Month: April 2011

One thing that's obvious about 2011 is that the excitement on my beat has shifted, from open source as a ...

What's really at issue is that i4i bought the French inventor (left) for its patent while Microsoft hired its XML ...

Just as Marbury vs. Madison showed that the Supreme Court has real power, so OpenOffice.org vs. Oracle has shown that ...

Funny how all that Texas secession talk died down once the state started burning down, y'know? http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/18/texas.forest.fires/

Every year the cost of harvesting solar and wind energy is coming down. Every year the cost of finding stuff ...

The windows are broken, the criminals are ravaging our economy, and they've corrupted every agency of government. Where is the ...

Peter Thiel is an ass. He says higher education is a bubble. The real bubble is with Goldman Sachs, and ...

The desktop has fallen to open source through Android, services have fallen through Facebook, the mainframe is falling through clouds, ...

Companies like Coca-Cola, can now create cloud projects run on their own infrastructure.

By turning a collection of projects into an ecosystem -- by integrating them so they work well together -- an ...