Microsoft and Novell celebrated the third year of their interoperability agreement at a conference in Seattle
OpenOffice.org has copied an idea from the gaming community, after launching a mouse with programmable buttons...18 in total
Firefox is five years old today, and is celebrating the fact that almost a quarter of Internet users are now…
Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says "there's no rational argument" for preventing Oracle from acquiring all of Sun
Mozilla's open source competitor to Microsoft Outlook is to be updated with a new version of Thunderbird expected next week
Nokia may have started from the idea of a pocket computer, but this is a geek-friendly Linux smartphone that straddles…
The EC is likely to make a formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, because of the inclusion of…
Amid calls from local authorities to use open source software and cut costs, Microsoft is holding a teachers' conference in…
Microsoft may have helped its status with the open-source community by reiterating its pledge to deliver $100,000 (£60,700) to the…
Sony Ericsson has taken the wraps off its first Google Android-based device, the Xperia X10, which will go on sale…
Despite a struggling economy and public debt, the Hungarian government continues to spend millions on Microsoft licences when cheaper alternatives…
eWEEK Labs' tests show that Fedora 12 will provide the latest and greatest versions of popular open-source applications, as well…
Oracle withdraws its petition to obtain antitrust clearance to do business in Russia after its acquisition of Sun Microsystems
Motorola's attempt at an iPhone killer, dubbed the Motorola Droid, is to be launched in the US next week
Red Hat has invested in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB, to push further into IT infrastructure
Google's long-awaited mobile OS, the Android 2.0, is expected to make its first US appearance on the upcoming Motorola Droid…
The Obama administration drops proprietary software driving Whitehouse.gov for the Drupal open-source content management platform
Former MySQL business adviser Florian Mueller and members of the EC believe that Oracle owning MySQL through its acquisition of…
A Google executive said complex Web applications such as Gmail and Google Wave are paving the way for major adoption…
The Symbian Foundation says it is well on its way toward the goal of open-sourcing the Symbian OS
Digital civil liberties organisation Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman tell the EC in a…
Controversial Unix vendor The SCO Group has terminated the services of its CEO, Darl McBride, according to a filing with…
Software licences are a fiction, and open source is ready for use by every consumer, says Jeremy Ruston, BT's head…
Google reports third-quarter profit of $1.64 billion ($1bn), a 27 percent boost from its profit of $1.29 billion in the…
A national partnership has been launched today at Bletchley Park, to encourage UK local authorities to look at implementing open…
The beta of Ubuntu 9.10, otherwise known as Karmic Koala, contains the expected core open-source updates, but includes a number…
It may come as no surprise to some that GNU founder Richard Stallman has launched a stinging attack on Microsoft's…
After a bruising summer of fighting between Microsoft and open source activists, not many people took Microsoft's open source body…
Tom Steinberg, co-founder of mySociety, the site behind online tools such as TheyWorkForYou.com has agreed to help the Conservative party
The UK government's open source policy is not policed effectively, leaving UK public sector in thrall to greedy proprietary software…