Our thoughts on technology news http://www.itwire.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:12:48 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.itwire.com Our thoughts on technology news http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29148&Itemid=1090 Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:20:20 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29082&Itemid=1095 Telstra's erstwhile mouthpiece, Phil Burgess, has been at it again, peddling his views on the Australian Government, the ACCC and... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:04 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29081&Itemid=1090 The Dutch government has launched a web service called Officeshots.org which enables users to compare the output quality of various... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:30 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29017&Itemid=1092 This is the game that has kept me from reviewing Uncharted 2. How can so much tongue in cheek... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:15:19 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29010&Itemid=1090 Ten, or even five years ago, it was not uncommon to see articles surface periodically, spouting gross untruths about free... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:48:06 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28988&Itemid=1095 A New Zealand study has found that the productivity benefits businesses gain by moving to higher speed broadband are minimal... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:38:14 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28976&Itemid=1023 I have been a loyal Firefox user ever since I decided about four years ago that it was a far... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:07:20 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28971&Itemid=1090 Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors,... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:01:32 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28936&Itemid=1090 Hacking is often a lonely profession: the wee hours are generally the most productive and communicating with an inanimate object... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:20 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28922&Itemid=1090 The US Department of Defence has unequivocally backed the use of more open source software, describing the genre as one... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:29:50 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28915&Itemid=1092 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..... A new generation of inductees are enjoying the Star... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28895&Itemid=1090 Nick Hodge is, in many way, the modern face of Microsoft, a techie with excellent social skills. He has an... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:03:17 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28830&Itemid=1090 There is a growing confidence evident in the Canonical camp as the countdown begins to October 29, the date for... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:29:00 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28799&Itemid=1092 Well it is coming into the winter months in the northern hemisphere, so what better way to hunker down in... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:08:40 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28760&Itemid=1095 Tasmanian Greens leader, Nick McKim, is, according to ABC News predicting a drip-feed of announcements over the Tasmanian roll-out... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:36:41 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28749&Itemid=1090 Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:08:00 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28733&Itemid=1092 iTWire has had a chance to play with the soon-to-be-released LIVE update for Xbox 360. Featuring optimised Facebook and... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:41:15 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28726&Itemid=1090 MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:32:42 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28716&Itemid=1090 IBM and Ubuntu have set themselves up squarely inn Microsoft's cross-hairs. A day before the launch of Windows 7 in... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:31:49 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28692&Itemid=1090 Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:52:43 -0600