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Firefox 3.0.1 has been around for months, Norton 360 2.0 and Internet Security 2008 ditto. For many users, however, it would appear that the two cannot live happily together. So just what is the problem?

Like the iPhone, Google Chrome has been embraced by most of the media with rose-tinted spectacles enhanced praise. Much of the acclaim coming before anyone had actually even used the open source browser in a real-world environment. Now that it has been put to that test, how shiny can the Chrome reputation remain?

Just a couple of weeks ago Linux New Media acquired the subscriber base of Linux Magazine in the USA. Now comes the news that it is axing the paper version and moving publication online.

Forget the delays with handset production, the real story here is surely the fact that Android developers are getting frustrated with Google. They reckon that Google could jeopardize application compatibility as a result.

Strange but true: an Australian Linux powered robot has beaten off stiff competition from a Dutch guitar playing robot and a Finnish robotic pianist to win a major science competition...

One of the 50 most powerful computers ever built has been assembled by IBM, but thisis an HPC with a difference: it's a dual-booting device which runs Windows HPC Server 2008 as well as Linux.

Just why did developers pull the privacy button from the final release of Firefox 3 this late in the game?

Has Microsoft lost the confidence of value added resellers with regard to profitability after it fails to make the top three in server operating system awards ceremony?

Forget the One Laptop Per Child project hyperbole, there seems to be another contender emerging which is deserving of the title 'cheapest Linux laptop on the planet' despite having very little in the way of publicity when compared to the OLPC machine.

Linux sales in China have rocketed through the roof in the last year, but how many of these Linux PCs are being used as a cheap route to a pirated Windows machine?

It would appear that Nokia is predicting that Linux will play an increasingly important role within its Internet enabled device line up.

This is the first post in my new series called Crystal Ball Sunday. These Sunday posts are where I take out my Linux, and related technology, crystal ball and give you my predictions for the coming months. This week I am focusing on corporate conversion to Linux.

If Novell CEO Ronald Hovsepian was the the president of the Dairy Association would he say that he predicts people are going to drink less milk?

The cold, harsh truth is that Linux systems are pretty much ideal for being compromised for use as a botnet controller, ironically more often than not being in control of a virtual army of infected Windows PCs.

The developer formerly known as Celunite claims industry first with Mobile Linux platform based on LiMo Foundation software.

How did quite possibly the most boring video clip ever become the YouTube number one this Xmas?

To embrace Linux, or not embrace Linux, that is the question.

Can eBay hold the SourceForge secret to making money out of open source software?

How many people are using Firefox? It's hard to say because the latest official figures cannot count Linux users who fall into a dark matter phenomena when it comes to the measurement methodology.

Want a sneaky peek at Ubuntu 8.04? Then you are in luck as the Hardy Heron Tribe 1 Alpha pre-release has just been made available for download.