Monthly Archives: September 2007

IBM Lotus Symphony available for free

Posted on 19 Sep 2007 by avinash

IBM has just released a “new” free office suite (word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software) called IBM Lotus Symphony. Joel Spolsky thinks that this is a non-event and that the software will fail to get a large number of users. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Apple, Education, Linux, Technology | 19 Comments

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site

Posted on 18 Sep 2007 by avinash

The New York Times will stop charging for accessing parts of its web site including 20 years of archive (from 1987 onwards). The reason is (I quote): “The business model for advertising revenue, versus subscriber revenue, is so much more … Continue reading →

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Posted in News, Technology, Web | 11 Comments

Alternative languages for the Java VM

Posted on 18 Sep 2007 by avinash

According to Wikipedia, A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a set of computer software programs and data structures which implements a specific virtual machine model. This model accepts a form of computer intermediate language, commonly referred to as Java bytecode, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Programming, Technology | 7 Comments