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Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand
PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here
Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties?
IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages
Microsoft Research Shows Off New Projects On College Recruiting Tour
Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen
SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day
Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good"
When Software Leaks (and What Really Goes Down)
ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication
TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source
How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding
Apps That Officially Support Wine
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated
Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps
Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free
Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail
30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
Linux 2.6.27 Out
Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store
An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro
Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files?
Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?
Measure Anything with a Camera and Software
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
Most Security Products Fail To Perform
Open Source Speech Recognition
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook
Opera 10.0 Released
Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability
P2P Program to Match Files to Product Origin
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk
The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World
Visualizing Open Source Contributions
Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game
Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects
ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox
Wayland, a New X Server For Linux
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux
Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0
Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project
Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty
iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition
Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September
Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs
IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
Linux Now an Equal Flash Player
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?
Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7
Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free
Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld
Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09
Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet)
Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do
FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign
OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System
(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?
The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems
OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps
A Software License That's Libre But Not Gratis?
Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light
Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack
A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets
Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software?
Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers
Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web
Modern LaTeX Replacement?
Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?
How Do You Document Technical Procedures?
Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit
Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes
IE Market Share Drops Below 70%
Congress Endorses Open Source For Military
Dirac 1.0.0 Released
MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL
Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions
Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging
Secure File Storage Over Non-Trusted FTP?
How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa
NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac
Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay
GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait
Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester
Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests
OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows
Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain
Google Pushes Open Source OCR
Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware
Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms?
PhD Research On Software Design Principles?
Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises
BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense"
Apple Opens Up iPhone To Third-Party Browsers
Lightroom Vs. Aperture
Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack
Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report?
SGI Releases OpenGL As Free Software
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion?
Working Toward a Patent-Agnostic Open Source License
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
EU Wants To Redefine "Closed" As "Nearly Open"
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools
New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection
Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source
Opera 10.10 Released, Includes New "Unite" Tech
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
Sneak Preview of New OpenOffice 3.2
Software Piracy At the Workplace?
Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What?
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
Bruce Perens On Combining GPL and Proprietary Software
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008
45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates"
SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged
Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino
Software Speeds Response To Road Accidents
Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners
Virtualizing Cuts Web App Performance 43%
Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
Blender 2.46 Released
Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus
Sun's McNealy Wants Obama to Push Open Source
Tools For Understanding Code?
UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle
Do Software Versions Really Matter?
OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs
The Contradictory Nature of OOXML
Best OSS Systems Mgmt App You Never Heard Of
Cutting-Edge AI Projects?
KDE 4.3 Released
What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML
4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle
Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro
OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" Comes To Europe
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser
Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2
Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading?
Open Source Federal Income Tax Software
Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve
Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"
Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test
Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage
Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac
Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
Software Development Predictions For 2009
Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE
VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
The Case Against Web Apps
Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone
Microsoft Phasing Out ESP Simulation Platform?
Oracle Buy Renews Call To Spin Off OpenOffice.org
Twitter On Scala
Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts
IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP
Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?
The "Bloody Mess" That Is Intel's Poulsbo Driver
The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box
Phoenix BIOSOS?
Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released
Vim 7.2 Released
PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
2008 - Year of Linux Desktop?
10-Year Anniversary of Open Source
Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling?
South Africa Appeals ISO Decision On OOXML
Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux
2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux
An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1
Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?
FFmpeg Finally Releases Long-Awaited Version 0.5
Identifying (and Fixing) Failing IT Projects
Living Free With Linux, Round 2
Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking?