Francois Bancilhon has all but accused Microsoft of dirty tactics in an open letter to Steve Ballmer concerning a Mandriva contract with the Nigerian government. Francois then asks Steve “What have you done to these guys to make them change their mind like this?” Attached comments imply that Microsoft paid them to switch to Windows.read […]

Three fighters from Romania were thrown out of the World Boxing Championships after they were caught trying to steal from a department store in Chicago. Romania is a wonderful country and it is a real shame that fools likes this spoil its worldwide image.read more | digg story

Since this is getting international press coverage we would be negligent not to mention it here. Today is the day of Mac OS X 10.5 (AKA Leopard).If you have been living under a rock for the last 3 months and don’t know what Leopard is they you can see more here. read more | digg […]

Steve Jobs says “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version for just $129″. However not quite everyone will get OS X 10.5 for $129. The price in the UK for OS X 10.5 will be £85 and in the Republic of Ireland it will cost 129 Euros. These higher prices mean Apple gets and extra £20 […]

Mandriva have just announced the 2008 of their popular free Linux distribution and it comes standard with a cutting-edge 3D-accelerated desktop courtesy of Compiz Fusion 0.5.2.read more | digg story

International Transparency International’s corruption perception index, despite some progress made since 2004, Romania remains the most corrupt country in the EU. Prosecutors asked Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday to authorize a criminal investigation against Agriculture Minister Decebal Traian Remes for alleged corruption.read more | digg story

A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector. Israr Khan’s Ofsted appointment was described by a former colleague as ‘absolutely astonishing’……….read more | digg story

James Burgett runs the Alameda County Computer Resource Center which takes computers destined to become landfill and installs Linux on them and then gives them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people. CNN calls him a hero, but a local government inspector from the DTSC wants to shut him down.read more | digg story

This release codenamed “Moviestar,” includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9. Hopefully it will fix the freezing issues that have plagued the Linux release for way too long now..read more | digg story

IBM have announced that their suite of office applications called Lotus Symphony will be offered for download free of charge.Symphony is made up of 3 applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations.read more | digg story