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Ubuntu logoCanonical to Windows XP cliff-clingers: Ubuntu safety net's ready... now jump

With the Windows XP support clock running out, Canonical's lobbying big-government departments to standardize on its Linux desktop

Mozilla debuts Firefox Marketplace for Android apps

Bleeding-edge bazaar offers apps based on HTML5

Applications 20 Oct 00:27

Salesforce CEO Benioff: Win 8 is 'the end of Windows'

Shocks world with cloudy future prediction

Windows 8 19 Oct 23:17

Apache promotes OpenOffice to top-level project

Fiddling as LibreOffice speeds past

Applications 19 Oct 22:38

Nokia puts Symbian out to pasture ... why not release it into the wild?

Old girl needn't be finished yet

Developer 19 Oct 10:45

Windows 8 'bad' analyst says Store is a weakness

On the upside the Windows Store has more apps than Firefox's new Marketplace

Software 19 Oct 06:05

Apple banishes Java from Mac browsers

Fanbois told to install Oracle's plugin

Software 19 Oct 01:32

Ay caramba, Ubuntu 12.10: Get it right on Amazon!

Review NSFW, laughable results - what were they thinking?

Developer 18 Oct 15:00

Canonical to Windows XP cliff-clingers: Ubuntu safety net's ready... now jump

Windows 8 concentrates the mind

Developer 18 Oct 13:49

Whose cloud is the open-sourciest... Who cares?

Open ... and Shut Money talks, a Twitter meme walks

Developer 18 Oct 10:40

Canonical flings out Ubuntu 12.10 – now with OPTIONAL Bezos suck

Web-desktop love is our future

Developer 18 Oct 08:00

Users grumble after Adobe cancels Acrobat X Suite

'Detailed analysis of product offerings' leads to more expensive software

Applications 18 Oct 07:15

IBM claims first with Hadoop data security suite

Big Data tools bonanza from Big Blue

Software 18 Oct 06:24

IE10 coming to Windows 7 sometime, maybe

Yet another preview promised soonish

Applications 17 Oct 22:56

Oracle squashes 109 bugs in quarterly patch batch

Hot fresh Java will flush parasites from your system

Developer 17 Oct 13:03

Microsoft adds iOS support to cloudy mobile services

Data and messaging options improved, as well

Developer 17 Oct 00:34

Google's 'JavaScript killer' marks first birthday with update

New Dart SDK brings speed boost, language revamp

Developer 16 Oct 22:21

Microsoft gouges Australia lightly on Surface

Windows 8 tablet prices AUD$25-$41 higher than in USA

Windows 8 16 Oct 22:01

Microsoft Surface ad targets preppy, Glee-watching youngsters

Kids just wanna get in touch with each other

Windows 8 16 Oct 12:09

Windows 8 and the ‘Dad test’ stunts

Comment Let's get real

Windows 8 16 Oct 10:01

Quite contrary Somerville: Behind the Ada Lovelace legend

Lovelace Day Behind every famous woman there stands ... another woman

Developer 16 Oct 09:20

Android app dev dashboard update eases headaches

Reworked Google Play Console brings better UI, more stats

Developer 15 Oct 22:29

iPad voice app back after patent spat: Mute kids get 'voices' back

You WILL think of the children, judge insists

Developer 15 Oct 12:58

Windows 8 ads hit US screens: Death Metal, exploding laptops

Someone get a small kid in here, I can't work this

Windows 8 15 Oct 10:59

SAP customers fancy licence payments 'holiday'

No staff = no users = no usage

Applications 15 Oct 07:38

Free games for all after EA discount code goes viral

SNAFU meant one code worked multiple times, for multiple people

Software 15 Oct 06:32

Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin

Wacky retail packaging revealed

Windows 8 12 Oct 20:10

'Stop-gap' way to get Linux on Windows 8 machines to be issued

You'll still be able to pick up a Penguin

Windows 8 12 Oct 14:19

Hands on with BB10: Strokey dokey

Preview No time for 'Back' buttons - we're headed into the FUTURE

Developer 12 Oct 08:20

Office 2013 hits RTM, will ship starting in November

Buy Office 2010 now, get a free upgrade

Applications 12 Oct 00:34

Google updates Street View with 250,000 miles of footage

Rubbing salt in Apple's wounds

Applications 11 Oct 20:21

How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails

Special Report When Meego lost its mojo

Developer 11 Oct 14:25

Ballmer's lightened pay packet is the least of his problems

Open ... and Shut What's that smell around Windows 8?

Developer 11 Oct 14:00

Ubuntu goes fishing for donations with new download page

'Spare us a quarter for an ISO, sir?'

Software 11 Oct 00:53

Office for Android and iOS to ship by March 2013?

Maybe, but not in the sense you're hoping for

Applications 10 Oct 23:28

RIM opens BlackBerry 10 marketplace for submissions

Will $10,000 woo the developers?

Developer 10 Oct 23:27

Amazon UK leaks Windows 8 retail box, TV ads

Here's what we're in for as October 26 approaches

Windows 8 10 Oct 19:43

Microsoft fast-tracks Windows 8 Service Pack updates

No year-long wait for Metro fans

Windows 8 10 Oct 14:41

Ballmer aims chair at Apple after Windows package miss

Windows failures shrink CEO's fiscal reward

Windows 8 10 Oct 11:31

Linux on ARM breakthrough to take away Torvalds' arse pain

One kernel to boot them all and in the darkness bind them

Developer 10 Oct 08:58

Microsoft to devs: Bug users about security … now!

Redmond reveals how and when it decides to remind you about security

Developer 10 Oct 04:18

Apple Maps too good for Taiwanese military

Cupertino told to blur images before China spots radar ... Oops

Software 10 Oct 03:37

British Library tracks rise and fall of file formats

Analysis of 2.5 billion online files suggests software obsolescence slowing

Software 10 Oct 00:41

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Ubuntu RHS teaser
Review NSFW, laughable results - what were they thinking?
Open ... and Shut Money talks, a Twitter meme walks
Ada Lovelace, credit 2D Goggles
Lovelace Day Behind every famous woman there stands ... another woman
Open ... and Shut What's that smell around Windows 8?
Open ... and Shut If it hoards functionality, it could lose the community
Firefox crop circle
Open ... and Shut A decade of real choice - there's no app for that
Dell and HP swing both ways on ARM/Clover Trail
Microsoft bigwig adds: 'We’re not afraid to make hard calls'
screen grab of visual studio sf for Tim Anderson piece
Avast, ye Redmond buckos, where's me variadic template?