Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News The GNU project founder has urged developers to drop use of the open-source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft [30 Jun 2009]
- What he said .. - Andrew Meredith
- To be Paranoid or NOT Paranoid? - Xwindowsjunkie
Apple highlights Snow Leopard features 
Video Apple's senior vice president of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, demos the Snow Leopard version of the operating system [18 Jun 2009]
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM [02 Jul 2009]
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring [02 Jul 2009]
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions [02 Jul 2009]
Windows 7 could be a touch too much
Analysis A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up [02 Jul 2009]
GPL loses ground in open-source development
News At the same time, Microsoft's open-source software licence, MS-PL, is gaining in popularity, according to a study by Black Duck [01 Jul 2009]
Unisys puts Stealth into the cloud
News The company's new Secure Cloud managed service aims to shield sensitive information from other users of a cloud by scattering the data across different storage sites [01 Jul 2009]
Dell delivers SaaS package to Europe
News The company's first cloud-based services package enables European businesses to outsource email, software licence management and other functions to Dell [29 Jun 2009]
OLPC Sugar interface made available on USB
News Sugar Labs has released the One Laptop per Child XO-1 interface online for loading onto any USB flash drive greater than 1GB, and will allow it to be used on 'any PC or netbook' [29 Jun 2009]
USB could be answer to Windows 7 netbook dilemma
News The software maker is considering offering Windows 7 on a USB flash drive for owners of netbooks and other machines without CD or DVD drives [26 Jun 2009]
- Win 7 on USB and Win 7(E) - Moley
Microsoft shakes up Hohm improvement
News The software giant has introduced a free web application to show people how much electricity and gas they are using, marking its entry into the energy-monitoring market [25 Jun 2009]
Red Hat profits rise amid rivals' earnings losses
News The world's leading open-source technology solutions provider is weathering the recession with its subscriptions-based model [25 Jun 2009]
Microsoft sets UK prices for Windows 7
News Microsoft has announced retail pricing for Windows 7, due to launch in October, and confirmed that European users must buy the full versions [25 Jun 2009]
- Looks like a classical case of corporate . . . - hkommedal
US asks China to drop filtered software
News The US trade representative says China's software filtering requirement for PCs poses a serious barrier to trade [25 Jun 2009]
Microsoft releases beta of Morro antivirus
News The company has posted a beta of its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials, for testers in the US, China, Israel, and Brazil [24 Jun 2009]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News The emergency services should be using open-source software to ease the exchange of data, according to ACPO data expert Ian Readhead [23 Jun 2009]
Platform moves into cloud-management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing has released cloud-management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider [23 Jun 2009]
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organisations to drop Office altogether [19 Jun 2009]
Google's App Sync breaks Windows search
News Google will update it App Sync software to work with Microsoft Outlook plug-ins [18 Jun 2009]
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
Analysis It could take a while for the reality of better browsing to catch up with the vision [18 Jun 2009]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News The Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip [18 Jun 2009]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The W3C is seeking prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardise web apps [18 Jun 2009]
Red Hat begins testing virtualisation line-up
News Beta tests begin on the new line of virtualisation products based on Qumranet's KVM, which put Red Hat into direct competition with the likes of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware [17 Jun 2009]
Microsoft aims to double Russian sales
News The software maker has said it plans to double Russian sales in the next three years as the country's IT market has yet to catch up with more developed peers [17 Jun 2009]
