Articles by Jack M. Germain

Few, if any, photo viewing apps on any platform provide a perfectphoto management experience. However, F-Spot Photo Management for Gnomegives Linux users a fairly complete set of photo tools F-Spot ranks among the most well-known photo appsfor Linux. In many ways it is similar to Google's repackaged PicasaPhoto Organizer and the popular GIMPphoto p...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources...

Screenlets bring a collection of fun things and useful apps to addfunctional eye candy to the Linux desktop with little or no resourcedrain on the computer ...

If you are looking for a superior text editor, your search might just begin and end with a nifty program called "Geany." One of my biggest concerns when I switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux was finding an adequate replacement for my favorite text editor. For years, I used a commercial program called "TextPad," but it was a Windows-only produc...

A combination of aging computers and their operating systems, alongwith reduced hardware prices, contributed to higher worldwide shipmentsfor the leading PC makers in the closing quarter of 2009, according to two industry reports Worldwide PC shipments increased 15.2 percent for last year's fourthquarter over the same period in 2008, according to t...

Jaspersoft on Tuesday released its latest offering aimed at helping businesses make sense of the piles of data they accumulate on a regular basis. The new Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition provides organizations with a package of business analytics and reporting functionalities. Company officials also announced the availability of an upgrade of its fl...

StarTech.com's new DisplayPort KVM Switch helped me solve a computingproblem I did not realize I had. The company's KVM Switch providesdirect connections to monitors and computers without using aconverter ...

Coverity cut its startup teeth seven years agotrying to figure out how to commercialize static analysis and softwarecode integrity. The company, whose software developer tools are usedby some of the biggest firms in the industry, released in NovemberCoverity 5, a completely reengineered software analysis solution Many companies are still looking fo...

MIPS Technologies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday its plan to develop a new line of set-top boxes with Android inside ...

Tremont Electric may very well be travelingalong the same path once crossed by the Little Engine That Could. Thetwo-year-old startup is headed where several other power generationcompanies want to go but have yet to get off the research anddevelopment tracks If the inventor and developer of the nPower PEG (Personal EnergyGenerator), Aaron LeMieux, ...

Using the latest version of the Opera Web Browser (version 10.10) is like meeting up with an oldfriend and finding out he or she now has issues with the relationship Opera 10.10 has several impressive new features, but a few glitchesreally limit the usefulness of this version. In fact, the only way forme to continue using Opera was to reinstall an ...

Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident The firms that can deliver this product more accurately and more rapidly grow their reputations a...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Ubuntu commercial sponsor Canonical, announced on Thursday that he is stepping aside to develop cloud products and begin new partnerships. He named Chief Operating Officer Jane Silber to take his place as CEO of Canonical ...

Google finally released a beta version of its Chrome Web browser forLinux on Dec. 8, slightly more than one year after releasing itsChrome browser for Microsoft Windows. The wait was worth it,especially given the more than 300 extensions already available tocustomize the new browser Because Linux distributions are numerous, Google ported the Chrome...

Lunascape, a newcomer to the growing field of Web browsers, released its official/stable version of Lunascape 6 Orion on Friday, a little more than one month after introducing the Alpha version Orion is an innovative browser that could easily win over users from popular browsers Firefox and Opera. Orion's features can change the competing browser l...

The Boxee video-on-demand software maker aimsto change the way consumers get free movie and TV entertainment from the Internet with its first hardware venture, called "Boxee Box." The open source software company debuted its new hardware device at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday. The new device, essentially a TV set-top...

Sun Microsystems this week released VirtualBox 3.1, including several key enterprise features aimed at maintaining minimal downtime on virtualservers ...

Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10,otherwise known as "Karmic Koala," could be for the Linux communitywhat the recently released Windows 7 OS from Microsoft is to theWindows world. Of course, this latest release that replaced Ubuntu9.04 did not have as much to do in bettering its predecessor as didWindows 7 had in overcoming Vista Still, no operating system ...