practical technology

Practical Technology: "It’s about time. Today, July 22nd, Open Source for America, a coalition of more than 60 organizations joined together to advocate open source in the U.S. federal government launched."

Practical Technology: "Apple will tell you that iTunes 8.2.1 fixes bugs and, in particular, improves interoperability with iPhones and iPod Touches running iPhone 3.0 Software.

But, it really it only has one ‘feature:’ It blocks the Palm Pre’s iTunes compatibility.

KDE thinks there’s another way."

Practical Technology: "Hulu says that it’s “free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc.” Unless, though, you own a Sony PlayStation 3.

If that’s you, you’re out of luck."

Practical Technology: "The company saw its biggest growth in its Open Platform Solutions area, which, for all intents and purposes, is Novell's Linux business.

Open Platform showed $39 million revenue, and $37 million of that was from its Linux Platform Products."

Practical Technology: "Some days, like it or not, you need a lawyer. For most business purposes, picking the right law firm isn’t usually that big of a deal"

Practical Technology: "It's official. Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior VP for Windows business, told an audience of the Microsoft faithful at TechEd that Windows users should not switch to Vista"

Practical Technology: "Sun may have the MySQL name, but every one has its open-source code and MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius is taking the popular open-source DBMS (database management system) and forking it in a new directions."

Cyber Cynic: "If you want to buy W3Counter's numbers, 2.16% of users use Linux. Or, if you want to go by my own Web site, Practical Technology's AWStats statistics, 29.9% of desktop users prefer Linux."