Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Though Windows 8 may be exciting for its cross-platform access, app developers remain wary of building apps for Windows Phone 8.

In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships…

Never let it be said posting your woes on the internet doesn’t yield results. After Linn Nygaard allowed Norwegian blogger Martin Bekkelund to reveal that Amazon had not only wiped…

The Raspberry Pi is now host to the “first ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully-functional, vendor-provided fully open-source drivers”, the organisation behind the credit-card sized computer said today.

Google’s Android operating system will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft’s Windows within four years, data from research firm Gartner showed on Wednesday, underlining the massive shift in…

It was discovered in a Monday court filing from Samsung that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tentatively invalidated Apple’s bounce scroll, or “rubber-banding,” patent, possibly putting the Apple v….

Amazon Web Services’ Ashburn, Virginia, data center is giving the retailing and cloud computing giant headaches again, and Bezos can’t blame the fickleness and severity of the weather this time…

If you’re having a hard time getting excited about Windows 8, you’re not alone.  While Microsoft has steadily ramped up expectations and extolled the new operating system’s virtues for much…

It’s bad enough that when you ‘buy’ an e-book, you’re really only renting it, but now we hear that at least one e-book seller will, it has been alleged, wipe…

Recent research supports view that patent troll activity is rising — costing America a fortune in wasted legal fees and lost jobs.

Microsoft has at last released some more details on its Surface tablet – including pricing – but based on what we’ve seen so far, Apple and Android-tablet makers don’t have…

Microsoft has suffered a worse than expected 24% fall in profits, but chief executive Steven Ballmer countered by promising a “new era” for the world’s largest software company as it…

Apple has lost an appeal over a UK ruling that said Samsung fondleslabs don’t copy iPad’s design and the fruity firm better put out an ad that says so.

Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog patient-monitoring equipment and other software systems, at times rendering…

Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties meet each other…