Wolbe 13:07 - How-To: play DivX and Xvid on your Apple TV 17:14 - Apple's Leopard delayed to October, iPhone blamed 24:16 - Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, deems experiment a success 27:45 - Palm prepping its own Linux-based OS 35:46 - Dell Axim, RIP: 2002 - 2007

By Cory Doctorow Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system s...

In today's daily news podcast, we talk about the high cost of data loss and how it keeps continuing, why some think it was a cheap shot for Visa to blame Fujitsu for the recent debit-card PIN breach, how Microsoft is delaying the consumer version of Vista until after the new year, the first lo...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds takes issue with the Free Software Foundation over digital rights management, and the Supreme Court refuses to hear Research In Motion's appeal, setting up a possible shutdown of RIM's U.S. network.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds takes issue with the Free Software Foundation over digital rights management, and the Supreme Court refuses to hear Research In Motion's appeal, setting up a possible shutdown of RIM's U.S. network.

20m2s 18.3MB MP3) 20m2s 6.6MB Ogg Vobis) Subscribe: 3.08 Rob claims (cheekily)that Podcasting arose from that interaction, talking about how it fostered animated conversations between Dave Winer and the Exec Director of Trent University Radio (John Muir) about community radio.

13.20 Wanting to continue with the Open Source business model, it's where the future is. We ended up in the beer business by accident, we really shouldn't have done it! 13.20 Wanting to continue with the Open Source business model, it's where the future is. We ended up in the beer business by acc...

By Ewan Spence We’ll take a whistle-stop tour through an amazing year in this exploding field: tracking apps that merge the geek’s command-line power with GUI ease-of-use; the expansion of RSS and wiki techniques into frontline organizing apps; the spread of search and script automation onto the de...