the State of Flux

A lot of people have openly criticized Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, but a Senator in Texas has taken it to a whole new level.
According to the San Antonio Express News, Senator Juan Hinojosa has attached a rider to the bill approving the State’s budget that will require government departments to get written approval before [...]

The people at MacHeist have just released the third edition of their famous software bundle for Mac users.
This year’s bundle features a core lineup of a dozen award winning and popular apps, games and utilities that represent the cream of the crop from the Mac development community. Whether you’re interested in cooking a meal, [...]

The CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Open Source Business Conference this week.
At a pre-conference activity last night he encouraged the various open source vendors to make the most of the current economic climate and get out there and start knocking on doors, referring to his [...]

Australia’s third largest Internet Service Provider, iiNet, has issued a press release confirming that they have dropped out of the Federal Government’s internet filter trial.
Managing Director Michael Malone, who has been stating throughout the entire process that they only agreed to participate in the trial to demonstrate just how flawed the idea is, had some [...]

Oracle Corporation has just announced positive results for Q3-09. So positive in fact, that they’re throwing in a 5 cent dividend for shareholders.
Oracle also announced today that its Board of Directors intends to pay a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share, or $0.20 per share annually, on its common stock.
This is the first [...]

A lot has been said over the last few months about the “Great Wall of Australia” - the current government’s attempt at internet censorship.
Currently being trialled by six of the country’s smaller internet service providers, the whole process has been nothing but a case of one piece of bad publicity after another.
Earlier this week, the [...]