Despite having pockets of communities spread across the country, open source software (OSS) has no future in the country's budding software development business, according to a software development expert.

From MacMinute: Apple today released security updates for both Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).

Microsoft can expect thousands of extra technical support calls after the release of its security update for Windows XP this summer, according to security analysts.

The EU commission's decision about Microsoft rose some heated discussion on nearly every part of it. Let's take an accurate look at it and discuss the hows and whys of the act that is going probably to change Europe's technological assets in the near future.

Mandrakesoft proved to judges in the Parisian version of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy court earlier this week it had a viable business plan and exit strategy. Now all that remains is for the popular Linux distributor to follow through on its promise.

Here is an introduction to the style of Objective-C Cocoa and some reasons why the author at Kuro5hin hopes more programming will be done in this style in the future.

Christian Limpach imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree: NetBSD/xen. Xen is is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software. See here for more details on Xen or join the port-xen mailing list.

The O'Reilly Network has put online a few interesting development articles with subjects of Java & Lisp, Python on OSX and managed C++ on .NET.

After their recent video codec shootout article ExtremeTech now offers an audio codec one. Find out which technologies are the best for each job.

In the last decade alone, IBM scientists have announced one semiconductor breakthrough after another:

In many pro-Linux circles, it's a given that The SCO Group Inc. can't possibly win in court. Obviously, SCO disagrees.

Are you a Java or a .NET/Mono/Portable.NET developer? Then you might be interested in this competition that could help you win a prize that's worth over $3000 US.

The Io Language, has been ported to Syllable by Kas de Vos. Here is a screenshot.

Curt Brune writes: "Inside are the gems I discovered at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, including current directions in embedded Linux development, progressive silicon art, robots for science and entertainment, public transportation and the relentless drive of the economy."