Sun's Ian Murdock is one of the more lucid thinkers on open source strategy at Sun.

Nearly every recent FCC decision seems to promote incumbents instead of consumers. That contradicts the regulator's raison d'etre, says guest columnist Greg Rosston.

Microsoft wants to bring an enriched mobile experience to the developing world. Microsoft has been doing little of interest in mobile for years, but has talked about it even less. This is a chance for Microsoft to innovate. Whether it will is, of cours

Noble Environmental Power files to raise as much as $375 million in an initial public offering. Can wind power whip up a storm on Wall Street?

Microsoft announces it plans to appeal the European Commission's historic fine, which dinged the Redmond giant for failing to comply with hits previous antitrust orders.

The latest data suggests that energy prices are likely going higher. Now the big question is whether IT will be ready to handle the new demands put on it by more telecommuters.

Appeals court says lower court erred in definition of "terminal device" but sides with Alcatel-Lucent in dispute against Microsoft and Dell over digital speech compression tech.

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A Vietnamese language pack for the open-source Web browser has been infected with the infectious Xorer Trojan since February. A new version is now being checked.

The GPL, like Ionesco's Rhinoceros, "ne capitule pas" (won't capitulate). So long as we have a strong and vibrant GPL community, we'll have a strong and vibrant open-source community. It really is as simple as that.