Xandros, a provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, announced that retail giant CompUSA is now selling the Xandros desktop product in all of its stores across the United States. The Xandros product line offers home and business users a complete, stable, and secure alternative to costly...
Japanese, Chinese and South Korean firms have jointly developed an Asian version of the Linux operating system, and are preparing to unveil the Chinese and Korean versions in Beijing on Thursday. A Japanese version will follow in October.
Nielsen//NetRatings reported today that escalating interest in the Firefox browser garnered a 237 percent spike in unique visitors to the Web site from nine months ago when the site first met Nielsen//NetRatings' minimal reporting levels in June 2004. More than 2.6 million people visited the Firefox...
The open-source KDE Project announced yesterday the release of its K Desktop Environment 3.4. The latest release, which has been in development for more than a year, includes accessibility features the organization says will be a boon for partially sighted and speech-impaired users. KDE 3.4 includes...
The U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-based browser that has become a champion of the open-source movement, has grown by more than a third over the past month, according to the latest independent study from WebSideStory, a provider of on-demand Web analytics. According to the ...
The independent, open-source KDE Project today announced the availability of KDE 3.3.2, a maintenance release for its latest, most advanced free desktop suite for GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems. KDE 3.3.2 ships with a basic desktop and eighteen other packages including administration, network, edu...
Phil Knight stepped down today as president and chief executive officer of Nike Inc., the athletic shoe and clothing company he co-founded in 1972 with Bill Bowerman. Knight will be succeeded by William D. Perez, head of S.C. Johnson and Son, who will become CEO and director for Nike effective Decem...
RightNow and Quris will partner to deliver e-mail marketing programs, the companies announced today. The joint offering will combine RightNow Marketing's technology platform with Quris's campaign management strategy and services. The companies maintain that by combining services they will be able to...
Amazon subsidiary A9.com today released its new A9 toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. The toolbar enables Firefox users to search the Web using A9.com bookmarks, site history, A9 lists and A9 diary features. Users can download the A9 toolbar in less than two minutes from the A9.com home pa...
Qwest Communications announced today that it has agreed to a $US250 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal concludes a two-and-a-half year investigation of the company for alleged fraudulent accounting practices by former executives that resulted in the imprope...
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