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Two astronauts working outside the international space station hit a snag Thursday when an oxygen leak in one of their space suits forced them to abort their mission. The head of the International Space Station's Russian sector said engineers are currently looking into why oxygen leaked out of an as...

Last summer, Microsoft began testing an inexpensive version of Windows in Thailand, and on Wednesday confirmed that its official name is now "Windows XP Starter Edition." The Starter Edition is included in a cheap Windows bundle that is partly designed to combat Linux in Thailand, say some analysts....

Last week, I talked about the cell processor expected from Sony and IBM. This week I want to think out loud about what happens in the industry if Toshiba launches a PC based on this processor into the Asian market and IBM promptly follows suit with a series aimed at the American and European markets...

TransGaming Technologies on Tuesday announced the release of version 4.0 of its flagship product, WineX. The product, which allows Windows games to run under Linux, has also been renamed Cedega. Cedega 4.0 includes support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0, which significantly broadens the scope and availab...

In a decision that could have far-reaching implications -- from the fate of free software to the technology used in developing countries -- the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) a reexamination of a recently granted patent (number 5,579,517) o...

Fujitsu today announced a new version of the company's fifth-generation Sparc64 processor. The new Fujitsu Sparc64 V is fabricated using 90-nanometer process technology, a first for Unix-based servers, and operates at 1.89 GHz. According to Fujitsu, the enhancements offer a significant performance b...

The latest edition of the TOP 500 Fastest List, which measures the speed and dominance of the world's supercomputers, has indicated that Linux systems are now represented on more than half of the list. The list creators use the Linpack benchmark to measure performance of the world's machines, and ha...

Everyone is talking about open source, even presenters at BIO 2004, the international biotechnology conference recently held in San Francisco. As the argument goes, if open-source software can be developed in centralized communities of interested parties less expensively than proprietary software, c...

As Wimbledon gets underway, those who did not get a seat for the matches will not have to miss a single swing. IBM has implemented a Linux-based system to power the Web technologies that will be accessed by tennis fans who want to follow the action online. IBM installed Linux-powered Tivoli Intellig...

This week, Red Hat seems to have weathered every senior executive's nightmare: The CFO resigns just days before the company is to report its financial results. What do you do? Red Hat prereleased enough good news in advance of its earnings call to calm down fears of possible scandal or bad numbers, ...

Cisco Systems is to acquire the assets of Procket Networks in a cash deal valued at US$89 million. Procket Networks was a start-up that raised US$272 million in venture capital thanks to its development of routers it claimed could offer 30 percent to 65 percent savings over more traditional ones. Ci...

Allegedly, Nokia has given funds to the Mozilla Foundation to develop a browser that can run on small devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. The project, named Minimo, already has a workable prototype. Both Mozilla and Nokia have declined to comment on the funding agreement, but Nokia has noted tha...

Intel, the world's largest chip maker and Proxim, a major wireless networking equipment maker, said on Thursday they will join hands in delivering WiMAX solutions for fixed and portable broadband wireless access. Intel said the agreement includes the development of base station and subscriber unit a...

Munich, Germany and Norway's second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux. The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has not given specific details of what will be involved in the migration. However, it was noted that the L...

To quell the turmoil created Monday when it announced that its CFO had resigned "to pursue other opportunities," Red Hat has given financial analysts a glimpse of its end-of-quarter results, which it reports today after the markets close. Kevin Thompson, Red Hat's CFO for approximately the last four...