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This latest version of Android Jelly Bean has many good, new features for both developers and users.

The open-source OpenDaylight Software-Defined Networking project is maturing quickly.

It looks like Ubuntu Edge will reach the $32 million goal that Mark Shuttleworth set to begin building the hybrid smartphone PC. But will it have a market? Could it replace the traditional PC?

Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board.

It may be trailing LibreOffice, but OpenOffice is still alive and kicking -- now with better Microsoft Office Open XML support.

A recent business survey by RightScale shows that the cloud has become mainstream and that open-source cloud technology is leading the way.

Windows RT flopped but, seriously, is there any tablet OS that take on Android and iOS?

It only works with rooted devices, but if you have one, and you're feeling nervous, it looks like it's worth installing.

The latest Linux kernel is coming with new features and a tongue-in-cheek nickname and logo.

Google fixes Android's security problems relatively quickly, but the OEMs and carriers are painfully slow to implement them. Isn't it time for Google to take a page out of Microsoft's playbook and implement regular direct-to-user security updates?

Canonical has had good luck getting European telecomms to back Ubuntu on smartphones. But until July 11th, it hadn't managed to persuade any US carriers to back its Linux phone. Now, Verizon Wireless has joined the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. This move sets Verizon up to be the first carrier to bring the Ubuntu-Linux based smartphone to the US.

Yes, the PC market is going to hell in a hand-basket -- except for the sub-$300 market where the Linux-based Chromebook is leading the way to growth. It's no secret that the PC market is awful. With tablets on one side and Windows 8's failure to gain market success on the other, worldwide PC sales have dropped more than 10-percent in the last quarter alone. According to retail sales analysis firm NPD there is one bright spot though: low-priced notebooks with Linux-based, Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks.

The Xen hypervisor has just had a new release under its new management, The Linux Foundation.

Microsoft's IIS, after falling behind the open-source NGINX Web server, is now racing neck and neck for the number two Web server spot well behind leader Apache.

Google has found a fix for a vulnerability in Android's security model that could allow attackers to convert 99 percent of all applications into Trojan malware.

SUSE Studio lets anyone quickly create their own customized Linux distribution and now SUSE is willing to give these distros commercial support.

XenServer, the first major open-source hypervisor, returns to its open-source roots with its latest Citrix release.

Red Hat's latest community Linux, Fedora 19, is out and ready for cutting edge Linux users and developers.

The open-source software foundation announced that Jim Jagielski, co-founder of the Apache Foundation and a Red Hat consulting software engineer, would be taking over as its President.

Like Linux Mint? Want it in a plug and go PC? CompuLab may have the computer for you: the new MintBox 2.