I am ashamed to use proprietary software, Feb 14, 2008

Krishnakant Mane says that the freedom and flexibility provided by open source software enables him to work with a variety of interfaces and is integral to his work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

FROM his hot, dusty, locust-plagued property in the NSW outback, a software engineer who goes by the name Quozl is doing his bit to help educate 1.5 billion of the world's poorest children.

Taiwan's BenQ is showing off a new user interface on an ultramobile PC that it plans to start marketing in the second quarter of this year, a spokeswoman for the company said Tuesday.

When the iPhone (AAPL) appeared last year, fans hailed it as the first handheld product to deliver a full Internet experience. While there was some truth to that claim, the iPhone is just the beginning. Equipped with more advanced semiconductors, handhelds—including the iPhone—may soon equal or surpass PCs as tools for work and play.

Why have a key to open your front door when you can have an RFID tag implanted in your arm that will do the trick? Ever since he was a young boy, Jonathan Oxer has been fascinated by manipulating electronic devices to his mischievous ends.

Researchers at a major security vendor are exploring the extent to which Linux systems - especially servers - are involved in the botnet plague.

Red Hat put some muscle behind its intention to make its JBoss middleware as ubiquitous in the enterprise as its Linux software on Wednesday, committing new sales, marketing, and technical resources to accelerating the adoption of JBoss among the largest corporations.

At the fifth annual JBoss user conference, James Whitehurst shares some of his vision and explains what it's like to switch from an airline to the open-source industry

Mozilla has released a third beta version of Firefox 3, bringing about 1,300 changes to the widely used open-source Web browser.

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