The real heart of open source lies in its potential to be greater than the sum of its parts, the capacity to leverage the talent and abilities of an entire community of developers and users who are striving towards a common goal.

CNN reports that Microsoft may charge extra for security software. So first they edge their competition out of the browser market, then they tie IE into the OS so tightly that a crash in IE can crash the computer, and then they make IE so vulnerable that just using it is hazardous to the typical computer's health, and now they want to CHARGE users to fix it?

A public university with an enrollment of over 80,000 put the kibosh this week on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and urged its students to switch to alternative browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, or Safari.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-based browser that has become a champion of the open source movement, has grown by more than a third over the past month, according to the latest independent study from WebSideStory (Nasdaq: WSSI) (http://www.websidestory.com), a leading provider of on-demand Web analytics

COMMENTARY -- Within the technology industry, there are such fervent supporters on both sides of many polarizing issues that you'd think these issues are religious rather than technological. Linux vs. Windows, AMD vs. Intel, PC vs. the Mac, proprietary vs. open source are a few examples. But Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP?! Why SP2 deserved every shred of the scrutiny

If you are using Windows XP and are thinking about applying the new XP patch, you really need to read this. You better grab a coffee, it is a long one. Here is the link WinXP SP2 = security placebo?

As the first serve rocketed across the net at this week's U.S. Open tennis tournament Monday, millions of Internet users tracked the scores as if they were seated courtside. The powerful eServer i5, IBM's next-generation iSeries server, is providing real-time technology updates to the U.S. Open Web page, allowing fans to keep track of every backhand returned.

There is a greater need to consider the social benefits of using free and open source software(FOSS) and not just the economic economic advantages, Alan Levine, CIO of Future Perfect told delegates at last week's Second Open Source Software Africa conference in Johannesburg. Levine said that the use of FOSS should not only be evaluated by project, business case or system. He said the traditional total-cost-of-ownership and return-on-investment models cannot take into account all the business implications of using FOSS.

A worm capable of using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net.

E-mail privacy suffered a serious setback on Tuesday when a court of appeals ruled that an e-mail provider did not break the law in reading his customers' communications without their consent. The First Court of Appeals in Massachusetts ruled that Bradford C. Councilman did not violate criminal wiretap laws when he surreptitiously copied and read the mail of his customers in order to monitor their transactions.

This is great news. If you wanted to use the web site or not this is a landmark victory for Linux users everywhere. The Canadian government has officially recognized Linux users as valued members of society. Notice to Linux users

Cisco Systems introduced the CRS-3 router, which has 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor. The vendor promises its router will transform the Internet from a messaging platform to an entertainment one.

Companies struggling to navigate the uncharted waters of e-book publishing can take a lesson from Penguin Books -- that seems to have no fear of diving into the deep to try something new.

Smart phone vendors are suing one another like there's no tomorrow. Having trouble keeping track of those suits (no pun intended). Here's a quick guide.

Looks like Microsoft has finally delivered the goods. Seventy-two per cent of IT professionals polled recently said they plan to migrate to Windows 7.

Online ads are being placed in all the wrong places, and targeting the wrong audience. Such irrelevant advertising is not just wasteful and disrespectful of viewers, it's a marketing miasma that does harm to the brands and businesses it's meant to promote, a Canadian expert notes.

Recently downgraded Microsoft vulnerabilities still pack a mean punch for organizations still using Windows XP.

The Unconference movement has inspired a new form of meeting up with a group of people that is more participatory and casual than your traditional sit-and-stare conferences.

Online banking fraud targeting small businesses cost those firms more than $120 million in the third quarter of 2009.

Convincing end users about the benefits of unified communications technology took some salesmanship at the IT level - in the case of this Pepsi bottler. The payoff was amazing.