The Zerowriter Ink is an upcoming E Ink typewriter/word processor that fits into the growing (but still very niche) category of distraction-free writing devices. It combines a mechanical keyboard with ...

Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company has already installed Microsoft Office, you can ...

There is a change working its way through the wireless industry that is fraught with the dynamics of a digital revolution. The buzz word “Open Source” has been a skirting temptation of the wireless ...

As senior director of platform technology at Microsoft, Sam Ramji is positioned uniquely at the nexus of proprietary and open source development models. InfoWorld spoke with Ramji about how each camp ...