Google's open-source approach to Android is a key reason that it is quickly gaining ground on closed-source competitors like Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry.

The social networking and voting site is migrating from the MySQL database to Cassandra, an open source non-relational database.

Over at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook.

Microsoft plans to release for download via its Codeplex site a free, open-source analytics framework for Silverlight the week of March 15.

It's not a joke, it's real! Ex-Sun open source veteran Simon Phipps has been elected to the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative...

Network World: "There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given...

Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding...

A fistful of phones running Google’s open-source OS are set to launch next month, giving Android a boost while Microsoft waits for Windows Phone 7.

Claims Conservative government would cap tech +£100m contracts Shadow chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne claimed today that the Conservative party, if elected to form...

Business Insider is running a slideshow feature on "How to run a company that engineers actually want to work for." It should come as little...

Imagine this with Bing inside. It’s easy if you try. If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now.

Database Journal: "For most of the Web era, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated the database landscape.

At the Open Source and the Cloud event next week we'll be discussing how open source and cloud work and play together.

The VAR Guy: "When the Open Source Business Conference starts March 17 in San Francisco, The VAR Guy will be watching and listening closely for...

Lucid Imagination, the Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr, has announced that it has secured...