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
iPhone will debut in the UK on November 9 with the mobile phone operator O2 with handsets costing £269 (inc VAT) for the 8GB version. Tariffs will be available from O2 starting at £35.read more | digg story
SCO Group, best known for suing IBM about Linux, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This was widely predicted even during the failed IBM law suit, but the timing as left some surprised as many expected SCO to run out of cash at the beginning of this year.read more | digg story
There is trouble in Google Land… Things are afoot, the Google tool bar page rank hasn’t been updated for months. Several big directories are finding their position in Google wobbling, site positions on the results page are bouncing up and down and there is talk that Google will remove the public page rank information displayed […]