Linux Smartphone Over the past 15 years, Linux fanboys have salivated over the possibility of Linux overtaking Microsoft as the number one desktop operating system. Some would often speculate that the year to come would be the year of the Linux desktop. Those years, however, came and went. Linux still only holds a fraction of the total desktop market, although there has been some growth. Depending on whom you ask, Linux may be close to or have even surpassed Mac OS X to become the second most-popular desktop operating system. Their zeal is not simply driven by pure geek envy. There are social ramifications and even a political i...

The latest Opera beta debuted a week ago and along with it a security and stability upgrade. Several security fixes have been incorporated and Opera recommends users to upgrade to the 10.54 version to take advantage of the improvements for both Mac and Windows users. Although, there are a total of five fixes, details of only one fix have been revealed as of now. 10.54 version instead of 10.53? The fix that has been revealed prevents Opera from being used as a vector for a font issue in the underlying operating system. The bug was said to be on Windows systems and Microsoft issued a patch for it, but for users who haven’t patched...

The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the company that owns LimeWire, the once extremely popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, based on the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. The lawsuit names LimeWire LLC, Lime Group LLC, LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton, and others, arguing that they facilitated copyright infringement by distributing their software. The software itself does not automatically distribute copyrighted material and LimeWire's website does not instruct users on how to "steal" music, but the RIAA and NMPA believe anyone remotely associated with copyright infringement is appar...

Microsoft Office 2010 Office 2010, which was made available for businesses last month, is on the retail shelves today, Tuesday, June 15, 2010. This is the first time Microsoft is also offering Web-based versions of the Office suite along with its desktop version. The online version of Office 2010 has been available for a couple of days and can work on any computer that uses a good web browser and has internet access; although it has fewer features than the desktop software. There are several versions of Office 2010: Office Home Office Home & Business 2010 Student 2010 Office Professional 2010. Office Mobile 2010 ...

Windows Help and Support Center offers Web-based technical support to users. A Google researcher, Tavis Ormandy, not only found a zero-day vulnerability that he says makes things easy for a remote attacker, but also publicly demonstrated how the error works. This error is said to be in the Help and Support Center, which supports remote links to help with the use of hcp://addresses. Windows XP SP2 introduced a system where the program runs in a restricted mode where links from addresses on a special whitelist only are given access. But the flaw allows bypass of this whitelist. Tavis Ormandy disclosed this error to the public. Acco...

Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Today, Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Expression Studio 4. This is the latest version of Microsoft’s professional suite of design tools. This software is currently available to MSDN subscribers, and will be available in retail later. Expression 4 allows designers and developers to create dynamic applications using their current tool set and existing skills. Expression Studio 4 comes with several new features: Expression Blend – Lets designers create XAML designs that can be used with both Windows Presentation Foundation applications and Silverlight. With this, Microsof...