By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 29 Sep, 2009
IBM has made a significant stride to improve its market share in emerging economies by partnering with Canonical to help governments, businesses and educational institutions deploy open-source solutions. read more »
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 29 Sep, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put on his sales hat Tuesday and made a case for why businesses should upgrade to Windows 7, despite an economy in which many IT budgets have been frozen or are lower than in years past. read more »
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World (US) 29 Sep, 2009
Google on Wednesday will send out more than 100,000 invitations to developers to preview Google Wave, a new communications and collaboration tool that Google plans to release next year. read more »
Mozilla executives today took shots at Google for pitching its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solution to IE's poor performance, with one arguing that the move will result in "browser soup." read more »
Microsoft today warned Internet Explorer users that they could double their security woes if they installed and used Chrome Frame, the plug-in that provides better JavaScript performance and adds support for HTML 5 to IE. read more »
Microsoft has given small system builders the green light to start selling new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the general launch date of Oct. 22, a Seattle-area computer maker said today. read more »
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 18 Sep, 2009
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at an SAP event Thursday, defended American-style capitalism against charges that it led to the global economic meltdown. read more »
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 18 Sep, 2009
Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was "so darn confident" it would breeze through an upcoming software license audit unscathed. read more »
Do you want to try Windows 7 but don't want to shell out the upgrade price? Or do you long to give Mac OS X a test run but don't particularly want to buy a Mac? There's a way to do that (although the OS vendors won't love you for it): Use a "transformation pack." read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
