Beta mongoose flaunts new face Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.… Full published article at: Read More »

That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.… Full published article at: Read More »

Execution wins. Not ideas Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.… Full published article at: Read More »

Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.… Full published article at: Read More »

Snazzy new social thing walled off Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.… Full published article at: Read More »

Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4 The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.… Full published article at: Read More »

Remember the Googasm Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines.… Full published article at: Read More »

'We're more consistent. And we're here' Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.… Full published article at: Read More »

Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 16:18:00 The drain, plumbing and locksmith services firm is using a bespoke configuration of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system Dyno-Rod has appointed cloud specialist secureVirtual to roll out a customer relationship management (CRM) system across its 100-plus franchises. The drain, plumbing and locksmith services firm is using a bespoke configuration of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system hosted in a private virtual environment, which is being managed internally by Dyno-Rod’s IT department. The system provides a centralised location for customer details, tracking jobs, processing orders and invoices, managing sales...Read More »

Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much) AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.… Full published article at: Read More »