Hewlett-Packard will release several components of its "Cooltown" software project as open source, hoping to spur interest in its vision for a world filled with interconnected gadgets. Stephen ...

The government has proposed that smartphone makers share source code with it and make software changes on security ground.

In the world of software development, the debate between open-source and proprietary software has been ongoing for years. While both have their merits, open-source software is increasingly being ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

The modern software development landscape is increasingly defined by collaborative practices that transcend organisational boundaries, with open source projects standing at the forefront of innovation ...

The term "open" has been used and abused by the purveyors of technology for a couple of decades now, so it should come as no surprise that technology users are taking their turn. Today, the term has ...