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One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favour of doing business entirely on the Web.

Privacy advocates are concerned that a move by Verio to stop hosting a controversial Web site points to a growing control of the Web by big business and governments.

Results of a high-tech research project to be released next week promise to finally unravel much of the remaining mystery of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator.

Intellectual property issues have become a paramount concern in software development projects lately, with a great deal of the angst arising from the use of open source software. Forging a business model to address this problem, Black Duck Software provides a platform to identify intellectual property during the software development process. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Black President and CEO Douglas Levin, a former Microsoft executive, about Black Duck and issues pertaining to intellectual property and open source.

Good news for Web log publishers with aspirations of making money off their sites -- compared to the average Internet user, visitors to Web logs, or blogs, tend to be younger and to belong to a wealthier household, a study has found.

The president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been asked to leave his job, less than a month after taking on the post, for allegedly racist posts.

Microsoft Corp. is investigating rumors that the secret code underlying its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has leaked out and is available on the Internet, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

Systems running sendmail are at risk of hacker attacks because of a flaw in the way the commonly used e-mail server software handles long e-mail addresses, experts warned Saturday. This second serious bug announced this month has some sendmail users looking for alternatives.

If you haven't noticed, weblogs are escaping the world of the opinionated scribbler in the wilderness and being taken up as a means to extend corporate intelligence gathering

Like the age of the Earth or of Hollywood stars, estimates on the age of the Internet depend on whom you ask. By the calculations of one industry pioneer, this week marks the 20th birthday of the modern Internet.

Linux clustering vendor Mission Critical Linux last week laid off up to 90 percent of its workforce after attempts to find a buyer failed.