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VMWare (VMW) hits a new low in the wake of a revenue warning, management moves
Shares of VMWare (VMW: sentiment, chart, options) hit a new annual low today after the virtual software maker issued a 2008 revenue warning and announced a management shakeup.More specifically, the company said that fiscal-2008 revenue will fall "modestly" short of previous guidance - and the average analyst estimate - for roughly %242 billion...( Read More )
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Microsoft prices services for the email-poor
No hands, new blinkers Microsoft is targeting the email disenfranchised with a suite of cut-down email and online collaboration services priced $3 per user a month, designed to block Google in business.…
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Nov 2007 15:52 UTC
This is the fifth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I part II part III part IV ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, ...
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 28th Aug 2001 19:20 UTC
The days of the plain filesystems like FAT32 and ext2 seem to have past. Newer operating systems are offering journal, 64-bit filesystems, with features like supporting terrabytes of filesizes or attaching attributed meta-data in them.
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Stormy Peters lands on Gnome Foundation
Ex-HP exec takes charge The Gnome Foundation yesterday announced that it has hired former Hewlett-Packard industry analyst Stormy Peters as its new executive director.…
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RedChip Independent Concludes Research Coverage On Greenfield Online; Company to be Acquired by Quadrangle
ORLANDO, Fla., July 8, 2008 -- Quadrangle Group LLC, a privately held investment company that specializes in media and communications, will acquire Greenfield Online, Inc. , an Internet survey provider, for approximately $426 million.
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Moonwalk Highlights 2008 First Half Success with Expanded U.S. Presence and Industry Awards
MILTON, Australia----Moonwalk Inc., the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, continued on its roadmap of success during the first half of 2008, highlighted by the expansion of its customer base and reseller network in the U.S., more industry awards and the availability of Moonwalk 6.0 across Novell's NetWare and Linux platforms.
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InternetSafety reveals where employees spend work time online
Want to know where American workers are goofing off on the Web? Acworth, Ga.-based InternetSafety.com has compiled a list of the "Top 10 Online Time Wasters."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 07:21 UTC
Windows Vista will offer varying levels of functionality depending on what kind of video card you have. When you upgrade, will your PC be up to the challenge ?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:12 UTC
"The FSF today launched a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights.
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Fortify Software Warns Over SQL Attack Headache For ASP Site Owners
USA - July 8, 2008 - Fortify Software has warned companies using Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Page) technology - Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages - to be watch out for SQL Injection attacks.
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Facebook could see a standoff over Scrabble
NEW YORK -- C-O-M-P-E-T-E. Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game.
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VMware Takes Hit After CEO Replaced, Profits Fall
Shares of VMware Inc. plunged 25 percent Tuesday after the software maker replaced co-founder and CEO Diane Greene and warned that revenue would fall short of prior estimates.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 14:25 UTC
The company plans to charge corporate customers a monthly subscription of $15 per user for a suite of "hosted" software, which includes e-mail, Web meeting, collaboration and messaging applications running on Microsoft's computers.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 7th Jul 2008 18:18 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
While I was trawling through Net Applications' operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 marked a big month for Linux . The OS saw the largest increase in market share for the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
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Cyber cafe proposal spells chaos
KUCHING: The suggestion by the Housing and Local Government Ministry requiring cyber cafe operators to submit names of school students could give operators unnecessary problems.
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Merriam-Webster Installs 'Bathroom on the Right'
Merriam-Webster has added more than 100 new entries to its new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary. Is it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who's a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold 'em game you're planning near the infinity pool? And what's that wing nut in the corner saying about dirty bombs and nasty Noroviruses?
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Gloomy Take on Digital Downloads Rattles Entertainment Investors
A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on. The stocks of The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., CBS, Time Warner and Viacom fell slightly more than the broader market by the close.
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Game maker tries to legitimize Facebook Scrabble
NEW YORK -- As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends — or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble’s owners have tried to shut down.
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Service Channels
Tuesday, 8th July 2008 Where is the Good SEO? By Dave Davies There are many great SEO and SEM firms out there, I like to think that Beanstalk is among them but there are also a number of poor ones. What separates the two and why will some succeed and others fail?
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posted by Christopher W. Cowell-Shah on Thu 8th Jan 2004 19:33 UTC
This article discusses a small-scale benchmark test run on nine modern computer languages or variants: Java 1.3.1 , Java 1.4.2 , C compiled with gcc 3.3.1 , Python 2.3.2 , Python compiled with Psyco 1.1.1 , and the four languages supported by Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003 development environment: Visual Basic , Visual C# , Visual C++ , and Visual J# . The benchmark tests arithmetic and ...
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Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
Diane Green has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive, Paul...
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Mobile owners hopeless at recycling
Only one in 10 people in the UK recycle their mobile phone, according to new research by Nokia. Two thirds of respondents did not even think about recycling their devices, and nearly a fifth were unaware that it is even possible to do so, the mobile giant said.
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Recent Original Stories
"I do not consider Windows ready for the desktop. I found it difficult to use, buggy and lacking in security . I also found technical support lacking.
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'Rock Band 2' to include new online modes, songs
LOS ANGELES -- "Rock Band" is ready for an encore. A sequel to the play-along music game that redefined the genre last year will be released first for the Xbox 360 in September, according to publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix.
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