The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
Australian YouTube film-makers are set to make money with the expansion of the Web site's advertising program.
In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night.
Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, got on stage at a open-source conference in San Francisco and tried to find common ground with the audience.
The man dubbed the "father of the Web" says consumers need to be protected against systems that can track their activity on the Internet.
A US programmer has uncovered an e-mail address hard-coded into an archiving program that is designed to capture username and password information from users of the software..
The Microsoft-created specification OOXML is struggling to achieve the two-thirds majority backing of ISO members in order for it to become a recognised standard, the aftermath of a high-profile meeting has revealed.
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On Wednesday at Black Hat D.C. 2008, two researchers set out to see whether phishing sites were created by the "Einsteinian, ninja hackers that the media makes them out to be".
By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is now a Microsoft brand.
Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.
Linus Torvalds has revealed he's worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
Despite frequent speculation that corporate financing is dangerous to the ethos of the open source software (OSS) community, most Australian open source developers don't see payment as a primary influence on their contributions, a straw poll of attendees at Linux.conf.au in Melbourne suggests.
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