Security concerns have kept the Australian Tax Office (ATO) from adopting open source software, according to the agency's CIO Bill Gibson.
The first iPhone Trojan has been seen in the wild, according to security vendors.
Governments in Asia need to bring data breach laws in line with Japan and Korea to ensure businesses improve the security of customer data, according to a senior CA executive.
SWsoft has released a smaller-scale, less expensive version of its Virtuozzo software in an effort to encourage new users of the virtualization product, the company plans to announce on Wednesday.
Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.
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The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.
Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, local developers rank among the world's best.
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop.
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
Linux kernel developer Harald Welte talks about the challenges of single-handedly tackling companies that violate the GPL.
Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
Intel is taking a software approach to increase the performance of its 64-bit Itanium processor when running 32-bit applications.
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.
The co-designer of the Itanium 2 chip has formally detailed its plans for the processor.
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