Mozilla is readying the release of Firefox 12 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms delivering a number of improvements mostly aimed at developers, but also ushering in a less intrusive…
A Pennsylvania professor is gunning for a slice of all of Apple’s touch-based product revenues, after claiming they infringe a patent for a museum screen technology he developed 15 years…
Apple violated one of four Motorola Mobility patent rights being contested, ITC Judge Thomas Pender said in a notice posted today. The patent relates to 3G technology.
As we reported, the update breaks Outlook, Microsoft has now pulled it from Auto Update.
Microsoft has suffered a setback in the technology industry patent wars, with a US International Trade Commission judge issuing a preliminary ruling favouring rival Motorola Mobility.
Microsoft fared better than analysts anticipated in its latest financial quarter, boosted by an unexpected rise in sales of its Windows operating system for PCs. But profits dipped due to…
Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server…
Microsoft’s new Open Technologies subsidiary may be many things, but one thing it’s not is “further demonstration of Microsoft’s long-term commitment to interoperability, greater openness, and to working with open…
With Oracle choosing APIs as a legal battleground on which to tangle with Google’s Android, I’m reminded of another time when APIs were used in lieu of competitive products in…
Microsoft and Nokia can’t be too pleased about the news from Europe, where big telecoms say that the combination of Nokia hardware and Windows Phone software has been a bust….
What Microsoft has failed to deliver, however, is a really clear justification of why anybody would want to buy an ARM Windows tablet instead of sticking with an x86 device….
Computer languages and software interfaces may fall under copyright protection if Oracle succeeds in its Java lawsuit against Google. Amazingly, “copyfighters” appear to have paid little or no notice to…
It’s been clear for some time now that demand for Linux skills is increasing, and back in February a report from the Linux Foundation and careers site Dice.com suggested that…
Iceland’s push to move its public sector to open-source software has made some headway, with most of the shift seeing Windows swapped for Linux.
Over the next few days I shall be presenting some of the astonishing things that Microsoft has been saying behind closed doors in its attempt to derail truly open standards….