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The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a functio...

I've written about the growing interest in HTML 5 a couple of times, and there is a parallel discussion around the role, if any, of Flas...

The Ogg sound and video formats finally seem to be gaining some traction; the only problem is that few of the major sites employ it - Flash ...

One of the heartening trends in openness recently has been the increasing, if belated, release of non-personal government data around the wo...

I had an interesting chat this morning with Mike Shaver, VP, Engineering at Mozilla, about the imminent Firefox 3.5. Its launch takes place ...

Here's the good news : Hemlock is a new web development framework, focused on allowing easy development of real-time, many-to-many apps....

As well as being a great coder, RMS is a fine writer (he made a number of excellent suggestions when I sent him rough drafts of the relevant...

One of the seminal publications of recent years was the Whole Earth Catalog, which has attained almost mythic status in hacker circles. Now...

Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details. '...

I'm not the world's biggest fan of Flash, but there's no denying an open version would at least be better than a closed one. He...

Here's that “open” meme again: Interactive agencies, ad technology firms and software firms joined with Akamai to build a best practices...

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...well, at least as far as I'm concerned: Apple, continuing its reliance on open-source technologies, is using an open-source project c...

Talking of wisdom of crowds, here 's one of my favourite sites, TheyWorkForYou, attempting to harness it in order to make politics more ...

...and I will infect the world: Symantec has warned of a security hole in Adobe's Flash Player that is already being exploited by web s...

A decade ago, I and others started wittering on about the Microsoft monoculture - the fact that practically everyone was using the same OS, ...

OMNow is a foundation dedicated to the development, support and empowerment of an open media infrastructure. Upon this infrastructure stand ...

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More details on the Elonex £100 ultraportable: Elonex claims the whole caboodle is optimised for the Linux software it runs. The Linux is D...

Another reason to hate Flash: Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restri...