Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 8.0: "BETA2 is still a little bit 'rough around the edges' and we still have various debugging tools enabled that cause the system to perform worse than

Onur Küçük announced the official release of Pardus Linux 2009: "The international CD of Pardus 2009, containing 11 languages to choose from, is also available from FTP servers. This new release contains many bug fixes and enhancements. A new, shiny

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a free book that provides instructions for compiling a basic Linux operating system from scratch, offered primarily as an educational tool for those who wish to learn more about Linux internals. The Linux From Scratch

Jereme Hancock announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 5.0: "After almost a full year without a release we finally have the next release ready. We also have a new development team and focus. The release of Ubuntu Christian Edition

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To capitalize on the growing opportunities in the internet security space, AVG Technologies, a provider of Internet security solutions, is strategizing a new initiative

Zylog Systems has tied up with Aptilo Networks, a global provider of integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in Wimax and wi-fi networks, for the launch of its Wi5 services across India. Zylog's Wi5 service is

Cognizant has signed a multi-million dollar contract for a period of five years with Invensys Operations Management to co-innovate and help clients stitch their plant-floor applications

Enterprise hosting companies are already positioned to deliver cloud computing services to the enterprise market. Forrester in its survey results indicated that there is a strong interest in cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) among enterprise sector

Strange but true. Nandan Nilekani, who has been appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head the National Authority for Unique Identity, does not have an official email id

Virtualization services provider -- Parallels, is expanding its presence in the growing APAC cloud computing market. It will ramp up its direct presence by introducing new offices in Australia and S. Korea

As customization and convenience has become increasingly important to customers, marketers are looking at effective means of using the mobile phone for advertising. Bay Talkitec has developed a 'Mobile Video Yellow pages' solution that allows users to view ads and

The recent incident involving hacking of Twitter shows that most social networking sites still lack a robust security system

Kaspersky Lab, a developer of Internet content management solutions, has unveiled its Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Anti-Viruses 2010 in the Indian market

Nokia and Accenture have entered into an agreement, wherin Accenture will acquire Nokia's Symbian Professional Services unit responsible for Symbian OS customer engineering and customer support

Huawei s MSTP can figure out which network path is 'broken' and automatically switch the data traffic onto a different path. In a country like India, where 'cable cuts' are a common occurrence, this platform should prove immensely useful

TechProcess Solutions Limited (TPSL), a provider of transaction processing, data processing and document management software solutions, has tied up with 15 leading banks and has also built an 'online SIP' feature into its integrated Online Mutual Fund platform

HCL Axon, a division of HCL Technologies, announced a strategic partnership with South Africa's UCS Group and a takeover of the Group's enterprise solution SAP division

CA India, a provider of governance, compliance and management solutions, has partnered with various government agencies and system integrators (SI) to facilitate e-initiatives in the country

Bugs are a fact of life in the technology world, and the Open Source community is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the open way these vulnerabilities are handled, as the developers behind Mozilla's Firefox browser have aptly demonstrated.