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By Jared Newman, PCWorld Feb 15, 2012 8:57 AM LightSquared’s plans to revolutionize the wireless industry with a broadband network may have been dealt a death blow by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC believes that LightSquared should not be allowed to operate an LTE network near frequencies used by GPS because of concerns [...]
The Document Foundation on Tuesday announced the availability of LibreOffice 3.5, which it described as the third major release of the open-source productivity suite derived from the OpenOffice.org codebase. LibreOffice is backed by companies such as Red Hat and Google. The Document Foundation was formed in September 2010 by some OpenOffice.org community members after they [...]
If you run a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or hosted professional blog services like WordPress VIP (which is what TechCrunch uses). If you?re a smaller site out on the open web, you [...]
Folks who are unhappy with TweetDeck’s decision to eliminate support for LinkedIn should take a look at Sobees Desktop. This slick-looking application offers an easy way to manage Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts. Still in beta, this “social media manager” still has some kinks to work out, but shows plenty of potential. Sobees Desktop lets [...]