It’s a battle going on across many large corporations: should they manage remote servers via Open Secure Shell freeware or commercial SSH products? It’s a battle going on across many large ...

Unfortunately for Oregon men’s basketball (4-4, 0-1 Big Ten), this four game skid has been in the making for the duration of the early season. In... Computer users may spend hundreds of dollars to ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Being a student typically means living a frugal lifestyle and pinching the pennies wherever you can. While you might need to spring for a new laptop or smartphone, paying for software is one expense ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

Does anybody know of, or recommend, an open source solution for dealing with PDF files? I need to extract basic information from PDFs, as well as the contained text. There seems to be a package out ...

Australian Defence Force (ADF) and U.S. military personnel work side-by-side in the Air Operations Centre (AOC) during exercise Talisman Saber 07. The U.S. Pacific Command is working with the ADF, ...

This week, the U.S. government unveiled its official Federal Source Code policy. Here is, in my opinion, the key excerpt from the announcement: “The policy, which incorporates feedback received during ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...