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Mark Ballard the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 15:55:00 Autistics demonstrate outside US embassy THE MOTHER of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop her son's extradition to the US where he will stand trial

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 19:00:00 little lappie problem THERE MAY BE some debate about whether netbooks are an important growth opportunity for chipmakers, or if they're taking a significant bite out of laptop sales, but the

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 18:16:00 Everyone is joining in PUTTING A finger in the wind, industry analyst - Screen Digest - has decided that revenues form digital music downloads to mobile phones are going to double

Dean Pullen the Inquirer, Saturday 6 December 2008. 12:49:00 After two years in beta AFTER A SIGNIFICANT period of waiting, a final 'stable' release of Jboss 5 has hit Jboss.org for download. Jboss 5 'fully complies with the Java EE

Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Saturday 6 December 2008. 08:42:00 Volefone to save the Zune A FEW DAYS ago, we told you about the new MS phone. More tidbits are leaking out of Nvidia about it, they can't seem to keep

Give us meat and potatoes, not video!Sun Microsystems is once again flogging the consumer pony and talking of monetizing "volume markets" to rally developers to JavaFX, its foray into rich internet applications (RIAs)....

TXT 'ARM OP' to 80008A British surgeon has performed an arm amputation on a 16 year-old boy, using instructions sent to him by text message....

Power and portability at a presentable priceReview If you're left confused by the extraordinary popularity of netbooks, but still want a decent laptop without spending a fortune, Samsung's Q310 has you squarely in its sights. At under £700, it's fast,

As rogue HPer slams The Butcher's 'Selfish Capitalism'EDS president and chief exec Ronald Rittenmeyer will retire from HP at the end of the year, as HP steps up efforts to fully digest the massive IT services company it acquired this

News Observer: "Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party.Instead, the Raleigh software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees."

Fierce Content Management: "For these reasons and more, you should at least include open source options when you evaluate content management vendors. Many vendors like eZ Publish and Alfresco are working with large organizations, which shows how well they can

Cyber Cynic: "I don't have a Kindle. Yet. I was holding out for the second edition of the Kindle, but Amazon was unable to ship out by this holiday season. Now, even if you wanted the first model, you can't

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this weekend, I again combed the Internet with a fine-toothed ...hair brush... and found even more funny stuff out there. It never ceases to amaze me that, out of the billions of people alive

Heise Open Source: "In addition, the office suite's menus have become so cluttered and badly structured that users find it impossible to locate certain functions - a problem Microsoft addressed with the ribbon feature in Office 2007. Ribbons have replaced