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After a re-examination, the U.S. Patent Office has rejected a patent previously granted to Microsoft for a Windows file format.

Expanding the imprint of open-source software, the Apache Software Foundation on Monday will launch an open-source project around business process management server.

An embedded Linux training and services company in the South of France has published 500 pages of embedded Linux training materials and presentations under an open source license. The materials are available in French and English, and have been contributed to the community by Free Electronis, based near Sophia Antipolis.

Instant messaging is everywhere nowadays, but people who use it may be surprised to know how trivial it is to listen in on their private conversations. Snoopers can use tools like tcpdump and aimsniff to tap into the contents of the messages. But with a little free software, IMers can be secure in the knowledge their conversations are, well, secure.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- ISP owner Robert Craddock liked Microsoft's recent Sender ID antispam proposal and patent application so much that he came up with a nearly identical system -- except he did it long before Microsoft made its version public. In fact, he started using the system he now calls Mail-Block back in 1998.

Red Hat Inc. has gone scavenging among Netscape's remains, agreeing Thursday to pay America Online Inc. (AOL) up to $23 million in cash for the assets of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Security Solutions unit.

Take a look at the Ion windows manager, a powerful and simple program that manages the windows that applications bring up on your desktop. Ion isn't flashy, but once you get used to it, it can greatly enhance your productivity and make you wonder why you ever used those other window managers.

The NSW Opposition has asked the government to explain why it has released a tender for provision of Linux software and services before making public the details of a departmental investigation into open source software.

Libranet is offering a trial version of their 2.8.1 Flagship Edition and LinuxBeta.com has done a series of great screenshots of this distribution.

LinuxBeta.com has some cool screenshots of this popular distro.

A Gartner statement claiming that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows has been challenged by the Open Source Industry Association.The industry body for open source within Australia said in a statement that if Gartner's conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct, then this "tenuous logic" could be extended by stating that pre-installing Windows in turn must clearly encourage people to pirate application-level software.

New features include UTF-8 support, manifest typing and improved concurrency.

The folks who defend democracy and help make American jobs and dollars in foreign markets deserve to vote as much as anyone, but during the past year leading up to the November national election, these military and other out-of-country voters have had a harder time than anyone.

Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is seeking a patent on the company's per-employee software pricing plan, News.com has learned.

Astaro Report Manager collects and correlates data so administrators can respond rapidly to network threats and to strengthen defenses

Astaro Security Linux Stops .jpg Graphics Files That Can Take Control of PCs and Servers

Sun Microsystems, owner and godfather of the Java franchise, today rolled out version 5.0 of its Java 2 Platform Standard Edition, nicknamed Tiger. To the surprise of no one, the company called it the biggest and most important release to date of the enterprise application development platform.

IBM Corp. will spend more than $1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end.

Networking and Linux specialist Novell's company-wide rollout of Linux on the desktop is falling behind schedule.

Linux Networx, a maker of Linux server clusters, recently announced it would launch a service to help customers conduct airflow simulations in their data centers to avoid overheating.