Linux

Microsoft gets I-O Data to sign Linux patent-protection license

Does a Japanese maker of network attached storage devices really need protection against U.S. patents?

Microsoft at last releases famed Red Hat/Linux virtualization drivers

The drivers have limitations and the Linux code has forked, but this is progress nonetheless.

Is Novell worth $2 billion?

Hedge fund may sell Novell off piecemeal to turn profit

Microsoft at last releases famed Red Hat/Linux virtualization drivers

The drivers have limitations and the Linux code has forked, but this is progress nonetheless.

They’re here: Cheap Android smartphones

Some of the lowest-cost Android handsets yet are rolling out now

Panasonic doesn’t want to be another TomTom, licenses Microsoft’s exFAT

Panasonic has agreed to license both the new file naming technology and the older FAT32.

Unix How To: Using nmap to Map Your Network

Welcome to the Personal Cloud, Thanks to Open Source and Pogoplug

Pogoplug makes the cloud personal, allowing you to access, share and stream files to any place and any person. Its open source foundation is what makes it possible and easy.

Smartphone OS leaves one hand free

Else, an Israeli technology company, has designed a smartphone that can be operated with one hand

Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search

The move is a reversal of an earlier pledge from Redmond