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Industry veterans bet on open-source model

A team of computer industry veterans, including a former Microsoft executive, are launching an open-source company that aims to be the Dell of the software industry. Read more »

Sun, Microsoft join on Web app standard

A consortium of major technology companies, including newfound allies Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, submitted on Tuesday a proposed new standard intended to promote interoperability between Web applications. Read more »

Offshoring on the rise: Meta

The average enterprise will offshore around 60 percent of its application work by 2009, according to IT research group Meta. The figure will reach that point after escalating by nearly 20 percent annually each year through to 2008. Read more »

End of the line for HP's Alpha

Hewlett-Packard will release its final Alpha processor on Monday, the beginning of the end for a chip dynasty that never was. Read more »

Tablet PCs find niches not riches

A new report says tablet PCs are catching on in some areas but haven't yet made it with most businesses and consumers. Read more »

Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code

Two new Bagle worm variants and the worm's original assembler source code were spreading around the Internet on Sunday - a dangerous development, according to security experts. Read more »

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Games development: a real career choice?

The recent spotlight on poor working conditions in the games industry has an all too familiar ring to it for local games developers. Read more »

Open source closes in on Microsoft

Microsoft has changed its tune toward open-source software--from denouncing it as a "cancer" that stifled innovation to "loving" the concept of shared source. Read more »

Small projects rely on quality activities instead of processes

Project managers of small projects don't have the luxury of a formal quality process. Instead, small projects require individual quality activities. Anything more can be a waste of project resources. Read more »

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