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Firefox is gaining ground in Europe, according to a report released Monday by French Web analytics firm XiTi Monitor, and at least some of that progress seems to be coming at the expense of Internet Explorer. Mozilla's Firefox accounted for nearly 28 percent of the browser market in Europe in the fi...

There's no doubt that the technologies have arrived to make it possible for individual citizens to participate in the legislative process. "We've already seen a shift in both software and the media where individual content is key and any one very talented coder or blogger can impact an industry," Am...

In a momentous move to end a long-standing rivalry, Intel and One Laptop per Child announced Friday that the chip giant has climbed on board the nonprofit group's effort to produce low-cost laptop computers for developing nations. OLPC aims to bring laptops and learning opportunities to the most rem...

It's probably safe to say that most Americans, at one time or another, have felt they could do a better job of governing the nation than their elected officials. It may even be safe, in fact, to say that that has never been more true than it is today. "Bush's approval ratings are as low as it's poss...

"Web 2.0" is one of those buzzwords that gets applied to practically every new technology and idea these days, with the inherent suggestion that they represent a new generation, a new way of thinking -- a paradigm shift. Most often the term refers to social networking and user communities that facil...

The Linux Phone Standards Forum announced Monday the publication of its first specifications aimed at fostering interoperability across the Linux-based mobile phone market. The first installment of LiPS Release 1.0 includes a reference model, address book and voice call enabler, as well as user inte...

Following Wednesday's announcement of the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance by a group of 10 vendors, Unisys said it would join the nonprofit consortium. The OSA, which was announced at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York, is dedicated to promoting comprehensive open source busine...

Microsoft's self-proclaimed commitment to open standards became more tangible Thursday when it released the first Open XML translator for Word. Version 1.0 of the translator, which is a free, downloadable add-on to the word processor, allows users to convert Office Open XML documents into the OpenDo...

At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard. The Software Freedom Law Center, an open source software group, made its request in November on behalf of three...