Unleash the iPhones of war! The Army’s announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year.”

It didn’t take long after the desktop PC earned a regular seat at the enterprise technology table in the early 1990s for agency managers to realize that PCs can be a real drag. What’s the plan?

While Linux runs great on most any hardware, it runs even better on a machine with ample memory and a recent CPU. Upgrade options abound for even the most hardware hacking averse. In this monthly roundup we'll take a look at options to get your Linux system running even better.

Cost savings no longer the key driver for open source and investment is rising but less than a third of companies say they are willing to contribute to the community

New extension make OpenOffice.org a "complete Braille authoring environment" with support for Braille embossers, direct Braille entry and customisable layouts

This is a GNOME Shell theme based on the Ubuntu Lucid theme called Ambiance.

Oracle is a very big software company, and Larry Ellison is a very rich man. How did they get that way? By selling proprietary software, not by giving it away. It's the key point to bear in mind when looking at the twin train wrecks of Solaris and OpenSolaris...

Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software. The good news is that there are free and open-source alternatives for virtually every package a small business might need.