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The next industrial revolution will not be in IT, but in ET -- energy technology -- and the U.S. is in danger of missing the boat, two green tech experts said Wednesday.

Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: "How can you make money selling something for free?" But once open source advocates clarified the meaning of free - "Free as in speech, not as in beer" - the open source economy took off.

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

As a CIO at Royal Dutch Shell, Jay Crotts knows something about recruiting IT talent on a global scale. The US$26.3 billion company employs 8,000 IT professionals in 145 countries, including remote areas such as Iceland, Togo and Mauritius, a small country off the East African coast.

Much has been written and said about the latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman.

Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell's Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said here this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering.

In August 1999 I ran into Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in a gift shop not far from the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (LWCE) in San Jose. Among other things, Friedman and de Icaza were kicking around the idea of forming a company. Later the same year they did exactly that in founding Helix Code, a company whose sole mission has been to bring the GNOME desktop to new levels of completeness, polish, and ease of use. In August 2000 I ran into the dynamic duo again at the LWCE in San Jose. This time it was at the GNOME party.

The air conditioning at the Las Vegas Hilton Convention Center was set on chilly Monday, but feelings about the Internet among attending shopping-center developers, designers and investors ran hot and cold. Dallas Mayor Ronald Kirk, a member of the Federal Advisory Commission of Electronic Commerce, and New York Times correspondent Thomas Friedman offered anecdotes on how technology has affected the brick-and-mortar world, like it or not.

It's something of a Faustian bargain: Buy at a discount, sell your privacy. Sign up for Dash.com and get bargains on everything from cookbooks to dress shirts at more than 100 Internet retailers. In return, agree to let Dash track your every move on the Internet.