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Good news for the software community based on open source. The Linux operating system grew by 23.4% between 2007 and 2008. This trend will continue with increases of 16.9% annually, according to an IDC study. Confirming the predictions, this type of software for the first time will reach 1,000 million dollars in revenue in 2012, [...]

Google Book Search, which aims to make available to all Internet users all books published in the world, will be compatible with the electronic Sony Reader. Sony has announced that through an agreement with Google, about 600,000 classic titles will be accessible free of charge to users of the ebook reader, drawing books digitized by [...]

The latest update of Apple’s operating system Mac OS 10.5.7 has been shown to improve the autonomy of netbooks up to 33%. Apple does not have a proper netbook, but the latest update to proved a better hardware support for them. Members of the MSI Wind forums have reported that their hackintosh computers, computers with [...]

Apparently the Microsoft people finally understood that the future of browsers passed HTML5 support and also it hinders the work of web developers.  Thus we can conclude then that Adrian Bateman (developer of IE), told the W3C mailing list that the Redmond company was studying the current draft of HTML5, in order to be supported [...]

Portugal starting in September will be the third country in the world with Internet connections over 1000 megs, after the operator has announced that ZON for the residential market will market two new modalities of 200 Mb and 1 Gb Since early this year, ZON has connections of 100 and 50 megabytes that has be [...]

The legendary music-sharing service has been reborn from its ashes-again-to offer a system of flat rate service similar to Microsoft with your Zune Pass, in a fashion which could be extended to other services. For now you can purchase services on-line music based on a system of paying per song. However, Microsoft’s Zune Pass recently [...]

The email service from Microsoft, has left no service to millions of users in different countries. “The server is too busy” is the only message you could read on your login page, although the service has returned to normal within minutes. Immediately the news spread over the Internet, especially through Twitter, where users have been [...]

The popular Mozilla Firefox browser, a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, exceeded the ceiling of the one billion downloads. According to an article in the web technology during today’s the browser has been downloaded up to 24 times per second. The figure does not mean that Firefox has one billion active users, the number [...]