Lenovo says it will provide customer support for the hardware and the operating system, while Novell will be responsible for updates. The lowest-end model will be $949, and both models are available beginning Tuesday.

Novell SLED 10 will be available on the ThinkPad T61 and ThinkPad R61 with Intel Centrino processors. Operating system features include the
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Rather than hunt, if you have the manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, try doing a find for the word “password”. Unfortunately, routers are complicated and there are many passwords. The password to login to the router is not the PPoE password, or the PPTP password or the L2TP password. It also has nothing to [...]

On Thursday, Microsoft removed the beta tag from the Windows Live SkyDrive service. More importantly, it upped the amount of free online storage to 5GB, giving users roughly the same amount of storage that comes on a new Eee PC. That’s up from a recent cap of 1GB.

I see the launch of SkyDrive as a [...]

SAN DIEGO–Who needs a computer to access the many social networks people are members of these days?

While thousands, or even millions, of people regularly switch between services like Facebook, imeem, MySpace, and others, it can be cumbersome to do all that switching.

That’s what Xumii, which presented at DemoFall Monday afternoon, has set out to obviate.

The [...]

Xinhua and a Zhejiang province news website report on the spread of “Red Heart China” on IM and e-mail platforms.
A Chinese news story about the spread of patriotic and pro-Olympic symbolism on QQ.
(Credit: Zhejiang News Center)
The Zhejiang News Center link, auto-translated here, says the word is spreading via QQ, a top instant message platform in [...]

While Sony did not unveil any new hardware at the company’s E3 press conference, new photos are beginning to show up around the Net that lead us to believe they’re hard at work on an updated version of the PSP.
Kotaku reports that forums members from PSPChina BBS have captured the rumored PSP-3000, identified by [...]

(Credit: Panasonic)
When Panasonic announced its first interchangeable-lens camera, the Lumix DMC-G1, it said the camera would cost less than $800. Today it’s official: $799.95 with the 14-45mm f3.5-5.6 (28-90mm equivalent) lens.
That price puts it in direct competition with inexpensive dSLR models like the Nikon D60 and Canon Rebel XS; it’s a bit smaller compared to [...]

Today we are opening up the user voting on the 2008 Webware 100. This is our yearly awards program where Webware users vote for their favorite Web 2.0 apps. In the 2007 Webware 100, there were more than 480,000 votes cast. And this year we have an even stronger lineup of finalists, so we [...]

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Yesterday, a US federal court of appeals handed open source a significant victory. An earlier district court ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer had put open-source licensing on shaky ground by treating the Artistic License as a contract, with some injurious readings on likely remedies under an open-source license.
As Mark Radcliffe details, the Jacobsen ruling [...]

The Live Mesh service that Microsoft unveiled Tuesday night is a peek of what Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has been working on all these months.

In its initial incarnation, Live Mesh is mostly a file-sharing and folder-synchronization service, as well as a nice, easy way to access a PC remotely. Down the road though, it’s [...]