PC World's Uli Diehlmann in Pictures
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Photos through the years of PC World's long-serving Test Center director, who died last week of cancer.
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A look at the life the Microsoft co-founder before the internet revolution
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Ask.com&#8217;s New Research &#038; Development Center in Germany Ask.com is forming a new R&#038;D center in Hamburg, Germany and the company has also announced the appointment of Eric Heymann as director of global content acquisition for Ask.com; &#8216;The former head of technology at Seekport, Heymann will lead the development team in Hamburg.&#8217; The Hamburg team will focus [...]
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Sebastian from Germany is looking for a  high definition (HD) television set, IT engineer Armin is after  a media-centre computer, software developer Jens wants a  digital photoframe, and Italian civil servant Anna a new phone.
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Here's a glimpse at just a few of the products and projects Linux Journal editors are buzzing about this month:  Zonbu PC 1.0 (upgrade) read more
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.
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A walk through Intel's booth at CES revealed some new ultra-mobile PCs, some of which run on the Linux platform.
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 8--Nicholas Negroponte took some time recently for an e-mail interview with Mercury News Columnist Dean Takahashi about his low-cost laptop project.
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A question lobbed by a writer covering this week's D: All Things Digital conference drew a comparison from Steve Jobs between Windows and hell. As for Apple's role as a significant developer in that diorama, ice cubes are involved.
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Reporter Alexander Gelfand has his likeness immortalized with new 3-D printing technology. Photographs by Ryan Brenizer.
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Linux is gaining ground with companies but Windows will continue to dominate consumer PCs in the near future. That is the non-contentious conclusion of the latest IDC research.
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Bestride this An amateur cryptographer from Germany who beat the worldâs first programmable digital computer Colossus in a code-breaking challenge has been honoured for his achievement.â¦
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Welcome to a new on-line column here at LinuxJournal.com, "Linux Products Insider".  I'm James Gray, Products Editor at Linux Journal.  After the spam has been deencrusted and hucksters repelled, I'll use this space to update you on the latest and greatest products and services that I find using my secret channels.  This week, I had the chance to take part in a press conference with Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu.  Read on to learn why Shuttleworth's is so fired up about the new Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" (available this week), as well as why he thinks Ubuntu is so darned successful.  read more
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PARIS The open-source computer system known as Linux won a tough battle over Microsoft earlier this year when the city of Munich decided to change the operating software of 14,000 government computers, despite the personal intervention of Steve Ballmer
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The creator of Photoshop, Acrobat and Creative Suite continues to impress.
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From Google wonders to laptop reviews to iPhone torture tests, here's what the Web was reading and watching on PCWorld.com this year.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC