Ontario taking over the TTC?
An interesting idea, but will it work? I am a bit suspect over the real intentions. If the...
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Category: Open Source
The Usefulness of Facebook
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 me confess, I have tried to understand our global fascination with Facebook. Why is it so popular? What makes...
Read MoreGoogle’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.
Read More3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
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 a copyright lawsuit filed last month presents a potential roadblock for the...
Read MoreOverview of the Open Platform for the PLAYSTATION®3 system
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...
Read MoreOpen source in a time of recession
No one questions the fact of recession any more, although we have yet to confirm a single quarter without growth, let alone two. Tech hates recessions, even though tech booms start at the bottom of them. The PC boom emerged from...
Read MoreGoogle Chrome Browser Or Cloud Operating System?
By most accounts, the Google Chrome development team has dramatically achieved its goal of building a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Walter...
Read MoreKDE or Gnome? Some advice for those new to Linux
KDE or Gnome? This is the killer question that can be quite difficult to answer and there appears to be very little information available on the first couple of pages of search engine results for the new Linux user. Which one is...
Read MoreThe end run around the OS is underway
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 that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s...
Read MoreDid the big boys really kill OLPC?
The UK’s Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to embody all that was good in open...
Read MoreMicrosoft makes it official – XP is coming to the XO OLPC
Microsoft’s participation in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond’s official...
Read MoreAt What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?
Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo!...
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