E-books won't reign over traditional books
Readers have access to soft versions of books and other reading materials but such options remain only as alternatives, says Singapore's national library.
S'pore SOEasy to roll out this month
Mega project to standardize desktop, network and messaging elements across government agencies begins in July, but authorities are sketchy on details.
Developers will decide Pre's fate
For Pre to stamp smartphone competition, Palm must court developers whose support can "make or break" the device's success, analyst says.
Apple patches two critical Safari bugs
Update fixes two bugs that put Mac and Windows systems at risk of cross-site scripting attacks or of being taken over.
Find more stories in: Web browsers, Open source, PC security, Network security, Apple Inc., Security, Apple Macintosh, Secunia, patch management, Apple Safari
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory creates new hurdle for adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive.
Find more stories in: Memory, Pricing
Can RIM get mojo back with BlackBerry Tour?
New BlackBerry Tour arrives this weekend in the United States, even as Research In Motion seems to be be unsettled by the likes of Apple's iPhone and Pre by Palm.
Find more stories in: Development/design, Mobile/Wireless, Handhelds, Sales/revenue
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners
The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system.
Find more stories in: Linux, Personal Computers, Open source, Operating systems, Qualcomm Inc., Acer Inc., Google Inc., Recruiting, operating system, ASUS
Users upset after CA antivirus detects Windows system file as virus
Computer Associates says it will offer a tool to search for affected files and restore them to original extension.
Find more stories in: Antivirus software, Viruses and worms, Computer Associates International Inc., GUI, Mozilla Thunderbird, antivirus, Cygwin, patch management, virus, hard drive
Hotmail gets more Bing with new quick add menu
Users of the popular Web mail service can now do Bing searches that can be stuck inside of outgoing messages and replies.
Find more stories in: Web browsers, Web sites, Microsoft Live Search, Web Browser, Video, CSS, Australia, movie, e-mail, MSN Hotmail
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualization
Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualization portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs.
Find more stories in: Virtualization, Desktops, Server platforms, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Consumer Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Desktop, VMware Inc., Server
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Find more stories in: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
Silverlight 3 debuts ahead of official launch
Microsoft posts final version of its Adobe Flash rival, a day ahead of its official launch in San Francisco.
Find more stories in: Business applications, Multimedia, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Winter Olympics, San Francisco, Vancouver, NBC, PC, Multimedia
DirectX targeted in Microsoft security updates
Microsoft Patch Tuesday preview shows that one of six security updates slated for next week will target critical hole in DirectX.
Find more stories in: Hacking, Microsoft Windows, Web sites, Security, ActiveX Control, DirectX, Microsoft Virtual PC, Video, Microsoft Windows, Security Update
First open source Symbian software released
With release of OS Security Package code, the Symbian Foundation takes first step to eventually open source its entire mobile operating system.
Find more stories in: Linux, Protocols and platforms, Applications and tools, Business applications, Operating systems, Symbian, Legal, Open-source Software, operating system, Symbian Inc.
Europe falling behind US in cloud
Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud computing services within five years, according to region's commissioner for telecoms and media.
Find more stories in: Cloud computing, Services, Recruiting, Copyright, International governments, Mobile, Small And Medium Enterprise, European Union, Europe, Net Neutrality
EMC wins NetApp in Data Domain bidding war
NetApp's proposed merger agreement with Data Domain was terminated after the former declined to raise its bid. EMC will now have the rights to acquire in US$2.1 billion deal.
Find more stories in: Storage, Acquisitions, Domain, EMC Corp., financial benefit, CEO, analyst, merger, board of directors, Benefit
Mozilla calls on coders to build Web-tool index
It is asking programmers to help build an Open Web Tools Directory in a bid create a comprehensive index of all open source developer tools available.
Find more stories in: Open source, Web servers, Business applications, R&D, Web Browser, Database, Tool, data entry, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
Android on PC gets new input
A new alpha version of LiveAndroid has been released, adding mouse-controlled cursor and keyboard functionality to the PC port of Google's mobile operating system.
Find more stories in: Business applications, Operating systems, Mobile platforms/communications, Bluetooth, Desktops, Linux, Memory, Mobile, Android, Google Inc.
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