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Dell promises green PC drive

Dell has this week vowed that its desktops and laptops will be using 25 percent less energy by 2010.

Debian, Ubuntu keys under attack

A recently disclosed vulnerability in widely used Linux distributions can be exploited by attackers to guess cryptographic keys, possibly leading to the forgery of digital signatures and theft of confidential information, a noted security researcher said Thursday.

Asus to embed Linux on all motherboards

Taiwanese giant Asus is to embed DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux on millions of mainstream motherboards.

Innovative CIOs gain strategic influence

CIOs will gain the strategic influence they desire if they innovate and achieve efficiency on tightened budgets says Bryan MacDonald, director of the CIO practice at recruitment specialists Harvey Nash.

Open source industry worth £30bn claims Alfresco CEO

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Developers snub Windows Vista for XP

Software developers in North America are still not targeting Windows Vista when writing new applications, according to a survey released by Evans Data Corp, with many still focusing their energies on Windows XP.

Microsoft hits out at Vista insecurity claims

Microsoft has flatly rejected claims that Vista is as vulnerable to security flaws as the eight year-old Windows 2000.

Eli Lilly aims to tap 'rock star programmers'

Eli Lilly has signed up TopCoder to help it build large IT applications for its global drug discovery operations.

Linux mobile group get boost from Verizon and Mozilla

Verizon Wireless has become the first US operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

Gaz de France and Menshen win SAP quality awards

Energy firm Gaz de France, and Menshen, the packaging firm, have won West Trax quality awards after demonstrating optimal usage of their SAP systems.

Galileo and GPS systems to work together

The UK government has published the agreement between it and fellow European governments, and the United States of America, over the promotion, provision and use of the Galileo and Global Positioning System (GPS) sat-nav systems.

Africa, EU officials coordinate ICT development plans

African ministers of science and technology and the European Union have jump-started the EU-Africa strategic partnership on science and IT and agreed to coordinate ICT development plans in Africa.

Red Hat includes new USB capabilities in Fedora

Red Hat Fedora users are to be offered an easier way to use the operating system on portable USB thumb drives.

Sheffield shortlists Capita and Fujitsu for £200m contract

Sheffield City Council has shortlisted Capita and Fujitsu for a £200 million, seven year IT contract, after IBM fell out of the race.

Sun to clarify JavaFX open-source plan later this year

While Sun execs claim JavaFX, part of Sun's rich internet application (RIA) development product family, will become open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that.

Microsoft readies service packs for dev tools

Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog.

Mozilla readies new Firefox for May release

Mozilla has announced that it has stopped making changes to the first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 and is working to get that build to users by the end of the month.

Egypt's PM urges IT industry to tackle food crisis

The ICT industry needs to do its part to help alleviate the current food crisis, according to the Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif.

Coverity reveals multithreaded development tool

Software quality assurance provider Coverity has released a new tool that will allow application developers to write more secure code for multithreaded applications.

Sun announces open source Solaris updates

Sun Microsystems plans on releasing a new version of its open source OpenSolaris operating system every six months, one of which will serve as the basis for the next version of its Solaris Unix operating system, said a company executive.

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