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Switching to Ubuntu in 2013 12 Mar 2013 | 07:24 am
IN 2006, I shifted from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu Linux on my main home computer and kissed goodbye to worries about software licensing fees, viruses, spyware and frequent crashes. I have since bee...
Avoiding software piracy 5 Mar 2013 | 04:58 pm
MICROSOFT announced last week that it had found pirated copies of its Windows operating system running in newly bought branded PCs, an admission that put computer buyers in Southeast Asia on notice. ...
Pimping my Android phone 26 Feb 2013 | 05:04 pm
WHILE waiting for a serious Ubuntu phone to get to market, I’ve been playing with a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (GT-I8190), a decent dual-core, mid-range smart phone that runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. H...
Crowd funding 29 Jan 2013 | 05:44 am
IN a huge pond dominated by consumer electronics giants, one tiny startup caused a few ripples at the 2013 CES earlier this month. Appropriately, the company was Pebble, a maker of smart watches that...
Ubuntu phone 21 Jan 2013 | 09:21 pm
I HAVE a love-hate relationship with my Android phone. Most of the time, I love it for what it enables me to do – surf the Web, take photos, send messages and make calls, all on the same device. I al...
CES impressions 14 Jan 2013 | 09:19 pm
THREE days into the CES last week, my feet and brain were going numb. With more than 3,000 exhibitors occupying 1.9 million square feet (the size of 37 football fields, I’m told), there was a whole l...
Grand technology bazaar 7 Jan 2013 | 09:17 pm
THE biggest trade show in North America, the International CES, opens in Las Vegas this week, promising us a peek at the new gadgets and technologies that we can expect in 2013. The show is massive, ...
Ubuntu surprise 1 Jan 2013 | 05:47 am
WILL the makers of Ubuntu Linux really be introducing a top-secret new product this week? Try as I might, I couldn’t find a single document from Canonical to confirm the rumor that started out in Lin...
2012′s biggest tech stories 25 Dec 2012 | 05:44 am
2012 was an eventful year in technology. The world continued its inexorable march toward a mobile and multi-screen environment, with Apple battling fiercely with Google, and its hardware partner, Sams...
A good year for Linux 18 Dec 2012 | 05:42 am
THE Linux Foundation has released a video highlighting some of the major accomplishments this year for the free and open source operating system. Among the milestones cited in the short video, entitl...
