It is fair to say that Wall Street is neither a place given to bouts of whimsy, nor one inclined to tolerate that trait in others. But when executives began first learning about Linux, an operating ...

As CE (consumer-electronics) vendors vie for market share, consumers are asking designers to cram more functions into every new product or update. Users are no longer content with devices that offer ...

Intuit has been on the sidelines of open source for a long time, but seems to be jumping into the fray with a Linux Resource Center. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for ...

Andrew Smith via his past teaching at the Open University has been historically affiliated with the Linux Professional Institute. Every operating system has technical issues and Linux has not been ...

As our software becomes more Web-centric and our devices cheaper, Linux is becoming the operating system on everyone’s lips for 2009. Sorry, Microsoft [MSFT]. If ...

BEIJING--China's government said it will invest in Red Flag Software, China's largest Linux software developer, to try to curb Microsoft's dominance of the country's software market. CCIDNET ...

It's nice to see open source software driving a revolution in smartphones -- and small PCs. Google's Linux-based Android operating system powers the industry's latest must have, the Motorola Droid.

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so ...

I often come across articles and commentary from people in the open source world that Ubuntu and Canonical are making a difference in the desktop Linux space and they ...

It's a little hard to imagine an über-geek like Linus Torvalds getting the full-on rock-star treatment and having to urge an exuberant crowd to settle down, but that was just what happened at the ...