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When Canonical introduced its new Ubuntu Unity interface, a major design element was a global, universal menu that all apps would use. Things have changed. Canonical is switching back to local app menus....

I recently described the billions Facebook is paying for WhatsApp as "a king's ransom." But another shoe dro...

One alternative to buying expensive storage-area networks or other hardware-based dedicated storage is to deploy open source storage software on existing server hardware. For this test, we evaluated three such open source storage products: GlusterFS 3.3, Ceph 0.72, and Apache Hadoop 2.2.0. ...

Nokia may be making the Android X, X and XL handsets, but at the end of the day it was Microsoft's call to produce Android phones. This is bad news for Windows Phone....

Facebook just paid a king's ransom for an app many of us have probably never heard of. ...

IBM thinks that opening its middleware stack to the cloud in BlueMix will prove to be winning bet....

Joyent wants to bring Linux into its fold of advanced computing cloud services and has started offering an enterprise-supported version of the Canonical Ubuntu distribution that has been modified to take advantage of Joyent's infrastructure. "The two companies actually complement each other, from an engineering perspective," said Bryan Cantrill, Joyent senior vice president of engineering, speaking...

Like Linux before it, OpenStack is manifesting via different vendors, each a product of a different development philosophy and target market....

Want a tech job? Then polish up your Linux skills and you will be handsomely rewarded....

The first native Ubuntu smartphones are expected to be in customers' hands in 2014....

RiskIQ, an Internet security company, claims that malicious apps have grown by almost 400 percent on Google's Android Play store....

Several stories recently have spread misinformation about how Google licenses Android and its services. Here's the real story on how Android licensing works with open source and Linux....

If you were a VC, you'd be looking for a way to turn your millions into billions. If you had only ever made money by betting on proprietary corporations, you would probably conclude that open source was a poor way to win big. ...

If you were a VC, you'd be looking for a way to turn your millions into billions. If you had only ever made money by betting on proprietary corporations, you would probably conclude that open source was a poor way to win big. ...

No doubt you've seen the stat showing how much more popular Android smartphones are than iPhones in much of the world. ...

After months of often bitter debate, Ubuntu will follow Debian in using systemd instead of its own Upstart for Linux start-up and shutdown routines....

After years of talk about the Linux desktop becoming important, it finally is. But thanks to Chromebooks and Android PCs, it's not the Linux desktop we expected. ...

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code is the new resume,'" said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation . "Open source has truly become a juggernaut as of late. Within the last five years in particular it...