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Dell has discontinued making consumer netbooks and appears to be ready to phase out its Latitude business netbooks in favor of larger ultrabooks, says an industry report. The netbook shutdown follows Dell's termination of sales of its Streak 7 Android tablet earlier this month.

Then along comes Apple’s Siri. Siri is a command-line interface that’s cool. We know it’s cool, because it’s made by Apple. But do we know it’s a command-line interface? In my view it is. The input method maybe by voice command, but the concept is still the same. Enter a command; generate output. The only real difference between the command-line and Siri, is the input method.

HP has taken some flak for suggesting it bought Palm so that it could build WebOS into PCs and printers, but positioning WebOS as a universal UI for consumer electronics is a good strategy.

Everyone loves using services like Dropbox or Boxnet. It's almost 2012 - everyone has some kind of Cloud (buzz buzz) storage! Half of us do have hardware laying around that we'd love to convert into our own 'cloud server' but never came across the right software. Instead we pay $9.99 each month to places like dropbox for 50gigs. Luckily, the people at OwnCloud.org have released their own open source software that works as a web app ready to help you store things, create bookmarks, keep a calendar, contacts, etc.. AND share it to anyone you want.. using YOUR hardware!

We are glad to announce the release of Razor-qt 0.4.0, after a months of development since the last release. Last weeks of development were dedicated to overall stability..

So far all the guides and how to’s I’ve read on how to root the LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) have been outdated. Here’s an up to date guide on how to root the LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) without ever touching the command line.

Amazon may dominate public cloud computing, but not amongst the Microsoft groupies. Microsoft has managed to be an end-to-end cradle-to-grave supplier within the data centre, and is attempting to extend this motherly embrace to the cloud with its Azure platform. Cracks have recently begun to show in this strategy, however, as Microsoft increasingly turns to open-source technologies like Hadoop to spice up Azure. Is this a stopgap strategy or a sign of a more open Microsoft cloud?

Ubuntu Software Center offers many cool paid apps. Till now it was a bit frustrating to buy apps through the Ubuntu Software Center. It was even more challenging to manage it for developers. It's changing. Ubuntu Software Center is getting PayPal support.

If you're looking for the best ways to measure your development team's success, this writer says you need to look at improving predictability and optimizing productivity and he explains how to best do that.

The security-conscious will tell you that a multi-factor authentication scheme involves requiring items from two or more of the categories "things you know," "things you have," and "things you are." Passwords and passphrases both fall under the "things you know" umbrella, and while there are commercially viable options for the latter two categories — security dongles and biometric fingerprint scanners, for example — neither have taken off with the general public. Partly that is a cost issue, to be sure, but the complexity of public-key infrastructure (PKI) smart cards does not help, either.

In August 2011, Download.com was taken on a new path by their General Manager and V.P. Sean Murphy. They started wrapping legitimate 3rd party software into their own installer which by default installs a wide variety of adware and other questionable software on users machines. It also does things like redirect user search queries and change their Internet home page. At first their installer forced people to accept the malware or close the installer (see screen shot of infected VLC installer in this article). Later they added a non-default "decline" button hidden way on the left side of the panel. Also, the initial installer shown in the previous screen shot claimed the software was “SAFE, TRUSTED, AND SPYWARE FREE”. In an unusual show of honesty, they removed that claim from the rogue installer.

A Fedora remix OS from Australia Kororaa 16 named "Chum" has been released a little late but better features. This time Kororaa used many third party repositories like Chrome, Adobe, RPMfusion, VirtualBox. And it also includes many new packages in-built. Overall its very easy and reliable Linux OS.

This week we look at 4 cloud email gottchas, HTML5 as programming training tool and an open source cloud storage server.

I hate to say this but if you don't have issues with a Linux-based OS which looks like Mac then you will like PearOS. What I do like about PearOS is that it works out of the box. The overall experience is great.

Dan Horák announced a last evening, December 15th, the immediate availability for download of the Fedora 16 operating system for IBM System z (s390x) 64-bit systems.

"I can proudly say I purchased the first Humble Bundle (the `Humble Indie Bundle`), and I can say I'm glad to have not purchased the last seven. Why? I know what you're thinking, `It's a good deal, and it's monetary motivation for developers to port their games to Linux, and remove any pre-existing DRM.` Yeah, yeah, but that's nothing compared to the first Humble Bundle."

Because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java", Canonical no longer has permission to redistribute new Java packages.

Since my HP Pavillion DV7-2180US has issues overheating (causing it to have a permanent perch on a cooling pad) an early Christmas gift to me was a Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5204. It’s reasonably priced at around $500 but don’t let the price tag fool you. While the price instantly adds this laptop to the low end laptop shelf in the store it is rich with features and is even prepared for an upgrade to Windows 8, making it a perfect Christmas gift for even the pickiest geek in your family.

If you are of a certain age (and I, most regrettably, am definitely of a certain age), a book means a certain thing, and that is this: something that you can hold in your hands, keep on a shelf, pack up and carry in a box in move after move (after move, after move…), and generally treasure for life, if it’s a good read or a valued resource. But if you're of a certain other age - it just may be an eBook.

PDNSD is a non authoritative caching DNS server. It maintains a disk cache of the queries that your system performs and subsequent queries will be faster from the cache. It is safe enough to be used on a personal Unix/Linux system as a home Desktop or a Laptop.