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• Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto

  By James Niccolai | 19 May, 2013 19:01

  With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp.

• Facebook to design an open source switch

  By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:57

  As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

• How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

  By Joab Jackson | 01 May, 2013 20:44

  Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

• Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

  By Ellen Messmer | 30 April, 2013 18:02

  Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

• Why openness drives innovation

  By Lauren States, vice president, CTO, IBM Corporate Strategy | 23 April, 2013 17:56

  Figuring out the next big thing in technology is something a lot of us are tasked to do, and it becomes even more challenging when predicting what will succeed long term. But one attribute that stands out as giving a new technology a leg-up is using open technologies for a creative freedom to spur innovation.

• SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 April, 2013 13:56

  Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to merge.

• IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

  By Jim Duffy | 19 April, 2013 14:00

  IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  By Joab Jackson | 28 February, 2013 20:51

  Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

• Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures

  By Paul Krill | 21 October, 2008 07:54

  Microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with Novell pertaining to Suse Linux. Looking to elaborate on Microsoft's activities, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing, met last week with Paul Krill in San Francisco. Companies today, Gutierrez said, have become "mixed source" ventures rather than the world being divided up between open source and proprietary.

• Sizing up open source: Not so simple

  By Stacy Collett | 06 May, 2013 10:09

  Choosing open-source software is more complicated than picking traditional software. Is your IT department prepared to contribute code fixes to the community?

• Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open-source code

  By Mary K. Pratt | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Just about anyone in the office can introduce open-source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets.

• Open your data to the world

  By Neil Savage | 16 April, 2013 11:22

  Not having an API is becoming like not having a website, but the interface has got to be easy for outside developers to work with.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 3: Why we use WordPress

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 27 February, 2013 12:34

  In the third part of a three-part series, we look at two organizations that have chosen WordPress as their content management system.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 2: Why we use Joomla

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 19 February, 2013 11:47

  In the second part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Joomla as their content management system.

• 10 open source projects to watch this year

  By Katherine Noyes | 31 January, 2013 14:46

  Open source software projects may not typically have the marketing budgets necessary to match launch events like the one Microsoft just held for Office 2013, but that doesn't mean their products are any less valuable.

• Why there's no stopping the Android train

  By Katherine Noyes | 23 February, 2011 06:24

  It's a rare week indeed that doesn't see the emergence of some fresh news of Android's ascendance, but lately the evidence has been coming particularly fast and furious, suggesting that there really is no stopping the mobile platform--at least not anytime soon.

• How DRM could ensure cloud security

  By Keir Thomas | 04 February, 2011 05:53

  Yet another survey is indicating that security is a big issue for those intending to take up cloud computing.