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Well before search titan Google released its tool to help developers scour the Web for code and connected information, Koders was serving up software search results, starting with open source software and now spreading out to include closed code repositories as well ...

Intel this week began selling quad-core Xeon and Core2 Extreme chips, making good on its promise to deliver four-core computer processors ahead of rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ...

Despite a somewhat clumsy history with the free and open source software community, Sun Microsystems Monday opened Java to software developers under the general public license (GPL) ...

The distaste and distrust of the Microsoft-Novell partnership announced last week among some free and open source software supporters has grown to include allegations the deal may violate the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs Novell's Suse Linux operating system ...

Mozilla Foundation this week released patches for its Firefox browser, its Thunderbird e-mail client, and its SeaMonkey Internet application suite, responding to an increase in security issues accompanying the open source software's surging popularity ...

Introducing a new, more sophisticated architecture intended to spiff up and speed up high-end PC gaming, Nvidia rolled out its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) and a new media communications processor (MCP) for Intel multi-core processors this week ...

Intel this week unveiled SuiteTwo, a software bundle of Web 2.0 software services -- including collaboration, blogging, RSS (really simple syndication), search and Wiki technology -- aimed at small- and medium-size businesses ...

The last three weeks have provided the biggest news stories to hit Linux in a long time, raising many questions and stirring speculation. What doesOracle have in mind -- cutting intoRed Hat's revenue for its own profit, or weakening theenterprise Linux leader for acquisition? ...

The Mozilla Foundation, backer of the Firefox browser, will use code from Adobe to make the Flash player more flexible and interoperable with other Web scripting tools, Adobe announced this week ...

Virtualization technology upstartXenSource has announced XenEnterprise, a commercial virtualization package that supports Windows and Linux. The new product challenges VMware's dominance in the market for server virtualization, and for support and management of virtualization ...

Fulfilling the predictions of many security experts, hackers have invaded a "social networking" Web site. The German version of the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia was used to post Web links that could spread malicious code ...

Much of the focus and fight over the next draft of the GNU general public license Version 3 (GPLv3) has centered on digital rights management (DRM) and patent provisions. However, GPLv3, which is slated for final release next year, also tries to address another challenge for the free and open source software (FOSS) community: license proliferation ...

Microsoft andNovell announced this week a deal to promote and support Novell's Suse Linux alongside Windows. That's right, Microsoft will promote and support Linux -- but only as long as it's from Novell ...

There was little fanfare but far-reaching ramifications for the PC industry this week as Dell rolled out its first notebook computers powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices ...

Microsoft announced Tuesday a close technical collaboration with Zend, the programming language vendor that currently dominates Web-based scripting with the open source PHP language ...

Access this week announced a Linux and open source software application framework for mobile devices, which will be open to developers under the Mozilla Public License ...

As founder, president and chief executive officer of custom PC maker Velocity Micro, Randy Copeland has seen a lot of change over his 15 years in the business. New consoles and online play were key additions to the industry. Perhaps most significant, however, is the purchase of competitors by PC giants Dell, which bought Alienware, and more recently Hewlett-Packard, which bought Voodoo...

Sourcefire, provider of open source security software Snort and other intrusion detection and prevention solutions, filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) ...

Oracle has stirred up the tech world with the announcement of its "Unbreakable Linux" strategy. The company's announcement that it will support its own version of Red Hat Linux has already made an impact, as evidenced by Red Hat's quick response under the banner "Unfakeable Linux." ...

Ubuntu -- an increasingly popular, Debian Linux-based operating system -- just got updated by its commercial backer Canonical, giving users of the new software an improved interface, faster boot time and better security, the company said this week ...