Growing numbers of people are switching to Google's online e-mail and calendaring services because of the convenience they offer - you can access them from anywhere you have an Internet connection, they're easy to set up, and don't require the support of your...

Its been a long wait, but with 22 months of development now behind them, the Debian team yesterday released Debian Gnu/Linux 5.0, codenamed Lenny. The release supports no less than 12 processor architectures and includes the KDE, Gnome, Xfce, and LXDE desktop...

Now five years old, Facebook has more than 150-million users worldwide, and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is rated by Forbes as the 321st richest person in the world. Not bad going for a college dropout.But aside from Zuckerberg's prodigious business acumen, what has...

Sabinet has adopted UBUNTU as its first choice as a server operating system. The article below didn't surprise us at all:In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They...

Redmond - Microsoft is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers. Read the full article here...

Corporate America is increasingly leaving computing to the experts. Why go to the trouble and expense of building and managing complex systems to handle your spiraling data-crunching needs when another company can do it for you? And who better, faster, or cheaper than...

Google Chrome Logo, originally uploaded by Randy Zhang.Search giant Google has officially launched its own entry into the Internet Explorer-dominated market, dubbed Chrome.In keeping with almost every advanced feature Google brings out these days – from blog searching...

TMobile G1 Phone Googles Android - Powered Cell Phone, originally uploaded by Sachin Tomar's.The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google’s Android operating system, will be coming to T-Mobile as the G1 on October 22nd. Featuring a 3-inch...

3G vodafone card, originally uploaded by koke.Vodacom was rated the top telecoms provider in the survey, followed by MTN and Neotel. Sentech was rated the worst telecoms provider in South Africa.The seven providers were rated as follows by the surveyed consumers (from...

Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16.While a respected and widely-used Linux distribution in its own right, Debian has, over the 15 years, also been widely used as the base for numerous other...

iPhone 3G, originally uploaded by snowingindoors.Gadget lovers around the world on Friday crammed into stores to buy the latest super-fast iPhone 3G only to find activating the coveted devices was hit-or-miss due to Apple computer troubles.The much-ballyhooed launch...

Xbox 360 buttons, originally uploaded by louder.Microsoft said on Sunday it is cutting the price of its 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game consoles and rolling out a model with three times the memory space to take its place.The US technology giant's announcement comes...

THE office, originally uploaded by capturingreallife.Read this article in IOL. It was kindly passed on to me by fellow techie "Marco McKenzie" !

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YAHOO!, originally uploaded by The Last Paladin.Flickr users are ecstatic that the Microsoft buyout of Yahoo didn't realise. But will Yahoo survive ? Read more here...