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Further proof , if any were needed, that blogs have entered the mainstream: When the curtain falls on the final performance of English Natio...

I haven't been using Second Life much recently, but I wasn't sure why. Now I know. I've just tried the WindLight First Look Vi...

One of the most innovative and successful aspects of Firefox has been its distributed marketing approach centred on the SpreadFirefox site. ...

Last year I wrote a review of the open source systems management sector. At that time, it was highly fragmented, symptomatic of the very e...

It used to be said that open source software does not scale - a reflection of both its immaturity at the time, and of the pious hopes of the...

Given the centrality of search to the way we use the Internet, it's surprising that we're still stuck with a few file-types - essent...

Although my Arabic is, shall we say, jejune, there have been rare occasions when I've wanted to search for Arabic words in Arabic script...

Here's a thoughtful post : Somehow it seemed that blogging just isn't that hot anymore. The feeling has been exacerbated by the late...

I have to admit that I hate Sony computers. I bought a Vaio portable once, and it was awful in just about every respect - overpriced, weird...

Tim on mobile openness : On the opening day of Mobile Internet World in Boston, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web told a pa...

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: Rebel Code ....in Catalan : Una història apassionant que ens explica com un grup d'...

Everybody knows that GNU/Linux absolutely dominates the top 500 supercomputing listings: in the latest survey it notches up an 85% share (W...

Carl Malamud has done it again : Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of ...

In the nicest possible way , of course: Dell and Sun Microsystems are set to announce that Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris operating syste...

Now why on earth would Yahoo be doing this ? Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it will be the first in th...

Here's an important straw in the wind : Content-oriented Facebook Applications may now easily be developed using the Alfresco platform. ...

Flickr has reached its two billionth picture : and that's just the beginning....

Hm, not my idea of opening up : EMC is inviting independent software vendors, system integrators and channel partners to help develop, integ...

New one on me: The University of Openess is a self-institution for independent research, collaboration and learning. Find out more about th...

Nobody reads the manual, right? Well, here's one that people probably will want to read on the fine Wikileaks site: it's for Guant...

"It is not reasonable, or legal, for anybody, fan or otherwise, to take an author's hard work, re-organize their characters and plo...

It's a truism that there are more clever people out there than in here, wherever "here" may be. So it makes sense to try to ta...

I don't really understand mobile, but I do understand its importance. So the news that the British company Volantis will be releasing...

Not that I egosurf or anything, you understand, but I happened to notice that somebody was linking to me: glyn moody wrote an interesting p...

Well spotted by GigaOM: one of the key components of Android is WebKit : WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the na...