Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in [...]

The satirical website The Onion often has hilarious takes on current events. This week, it turned its sights on what will undoubtedly be a big debate next year: OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) versus Windows 7. The new operating systems from both Apple and Microsoft are expected to come out next year; The Onion mocks [...]

Four years ago today, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 1.0. and delivered a better Web experience to millions of users.   Top features included pop-up blocking, fraud protection, integrated search and tabbed browsing. What made you decide to give Firefox a try?  And what were your favorite features in Firefox 1.0?  2.0?  3.0?  If [...]

The search and Web 2.0 companies that will suffer the most under the oncoming “Internet Winter”, as some has called it, are probably smaller companies and start-ups, companies that are not yet generating a sustainable stream of revenue. The reason for this is the lack of venture capital. Banks starved of cash will also be more [...]

Google Chrome, the search giant’s first ever web browser, was released to great fanfare on Tuesday, amid talk that it could one day pass Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser. The version released for free download is only at the beta - testing - stage, but users and critics have been quick to [...]

While the precise percentage is not clear, what is evident is that the percentage that Google pays publishers has gone down significantly since April 2004. It was at this time that Google announced it would be lowering the price of ads (i.e., charging AdWords() clients less) that appear on the sites of Adsense publishers. While [...]

AOL has announced the launch of two new additions to its growing network of niche websites, Pixcetera and WalletPop. Pixcetera is a professional photography gallery that focuses on high-quality images. Users can rate and review these photos, while editors at the site offer news and tips on photography trends and processes. “We saw an opportunity for a [...]

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NSW schools has opted for Gmail for students rather than Outlook. Aside from a massive cost saving this will also allow easy email access outside of schools plus access to Gmail’s great spam filter system and other applications. Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply the NSW Department of [...]

Google plans to formally unveil its new product — AdPlanner — which will provide Web analytics to media buyers looking to place display ads on the Web. The service, leaked on the Web site of the Advertising Research Foundation on Monday, was to be introduced at the organization’s conference on audience measurement on Tuesday. (see [...]

Nokia has purchased Plazes, a social networking provider based in Berlin. From the release: Nokia and Plazes today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, [...]

A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design smart card software that offers stronger protection of personal data in light of security vulnerabilities found with cards used today. NLnet Foundation will give €150,000 (US$234,000) to Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for the project, which will run through 2010, said Valer Mischenko, the foundation’s [...]

On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world’s first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory at the University of Manchester. The computer was immediately nicknamed ‘Baby’ — something of a misnomer, since it was an enormous device. Its size is illustrated by a picture of the device (below) that recently turned up [...]

Subversion 1.5.0, a popular open source version control system, has been released. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes. Among the major new features included in this release is merge [...]

The ongoing ridiculous situation brewing between bloggers and the Associated Press has now taken a turn towards the enjoyably hilarious. We had already mentioned the fact that, despite the AP’s complaints that bloggers quoting less than 100 words were violating fair use, the AP had a long history of quoting more than 100 words from [...]

OSGi, SOA, JavaScript improvements top list of enhancements in 23 projects The Eclipse Foundation next week is set to offer its annual simultaneous release of open-source project updates, this time called the Ganymede Release and featuring improvements in the core OSGI-based component model and SOA tools. All told, 23 projects are being upgraded in the Ganymede [...]

Novell has announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, which offers more than 200 new features and hundreds of application updates. The 11.0 release of openSUSE includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and [...]

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder (left) has confirmed the existence of a serious code execution vulnerability in the brand-new Firefox 3.0 browser. Snyder’s confirmation follows a public warning by TippingPoint’s ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) that the flaw could lead to PC takeover hijacks if a user simply surfs to a rigged Web site with Firefox. On the [...]

Pentaho Corp. has released its Linux-compatible, open source business intelligence (BI) software under a GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2) license. The license applies to the version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, says the company. The Pentaho BI Platform is the foundational infrastructure that underlies Pentaho’s Open [...]

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One advantage of cloud computing is that it’s an expert’s job to keep the centralized computing infrastructure up and running. But even experts have problems, and that’s what’s going on Tuesday with Google’s App Engine. The service has been having outages Tuesday, according to a mailing list posting Tuesday. App Engine, launched in April and still [...]

Today’s the day, people: Firefox 3 comes out, and the Mozilla Foundation seeks to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads of a software release in one day. Time to strike a blow for all that’s good and free! Also you may want to check out this site at Lifehacker: Power User’s [...]

A very interesting post on TechCrunch announcing the launch of Technorati’s Ad network, to be called Technorati Media. The site, when launched and live, will be at http://www.technoratimedia.com/ Quoting from the post: “…The company has been testing the new sales product with a number of partners, including BlogTalkRadio, BlogCritics, BlogCatalog, BlogTV, Technabob, GPSMagazine, GeekAlerts and NerdApproved. CEO [...]

AOL Radio won a coveted Apple Design Award for a version of the player designed for the iPhone. The AOL developed application was highlighted during the “iPhone Developer Showcase” portion of the annual awards ceremony last night at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco and won the award for “Best Entertainment Application”. AOL Radio for [...]