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Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. Read more »

New OpenOffice boots faster, is more compatible

The latest minor-point update to OpenOffice brings users faster launch speeds and better support for Microsoft Office 2007-formatted files. Read more »

Microsoft taps the 'Family Guy' to sell Windows 7

Microsoft on Tuesday plans to announce a deal with News Corp's Fox that will see Microsoft sponsoring a TV show that will merge a pitch for Windows 7 with the comedic stylings of "Family Guy" voices Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein. Read more »

Jovial Ellison cracks IBM jokes

Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at his company's rival IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of Big Blue's hardware and opening fire on its blanket "Smarter Planet" marketing campaign. Read more »

Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion

Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. Read more »

Red Hat takes JBoss further into the cloud

In an announcement at Red Hat Summit & JBoss World, the company's annual user conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Red Hat announced the availability of the latest platform from its middleware division JBoss and provided details of its focus on internal and public cloud based application development. Read more »

Microsoft and Yahoo agree search deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to merge their search technology and advertising operations, with Microsoft's Bing engine powering Yahoo's search and Yahoo handling worldwide search advertising for both companies. Read more »

Sun rejects IBM buyout offer, bid withdrawn

Sun rejected IBM's formal buyout offer on Saturday, calling the bid insufficient and putting future deal talks at risk, according to a report on Sunday in The Wall Street Journal. Read more »

Macworld 2009: Complete wrap-up

Phil Schiller takes the stage at Macworld 09, revealing Apple's new line up. While the rumours were mostly right, the lack of a new Mac Mini will be a sticking point for a lot of people. Read more »

Linux Foundation releases developer guide

The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. Read more »

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Development trends to watch in 2010

What will be important development trends in 2010? This article covers .NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, cloud computing and more. Read more »

Increase productivity with these 10 helpful OpenOffice extensions

OpenOffice offers a host of essential features, but as with most software, it would be nice to have it do just a little bit more. Here are 10 OpenOffice add-ons that are particularly well suited to simplifying business tasks. Read more »

The Evolution of Linux

This article shows how Xorg has evolved into something unexpected. Read more »

Getting started with Firefox Extensions

No browser is perfect -- eventually enough annoyances will build up to the point that you wish you could do something about it. Thanks to Firefox's extendable architecture and a healthy dose of JavaScript knowledge, you can begin bending the browser to your will. Read more »

10 Linux desktops you shouldn't overlook

Even if you're happy with the Linux desktop you currently use, you might want to check out some alternatives to see what you could be missing. This article highlights 10 of the best desktops and explains what makes them stand out. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

Monitor and manage Java applications with JConsole

The jconsole command launches a graphical console tool that enables you to monitor and manage Java applications on a local or remote machine. Read more »

Working with configuration files in ASP.NET 2.0

The second iteration of ASP.NET includes a number of enhancements for working with configuration files. Read more »

Set named restore points for easier flashback in Oracle 10gR2

The MERGE statement, introduced in Oracle 9i Release 2, is often called an "upsert" because it can both update and insert rows in the same pass. Rows that don't already exist in the data warehouse are inserted, and rows that do exist are updated. Read more »

Power Linux with pipes and redirection

Despite pretty GUIs and eye candy being the order of the day, there is a definite advantage to being familiar and comfortable with the Linux command-line. Read more »

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LinkedIn platform opens up to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- LinkedIn opens up its platform to developers, a new W3C draft gets published, and another iPhone virus emerges. More news in the Roundup. Read more »

Share your #songincode

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We noticed this amusing trend on Twitter last week, where people are converting song lyrics (or anything else really) into code. Read more »

Yahoo's Outlook alternative: Zimbra Desktop

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you could collect your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and corporate messages into a single in-box, would you switch? Read more »

Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Read more »

Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »

One ID to rule them all

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- OpenID is an open-source mechanism enabling you to use a single online identity to log-in to different websites that support OpenID. Read more »

Adobe previews new Web dev tools

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Want to see what's in store for Adobe CS4? Public betas of Dreamweaver and Fireworks are available for download at Adobe Labs. Read more »

China poised for 3G

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- A major overhaul of the telecommunications industry in China will clear the way for 3G services to possibly over half a billion mobile phones. Read more »

Flickr fans band together to fend off Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This is what happens when Microsoft tries to take over not just a company but also a community: a number of Flickr users have launched a group opposing the attempted acquisition. Read more »

Mandriva, Turbolinux enter Linux alliance

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Forgive me if I sound skeptical, but during the nine years I've covered Linux, not once have I seen a favorable outcome to the partnership of the type Mandriva and Turbolinux announced Wednesday. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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