Software

Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world.  read more »

The growing risk of defects from increasingly complex in-house software is costing companies dearly, according to new research from IDC.  read more »

At the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Microsoft made a splashy entrance into independent game design with its new Community Games push. In short, you can develop a downloadable Xbox 360 game and submit it to Microsoft's peer-review website. If your game passes muster and makes it onto the new Community Game storefront -- which goes live with the Xbox 360 Experience dashboard update in late 2008 -- you'll get up to 70% of the revenues from sales. You'll even be able to choose the price point (200, 400, or 800 Microsoft points) when you publish the game.  read more »

He's only three months into the job, but a passion for education is what led Nick Hutton to his role as CEO of U21 Global, an educational institution focusing on graduate studies that operates on a 100 percent online environment.  read more »

Mozilla Tuesday set Friday as the ship date for the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1, the fast-track update it hopes to polish off by late this year or early in 2009.  read more »

Seven months after it first acknowledged a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft Corp. Monday officially released a patch as it rolled out the final version of a major update to the server software.  read more »

IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders.  read more »

A report from Forrester is warning customers to consider carefully how they plan to use Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server product, which they say can wreak havoc in an IT organization when used as a custom application development platform.  read more »

Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday.  read more »