Search engine Google is filing patents to help improve its search technologies so it can provide more relevant results.
A recent copyright battle has resulted in a data blackout, cutting thousands of people off from the largest online database, CDDB. The legal dispute could affect a variety of communities throughout the Internet, from so-called open-source programming projects to comments archived on online bulletin boards.
Totalitarianism. Urban pathology. The death of creativity. These are the fears that keep John Perry Barlow, co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation, awake at night.
The steady trickle of new e-commerce legislation has markedly increased the risks for e-business. Will firms outsource to hedge their bets?
We asked readers to respond with an email indicating what they thought about the government's plan to filter internet content at the ISP level the response was overwhelming.
Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Additional reading: Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux
Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.
Is all the talk about flexibility, choice and eliminating customer lock-in just an idealised view of open-source software?
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