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Little by little, Microsoft is opening the door to the room that holds its free and open source software (FOSS) strategy. The latest sliver of light, as noted in a Fortune magazine report, reveals the claim that FOSS violates 235 of Microsoft's patents ...

Joost, an Internet television service that promises high-quality streaming of licensed TV content, got a big hand Thursday from industry heavyweights CBS and Viacom. The two companies, along with three other venture capital firms, have invested a collective US$45 million, Joost reported ...

Leading scientific institutions from around the world have collaborated on one the largest Web projects to date: a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of plants and animals on Earth in a free online resource called "Encyclopedia of Life." ...

Sun Microsystems is previewing a new family of Java-based solutions for creating and deploying rich Internet applications (RIA) for use on mobile handsets, set-top boxes, PC desktops and anywhere else the Java Runtime Environment is deployed ...

There are two main camps of software developers that dominate the world today: those that work primarily in a Microsoft .Net framework and those that work primarily in a J2EE (aka "Java EE") framework ...

Dell has jumped on board the Microsoft-Novell collaboration to deliver Suse Linux to enterprise customers ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a summary Friday of its latest report on global warming. The report, gleaned from the help of 2,000 scientists, calls for the world to cut emissions of CO2 and shift energy sources to renewable fuels ...

On the surface, the recent brouhaha with Digg and the HD DVD encryption key posted on the site seems to be about cracking the code to let people copy movies. While most people may think digital rights management (DRM) is a pain in the butt and a waste of time in the effort to fight illegal copying for commercial gain, they tend to have little interest -- even the generally tech-savvy community of Digg users -- in learning how to copy their own HD DVDs...

In today's world of application development, software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects face an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago ...

VMware has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its planned initial public offering ...

IBM is working to turn its System z mainframe computer into an online 3-D gaming platform ...

A European team of astronomers has discovered what may be the most Earth-like planet outside of our solar system, potentially capable of having liquid water and extraterrestrial life ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft have recorded the first 3-D images of the sun, giving scientists and space weather experts a much-improved ability to monitor and predict solar storms that can disrupt communications satellites, interfere with widely-used GPS systems, and knock out electrical power grids ...

The maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, Research In Motion (RIM), plans to let Windows Mobile-based devices run virtual BlackBerry applications. RIM will offer the new software solution later this year for select devices that run on Windows Mobile 6 ...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Friday that details what they consider key privacy problems with Google's and DoubleClick's pending merger ...

Internet search engine leader Google reported massive quarterly financial gains Thursday, posting a net income of US$1 billion in the first quarter of 2007, up from $592 million in the first quarter of 2006, and blowing past Wall Street's expectations ...

Internet auction house eBay on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates by delivering US$377.2 million in earnings for the first quarter of this year, a massive 52 percent leap ...

In the battle to bridge the world's digital divide, the world's largest software company will offer a special suite of Microsoft solutions to children in developing nations for a rock-bottom price of US$3. The program is an expansion of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential initiative and its Partners in Learning program ...

Yahoo reported first quarter net earnings down 11 percent from Q1 of last year as the global Internet brand faces stiff competition from search-based advertising leader Google ...

With near-simultaneous announcements on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Adobe have started a turf war over the future of Internet video and next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) solutions ...