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Web site operators and bloggers will get free Web hosting, including all advertising revenue from their sites, with a new service called "OpenServing" from the for-profit Wikipedia companyWikia ...

Fortify Software and theFindBugs Java error detection project this week unveileda collaborative effort aimed at zapping the bugs of open source softwarecode written in Java ...

Microsoft's Open XML office software format, pushed by the tech giant to compete with the Open Document Format (ODF), cleared a standards hurdle this week, winning approval from the Ecma international standards body ...

Intel showed off its latest WiMax Connection 2300 chipset in Hong Kong this week, aimed at extending both the range and capacity of 802.11 or WiFi wireless networks ...

With reported fiscal fourth quarter 2006 revenue of US$245 million,Novell missed Wall Street estimates and expectations this week, causing the software and services company stock price to slip more than 9 percent ...

The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC), an effort spearheaded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte aimed at delivering functional, educational laptop computers to children in developing nations, is looking to wealthier nations to buy its computers for those in need ...

Novell is working with Microsoft and other developers to create bidirectional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice and Microsoft Office ...

IBM announced this week that 372 new Linux on Power applications were released in 2006, yielding a total of 2,500 tested Linux-based solutions available for the Power processor platform ...

Despite its increasing use on enterprise servers and on company desktops, the Linux OS is perhaps moving fastest in the mobile space ...

Novell unveiled its new Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) this week, completing a shift of Novell workgroup solutions, particularly NetWare, over to the Suse Linux platform ...

Novell has pulled out of theopen source Hula Project, a community development effort that it kicked off early last year to compete with e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solutions such asMicrosoft's Exchange andIBM's Domino servers ...

Opera Software is singing a new tune with its updated Mini 3.0 browser, released on Tuesday. It brings photo sharing and social networking functionality to the Norwegian company's free mobile phone mini browser ...

The French parliament this week announced that its 1,000-plus desktops will be running Linux andopen source applications beginning in June 2007, ending the governmental body's reliance on Microsoft Windows ...

Taking advantage of open source developer dissatisfaction with Novell's recent partnership and patent deal with Microsoft,Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth invited Novell's OpenSuse community members to defect to the Ubuntu Linux operating system ...

Microsoft andNovell, participants in a recent historic Windows-Linux technology- and patent-sharing pact, are having some differences of opinion over the existence of Microsoft technology in the Linux operating system ...

Red Hat-owned JBoss is releasing two technologies aimed at broadening the open source application server and middleware market offerings, to serve as a more complete stack of open source software at the heart of a services oriented architecture (SOA) ...

Cornell University researchers have created a robot capable of self-awareness, learning and adapting -- all keys to the intelligence and technology needed for robots to function in adverse and changing environments ...

Red Hat says it is ready to unveil its biggest release in two years. Developers and users of the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have packed on more than 1,000 new components for stability, security and virtualization, among other features, according to the company ...

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has explained how the batteries of portable electronic devices could be wirelessly -- and safely -- recharged ...

Mozilla claims that the anti-phishingmeasures in its Firefox Web browser are superior to those of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), based on a report released Wednesday by software testing companySmartWare ...