The Apple rumor mill is stirring once again with rumors that Apple’s new version of OS X, “Snow Leopard”, will be in August. Apple is expected to release 3 “key builds” before a full release in August. Back in February, Apple released a pre-release version of Snow Leopard and asked …
Skype has released a client for the newest member of its mobile platforms today. The app is now available for download in Japan and will be available on Tuesday for US customers. According to early screenshots, contact management, chat, Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as Skype-to-phone calls are supported so far. …
Buzzwords and hype aside, the world is moving towards a web-based future. This future inevitably means that our workstations are no longer our “application servers”, but we are starting to shift that responsibility and that management into the data center. It just makes sense. Bandwidth has become drastically more available …
The beta for the next version of Ubuntu, 9.04 was released today. Version 9.04 alpha 1 was released in November of 2008 and has gone through 6 alphas and now in the beta phase of the release. This release focuses mostly on boot speed and the integration of local applications …
Yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst shared his thoughts on why Linux on the desktop is irrelevant to Red Hat. Whitehurst says that financial reasons as well as practical reasons are barriers to the market for Linux. For one, he says, that he’s not …