Picture This: Video for Gmail

Google adds both video and voice features to its Gmail service.

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Novell Bid to Cannibalise Linux Market

IT Wire: “ovell is getting increasingly desperate for sales. One can come to no other conclusion on reading the latest offer from the company which once dominated the world of PC networking.”

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Why Offshoring Software Development Will Fail

Datamation: “The SMFs suggest to anyone foolish enough to use them that the cost of software development is primarily dependent upon the per hour cost of programmers. Thus, the SMFs suggest the best way to reduce development costs is to find cheaper programmers.”
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Editor's Note: High-Tech Masquerades Perversion as Science

But a lot of things still have shaking my head in wonderment. The biggest one is the tech industry’s enthusiastic glee for Peeping Tom-ery. It’s like a perversion, an insatiable, pathological need to snoop and pry where, according to ordinary courtesy and respect, they have no business going.

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Intel X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu

Phoronix: “While the open-source graphics drivers have matured a lot over the past eighteen months and many new features have been added, the ATI performance with an R430 GPU really hadn’t improved in the newer releases. To see if the open-source Intel situation is any different, we have carried out similar tests with an Intel 945G Chipset across the past four Ubuntu releases.”

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Create Your Own Linux Appliances

Ken Hess’s Linux Blog: “That’s right, create your own Linux virtual appliances with VMware Studio. Appliances are small, single purpose servers that provide a service to users.”

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