IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

truesaer writes "I'll be spending all of next year backpacking through South America.

Has Microsoft suddenly awakened to open source? (OStatic)
Amazon delivers Kindle for PC — works great on a netbook (jkOnTheRun)
Battery startup ActaCell lassos cool $1M from Texas (Earth2Tech)

As the web rapidly moves toward  real-time information, the future of the web is box computing, where you can power up a netbook or mobile phone and immediately pull up a search box without opening a

An anonymous reader writes "I have just moved overseas on a 2-year working holiday visa and so I picked up a netbook for the interim, an MSI Wind U100 Plus running WinXP. I love it to bits.

An anonymous reader alerts us to an interesting development that Kaspersky Labs stumbled across.

True Vox writes "My fiance and I have recently taken interest in City of Heroes (she's currently got a character on my account).

Santa was apparently good to Amazon.com this year; the e-tailer says its 14th holiday (shopping) season was its best ever, though it doesn’t offer any data to back up that cheery claim.

jcatcw writes "Brian Nadel's ThinkPad R50 just hit its fifth birthday, and the years haven't been kind to it. When it was new, the notebook was reliable and fast.