Either open-source software is open, or it's not. But a popular Arab blog charges that SourceForge has blocked all access from Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba.

Mulling an in-house coding project has crystallized what I like best and least about the three scripting languages I turn to most frequently: Perl, PHP and Ruby.

Some free marketeers have a great idea to destroy what's best about the World Wide Web.

Apple's 'there's an app for that' iPhone campaign is essentially boasting about hefty market share. And when a smaller competitor came along that was vulnerable, Apple blocked access to its proprietary data.

Because it has such a slick graphical user interface, it's sometimes hard to remember that OS X also has a lot of built-in keyboard shortcuts. Here are a few of my newfound favorites.

In some ways, the Windows 7 user experience is even better than Mac OS X. But not all.

There's lots to like about Palm's smartphone, even though it's far behind competitors in available apps. However, a few things should be improved pronto.

I'm drawing up plans for a clean install, but mulling a new tool that promises to make migration easier.

I had a rare chance to hear the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat, this weekend explain how topics and stories end up on its home page. While he didn't give away all his secrets, the Google principal scientist did outline why certain articles get higher placement than others.

Live from the Online News Association conference in San Francisco, '4 cool tools for journalists' being demoed now.

After assuring us he wasn't pre-announcing new features, Twitter CEO Evan Williams made it pretty clear today that group messaging is on the way.

This compendium of problem-solving code snippets is a worthwhile addition to a programmer's reference shelf.

A memory corruption vulnerability could allow execution of malicious code.

Some "experienced Wikipedia authors" will spend a day at the National Institutes of Health this week teaching government experts how best to contribute health info to the popular open-source encyclopedia.

The new commands will allow the platform to do things like serve apps that create new Twitter tweets.

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