There is a war going on in the world of software, and it gets bloodier and more intense by the day. In the blue corner is the defending heavyweight champion, the undefeated, seemingly unstoppable American giant that is Microsoft. In the red corner, the plucky pretender hopes to put up a fight. That challenger is the combined forces of Open Software. For as far back as anyone can remember, when it comes to PCs, Windows and related Microsoft software have reined supreme over the world. Bill... [2008-05-08]

Requirements Engineering, Object-oriented programming, Cache ObjectScript, Java. These pieces of software terminology might have stopped many readers dead in their tracks. Unsurprisingly, really - they hardly set the pulse racing. Software suffers from bad press, bad vibes and a very poor public image, but without it, our computers are just whirring fans, bleeps and circuit boards. Try sending a text message on your mobile phone or checking the football results online with no software. In the mo... [2008-04-07]

  In every family, no matter how proud and harmonious-looking on the outside, there is a relative that nobody really likes to talk about. Perhaps he is an embarrassing uncle who always tells uncomfortably dirty jokes, a female cousin who dresses a little too provocatively for her age or a tearaway nephew who is well-known to the local police. The Korean IT industrial family holds itself in quite a lofty esteem, and perhaps rightly so. However, although the hardware industry and Internetbase... [2008-04-07]