Category: Open Source

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Ontario taking over the TTC?

May 4, 2019

An interesting idea, but will it work? I am a bit suspect over the real intentions. If the Government takes over the subway and…

The Usefulness of Facebook

March 22, 2013

I am a user of Facebook, but not a real fan. By stating this some may feel it’s pointless to read on. Well let…

Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet?

June 12, 2012

Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet?

Google has hinted at its own tablet since December. That’s when Eric Schmidt said the company would “market a tablet of the highest quality” within six months. Google later showed interest in competing with budget tablets such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

Last month the Nexus tablet popped up on benchmarking site Rightware. According to the specs will use a quad-core NVidia Tegra 3 processor, and come with the Android 4.1 (“Jelly Bean”) operating system.

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up

April 8, 2012

Open-education resources have been hailed as a trove of freely available information that can be used to build textbooks at virtually no cost. But…

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December 1, 2011

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Overview of the Open Platform for the PLAYSTATION®3 system

March 30, 2010

Thought I would re-post a soon to be non-existent feature of the original PS3. ————————————— There is more to the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system…

Open source in a time of recession

October 8, 2008

No one questions the fact of recession any more, although we have yet to confirm a single quarter without growth, let alone two. Tech…

Google Chrome Browser Or Cloud Operating System?

September 3, 2008

By most accounts, the Google Chrome development team has dramatically achieved its goal of building a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated…

KDE or Gnome? Some advice for those new to Linux

August 31, 2008

KDE or Gnome? This is the killer question that can be quite difficult to answer and there appears to be very little information available…

The end run around the OS is underway

August 19, 2008

The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application…
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