ZDNet News - News Page OneZDNet delivers information resources for IT professionals.OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market- September 17, 2008 One Laptop per Child exec David Cavallo says the organization welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as "unfortunate."http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-222362.html What the credit crunch means for IT- September 17, 2008 The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-222203.html Cheat sheet: SEO- September 16, 2008 Confused about what SEO is and what it does Silicon.com put together this SEO cheat sheet to help you understand why it's so important.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221703.html Porn passed over as Web users become social--author- September 16, 2008 Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221587.html Shuttleworth defends Firefox license in Ubuntu- September 15, 2008 Canonical's CEO Mark Shuttleworth has explained the presence of a Firefox 3.0 end-user license agreement in Intrepid Ibex, following developer complaints.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221426.html Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift- September 12, 2008 Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221128.html Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager- September 12, 2008 A senior program manager at Microsoft claims that Google took some open-source code from Microsoft and used it in their Chrome browser. And it's perfectly legal.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221124.html NEC joins IBM on chip project- September 11, 2008 Japan's NEC Electronics, the world's No.12 chipmaker, said on Thursday it would team up with IBM and others on next-generation microchips in a bid to beat mounting development costs.http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-220942.html |