Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

An Australian deal website owned by Microsoft has been accused of selling Chinese-made e-readers loaded with 4,000 books, many of which were pirated.

The first batch of 10,000 ARM-powered Raspberry Pi computers went on sale at 6am GMT today – and sold out within minutes.  According to distributor Premier Farnell, there were at…

Microsoft’s cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide.

Microsoft India has warned customers of its online store that their financial details may have been compromised, backtracking on a previous statement to the contrary.

Educationally inclined microcomputer maker Raspberry Pi today revealed that its ARM-based credit card-sized machine is to be taken to coders worldwide by two big-name suppliers.  Lining up to offer the…

One of the supposed advantages of the using SaaS and other cloud services is the idea that someone else handles upgrades so that you don’t have to worry about it. …

Microsoft has launched an all-out assault on Google’s privacy policies, but when it comes to protecting your privacy, Microsoft’s Web site lags behind both Google and Apple, says the privacy…

Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as…

The Australian Government’s peak IT strategy group has issued a cautious updated appraisal of currently available office productivity suite file formats, in what appears to be an attempt to more…

With tech companies abandoning the proprietary Flash and Silverlight media players for HTML5, it was inevitable somebody would try to inject DRM into the virgin spec.  Microsoft, Google and Netflix…

Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google’s Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

Redmond’s beef with Google relates to “standard essential patents” that MS rather hysterically claimed could be used by Motorola Mobility to “kill video on the web”.  Like Microsoft, the iPhone…

Google yesterday countered Microsoft’s contention that it’s skirting Internet Explorer’s privacy protection, saying it’s “impractical” to comply with IE’s rules.

After 17 years of existence, the Apache HTTP web server is one of the most successful and dominant open source projects of all time. Today Apache is looking to extend…

Canonical has revealed Ubuntu for Android, a dual-OS concept that allows a smartphone to be used as a desktop when docked.  Ubuntu for Android features a full version of the…