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Apple’s suit against HTC could end one of two ways.
Either Apple becomes the next SCO, which ran itself aground claiming rights to Linux, or it becomes the next Microsoft, which is prospering while claiming to own Linux.
The answer depends on how hard Apple presses its case.
You can get a clue by looking at who Apple has sued.

The Download Sort add-on for Firefox can automatically save your downloads to various folders based on rules you define. This freebie might take a bit of work to set up, but once you've got it rolling your downloads will sort themselves right into place.

The success of open-source software raises a tantalizing question: Could the same design philosophy work for tech gadgets?

Genieo (free) automatically pulls in stories and feeds from sites you visit to create a custom home page. While largely effortless, you'll likely find it less customizable than similar online offerings.

Software Livre - Palestra: SETI Quest, SETI and Open Source Major Announcement

Danese Cooper (palestra em Ingles) Many attendees at campusparty may have enjoyed the movie "Contact" which talked about the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

Dark Reading looks at research into rootkits on smartphones. It shouldn't come as a big surprise to those who pay attention to security issues, but it is a class of attacks that...

Twitter Inc. is slowly moving off the MySQL database for so-called 'NoSQL' open-source database technology that's already been embraced by Web 2.0 counterparts, Facebook Inc. and Digg.