Linux.com: Those of us in the open source community depend heavily on Oregon State University’s Open Source Labs (OSUOSL), but may not even realize just how much.

With Hewlett-Packard moving into the post-PC world by attempting to unload its PC business, Dell and Apple will duke it out in the U.S. Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

During the recent LinuxCon convention in Vancouver, Linux creator Linus Torvalds took the stage to answer some questions about Android. During the past few years, there has been a lot of debate in the open source community over whether Android is or is not Linux.

Microsoft’s Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online have had their service restored following outages on Wednesday, August 17. For CRM Online, the issues reportedly included a performance slowdown to the point of being unusable. For Office 365, the status dashboard during the outage had indicated that “all users are unable to access their email, and [...]

Google announced earlier this week that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, primarily for Motorola’s intellectual property portfolio which includes more than 17,000 patents.While it may be a great move for Google, it will undoubtedly affect its competitors like Apple and Microsoft as well its Android device partners like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and [...]

The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazzaar on Wednesday released a new specification to ease the pain of license compliance for open source software.

Judging from recent job advertisements, the next version of Apple’s iPhone will pack support for LTE, the fast 4G wireless technology that is rolling out across the U.S. and other parts of the world.Forbes has viewed listings on the job networking site LinkedIn that indicate Apple is seeking field test engineers with expertise in LTE. [...]

Microsoft suffered an outage with its Office 365 online service Wednesday afternoon, according to the company’s Twitter feed and messages from customers.