Many people complain that renting computer power from Amazon and other cloud companies is too expensive. Though the cloud is a great way to get a startup off the ground or run a we[...]

The cloud computing sales pitch is seductive because the cloud offers many advantages. There are no utility bills to pay, no server room staff who want the night off, and no crazy [...]

Facebook, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and other leading IT users think the open-source movement is ready to shake up the hardware industry the way Linux did in software. In the past, [...]

The idea that Google’s Android mobile software is both “free” and open-source is so often repeated that it is virtually an article of faith online. There’s [...]

The Open Invention Network (OIN), a consortium of major technology companies formed in 2005 to minimize patent-aggression against free and open-source software projects, plans to a[...]

President Barack Obama has met with executives from technology giants, including Apple and Google, one day after a judge ruled the National Security Agency's secret collection [...]

Contributing to free/open-source software is one of the best ways to learn how to be a better hacker, both technically and ethically. Most devs end up using a huge amount of open-s[...]

Online retailer Flipkart is inviting software coders to build new applications on its technology platforms in a move the company says is designed to create a wave of innovation tha[...]

  The U.S. Justice Department has told a secret surveillance court that it opposes a request from technology companies to reveal more about the demands they receive for user i[...]

Google Chrome OS on VMWare (Photo credit: berrytokyo)   The new algorithm, codenamed Hummingbird, is the first major upgrade for three years. It has already been in use for ab[...]