Brad Abrams of Microsoft fame talks about WPF and Silverlight and what’s in it for independent software vendors (ISVs). He talks about .Net and dynamic languages running cross-platform (including Windows, Mac and Linux) and even talks briefly about Surface development.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and

In what Intel called the “first ever software keynote address,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Solutions Group Renee James kicked off Day 3 of the Fall IDF in San Francisco.

James, who manages the global network of teams that interact with all of the software companies ...

Every since we interviewed John Sullivan, Campaigns Manager for The Free Software Foundation in Boston, our heads have been spinning with the possibilities that ‘Free as in Freedom’ Software holds. If you’re looking at this on the Web, you’ll see that our site is a pimped out Wordpress ...

I stopped by the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco recently and caught up with Mark Spencer, the man behind the popular open source telephony platform, Asterisk. Spencer, CTO of digium, also created the popular Linux-based instant messenger client, Gaim. Spencer talks about the history of Asterisk ...

Joomla! is a robust and highly customizable open source content management system. While at the recent Linuxworld in San Francisco, I spoke with Joomla! lead developers Johan Janssens and Louis Landry, who shed a bit of light on what Joomla! is all about and who uses it, ...

OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distribution that is quite useable and easy to install. Based on debian and GNOME, ubuntu offers extensive hardware recognition combined with a functional desktop environment complete with a suite of office applications. While at Linuxworld in San Francisco, I had a chat ...

Art Mann, of Silicon Mechanics, shows the insides of one of their rack-mount servers. Popular among the Open Source crowd, Silicon Mechanics runs a variety of Linux distributions in their long list of operating systems supported on their servers.

Kim Brand, CEO and founder of FileEngine, presents an overview of free Open Source Software at the Detroit ITEC conference. FileEngines use Novell’s SuSE Linux as the foundation of their operating system, and Brand’s service company supports Open Source in companies large and small, including schools, around the Indianapolis ...

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is one of IBM’s top strategists. He has been the key open-source evangelist within Big Blue, persuading the company to standardize on Linux as one of its core business strategies.

Linux and the entire open-source movement would have taken a lot longer to establish itself if it wasn’t for ...

As most security professionals know, passwords are a losing proposition. We use them because the capability comes with your operating system, but their weaknesses are many. Here, Dana Epp talks about the capabilities of token-based authentication, as well as some of the weaknesses. He hopes that some day in the not-too-distant future we will control our own digital identity rather having a different identity with each and every merchant or server.

Business Technology is HP’s strategy for the enterprise. Olivier Helleboid, VP Adaptive Infrastructure at HP, talks about how customers have benefited from HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure approach. Learn how a company can use its information technology infrastructure as a strategic asset.

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James Burgett founded the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, essentially to make money off of equipment that other people thought was obsolete garbage. Thirteen years later he’s reformatted, refurbished and donated thousands of computers to folks who might not ever have the chance to own one. The ACCRC offers ...

In this keynote from Day 2 of the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, David (Dadi) Perlmutter and [tag]Anand Chandrasekher, Senior VP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, discussed the latest trends in mobile computing, and rolled out Intel’s strategy around Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs). ...

Brian Hatch, F5 Networks‘ manager of IT network engineering talks with Network Security Podcaster Martin McKeay, about Linux OS security concerns, defenses and hacks. Hatch is the author of Hacking Linux Exposed, and he spoke with McKeay at the RSA 2007 Security Conference in San Francisco.

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