There will always be a place for relational databases, but non-relational solutions are proving to be fast, flexible, and scalable for many tasks.

During GUADEC 2010, the GNOME Release Team met and decided to hold the GNOME 3.0 release for the March 2011 release instead of September 2010. Even though it means an additional six months to GNOME 3.0 is officially released, it could be a good thing.

The official release of Eclipse 4.0 SDK, which reworks the underlying platform of the IDE, is now available for early adopters. Production users will have to wait for tools to be updated to feel the benefit...

.NET for Android - dubbed MonoDroid - has come a step closer.…...

At last week's OSCON conference, the big topic on the minds of open sourcers was whether or not an open source social networking offering can break down the walled gardens of popular services such as Facebook, and win...

Nokia has unveiled a knock-off of Opera's Mini phone browser, intended for use on its low-end handsets in emerging markets. It's the first manifestation of Nokia's own ad engine.…...

Why do some people choose to run Linux as their PC platform of choice while others opt instead for other ways of running their computing experiences?

The KDE software collection has a new BlueTooth stack called "BlueDevil."

Google has released a new mechanism for helping to ensure that Android app developers get paid for premium content. The solution to curtail app theft? It's all in the cloud.

Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community?

Knowing how serious the Obama administration is about trimming costs and using the latest technology, Google makes a strong case with the release of new version of Google Apps that meets federal security requirements.

During a keynote session at the OSCON open source conference, David Recordon, the senior open programs manager at Facebook, detailed the LAMP infrastructure in use today at Facebook.

The 2010 Kernel Summit will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 1 and 2, immediately prior to the Linux Plumbers Conference....

The LiMo and GNOME Foundations have announced a new partnership. "Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation's Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation...

The head of Facebook's open source products details how the company delivers social networking to 500 million people.

OSCON is worth attending, or at least watching from a distance, if for no other reason than it gives a pretty clear picture of what the developer community and industry around open source is thinking about. To sum up OSCON 2010 in three words, it's community, cash, and clouds.

As we noted when April's DrupalCon conference took place in San Francisco, the open source content management system Drupal has gained substantial momentum...

Want the ability to print preview in Chrome? We'll have to wait, because it's one of the features that didn't make the Chrome 6 cut.

We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great...

If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition software over the years, you know that it's been a rocky road. Pundits ranging from Ray Kurzweil to Bill Gates, have, at various times, proclaimed speech recognition to be the wave of the computing future, but...