Starting today handset manufacturer Kogan began accepting pre-orders for the second Android phone, the Kogan Agora Pro, which makes its debut in Australia for $399 AU ($256 US). Unlike T-Mobile's G1, read more » DiscussBury
IBM and Canonical Thursday announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of Ubuntu Linux that they say is far cheaper than running Microsoft's Office read more » DiscussBury
A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirat read more » DiscussBury
The new Opera Mail provides several new features. These include a low bandwidth mode the new Follow/Ignore feature allows users to set a contact to ignore or to follow people most important to you. A read more » DiscussBury
Rafe Needleman talks about three nifty new startups at TechCrunch50 - Rate Surfer (watches your credit cards for rate changes), Gazaro (finds sales), and Kangalope (tracks events you are interested in). read more » DiscussBury
Clint Ecker of ars technica announces that they have made some changes that will improve the ways that readers can give them feedback on their work. Starting today the discussion links on articles will send you to a page where you can easily join the discussion about the article. read more » DiscussBury
Steven McMurray writes, "The security the business needs and the flexibility it wants are often at odds. Are AD security compliance assurance tools the answer? Maybe, but policy must come first." read more » DiscussBury
Ellen Messmer writes, "Companies that handle credit cards can expect to see revised security rules released in early October, according to the group responsible for maintaining the Payment Card Industry security standard for storage and processing of credit and debit cards." read more » DiscussBury
