Microsoft will release Office 2010 in June but until then there are some great alternatives. In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over [...]
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December 24th, 2009
Inmate Gets 18 Months for Thin Client Prison Hack
A former prison inmate has been ordered to serve 18 months for hacking the facility’s computer network, stealing personal details of more than 1,100 of its employees and making them available to other inmates. Francis G. Janosko, 44, received the sentence earlier this week in federal court in Boston after pleading guilty to the hacking [...]
December 18th, 2009
Shuttleworth to step down as CEO of Canonical
Mark Shuttleworth has announced he is changing focus at Canonical and Jane Silber, COO, will take over as CEO. As Shuttleworth explains in his personal blog, from March 2010, he intends to focus his “Canonical energy” on product design, partnerships and customers. He considers these the areas which he enjoys the most and where he [...]
June 2nd, 2009
Amazing AI Coming to the Xbox
Lionhead Studios’ Peter Molyneux has shown off a game character that recognises and responds to a player’s mood. The human interaction system is possible with Natal, a system being developed for the Xbox 360. It monitors and reacts precisely to the player’s movements and the way they talk. Microsoft demonstrated Natal at the start of [...]
May 30th, 2009
Bing Bong, Bye Bye Google?
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, has unveiled Bing, a new online search tool that he hopes will rival Google. He launched the public test version of bing.com at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, and the company is claiming that the service will offer a significant improvement in the number of users who [...]
