Madriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2010.0 this morning. Codenamed "Amelie", Mandriva 2010.0 is this year's autumn release of the popular Red Hat based Linux distribution

The open source KDE Community released its 'K Desktop Environment' (KDE) version 4.3 yesterday.

The U.S. Army plans to spend $50 million on developing video games over the next six years for training soldiers.

A flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's flagship Windows Vista operating system.

Godot arrives

Software engineers at Japan's embedded Linux software vendor Lineo announced technology last week that can boot a low-power computer system within 2.97 seconds, the company claims.

Microsoft stopped publishing licences for Windows 3.X as of November 1st, finally discontinuing its first successful mass-market graphical PC operating system, which had struggled along for over 18 years.

Another reason why we love Gmail

Spiffy KDE 4.1, plus LXDE for netbooks

Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama has been showing up in seven times more spam emails than his US presidential election rival, Republican nominee Senator John McCain.

Unix vs Linux continues

ELECTRONIC ARTS' long awaited evolution title Spore is at last set to go on sale at the end of this week, about three and a half years after the game company began work on it.

Class action for overtime pay

Security Engineers at the Cupertino have cancelled their planned session at this week's Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas.

No bricks removed from great firewall

And change the world

Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is placing many systems at risk of attack because networking software has IPv6 enabled but users don't know it, warns a security researcher.

'Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi'. Japanese boffins are developing three-dimensional display technology that they hope to have ready within about three years.

About that US$1.35 billion fine . . . efforts to translate Mirosoft's plea to have its fine reduced have been published.

Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.