Johan Van den Brande’s Breadbox64 is a client for the newfangeled Web 2.0 microblogging Twitter service meant to run a vintage 80’s computer (with some modifications). Simply awesome! Remember: @techETA, regardless of the device. [via Slashdot]…
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You’ll have to excuse Microsoft if they have a habit of doing things over again, at least they’re showing they can learn from their mistakes this time around.PC World informs us that the company is planning on offering a…
Small businesses generally want to keep their technology costs down in order to grow so it’s no wonder that Dell is looking into offering some cost effective solutions for their customers.The company is apparently working on pre-configured hardware and…
Read more Dell Ponders Bundling Open Source Apps for Businesses
Google’s Chrome browser was launched with much fanfare into an extremely crowded browser market where the term “free” isn’t exactly new. It may have the largest search engine company in the western world backing it but the browser still…
Read more Google Chrome 2 Released, Faster Browsing for Free
OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its popular, and free, office suite bringing it up to version 3.1. The most notable changes, aside from bug fixes, are performance improvements to their Calc spreadsheet application which according to them:Performance…
Read more OpenOffice.org 3.1 Released, Discovers Anti-Aliasing
Nothing makes the business world go ’round like an office suite. Microsoft has announced its Office 2010 software suite and Exchange Server 2010. The company has made improvements to their product lines in order to make communicating your ideas easier…
…as did a few other Windows operating systems. Computerworld’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols parades the worst operating systems since the 60’s down the walk of shame. As expected, several Microsoft offerings were found to be not worth the disk they…
Read more Crappiest OSes: Windows ME and Vista Make the List
Palm may be able to get legions into Sprint’s stores when the Pre finally launches sometime this summer. But will it be the breakout product the ailing gadget maker needs to forge a bright future for itself? If some…
Read more Devs Will Make or Break the Palm Pre
Did you know there are Federal standards mandating the procurement of energy efficient IT equipment? There are, and according to the rules, agencies must spend no less 95 percent of their computer and monitor budgets on EPEAT rated hardware….
Read more US Gov't Hearts EPEAT, Virtualization
