An interview with Mark Shuttleworth
07/08/2010 • Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics. ...more
Why I won’t be quitting Facebook today
05/31/2010 • Today is Facebook Suicide Day. What I suspect is a very small group of Facebook users plan to delete their accounts along with all their personal information residing on the social networking service. The reason they're doing this is due to Facebook's shifting privacy policies and what seems to be a personal problem with the company's young CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I won't be deleting anything today except a few press releases in my inbox. But that doesn't mean I approve of Facebook's user privacy policies either. ...more
Vodacom launches R1000 laptop
05/13/2010 • Telecommunications group Vodacom has launched its Linkbook into the SA market – a super-low price netbook that will go for R199 per month on a two-year contract, including a monthly bandwidth bundle of 300MB. ...more
The R1400 netbook
03/31/2010 • The idea behind netbook computers was to provide affordable, good-enough hardware that would allow people to get online and productive ...more