An Illinois man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O'Connor for the District of Connecticut announced yesterday.

Dell reported its fiscal Q2 results Thursday, a week after it confessed that its books were manipulated to meet projections, but Wall Street had to settle for a dry press release. There was no conference call to tease out color and won't be until Dell files its mi...

Novell has now invoiced a total of $105 million since it cut its controversial deal with Microsoft in November, roughly 44% of the $240 million called for in the five-year pact. They are still 'ramping their relationship in Asia-Pacific,' CEO Ron Hovsepian said. H...

Video-on-demand and audio-on-demand are expected on many airlines nowadays, so it is no surprise that the version of KrisWorld, Singapore Airlines' in-flight entertainment system, that is being installed in the Airbus A380s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners that the comp...

Dell, the world's second-largest PC maker, said late Thursday that its books were cooked by unidentified 'senior executives' to hit financial targets and that its financial reports for fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first quarter of fiscal 2007 can't be tru...

Novell Inc. added 36 cents to $6.78. The software developer owns the copyrights covering the Unix computer operating system and not SCO Group Inc., a judge ruled in a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computer operating system. The ruling by U.S. Dist...

Dell has Ubuntu and now Lenovo has gone with Novell. The world's third-largest PC maker, at least this week it's number three, IBM's hand-me-down to the Chinese, is going to factory-install SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on some of its ThinkPad notebooks and s...

In a statement, IBM and Novell said, 'By entering into the agreement IBM gains access to Novell's SMB market leadership, providing new sales opportunities from Novell's existing customer base. In return, Novell gains a strong global partner, allowing it to tap int...

Dell is going to pay its ousted ex-CEO Kevin Rollins, now a senior advisor at private equity house TPG Capital, $48,462,495 cash for his unexercised vested options when it gets around to filing its delinquent 2007 10-K. It's also going to reimburse other unident...

Ousted Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has turned up at private equity firm TPG Capital as senior advisor looking at high-tech and consumer investments. TPG currently has a $14 billion fund. It has money in Lenovo, Freescale, SunGard and Seagate.

MySQL says that BlueLithium, described as one of the top five US online advertising networks, is using its database in a mission-critical data warehouse application along with the BrightHouse database engine from Infobright and that MySQL and InfoBright will now...

Fortune caught up with One Laptop Per Child mastermind Nicholas Negroponte at an airport after his détente with Intel last week and he told the magazine, 'We're giving them all our technology.' It seems that the unique technology developed for OLPC's AMD-based XO ...

'Linux has become a very natural fit for telecom network and device manufacturers who are looking for an operating system from which they can easily and cost-effectively build differentiated services and value,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux F...

Dell is going to add to the slim number of PCs that it's currently willing to put factory-installed Ubuntu Linux on, according to what Canonical CEO Mark Shuttlesworth, inventor of Ubuntu, told Reuters. Without talking real numbers, Shuttlesworth claimed Dell is h...

Intel has started the Mobile & Internet Linux Project (moblin.org) in support of Intel-based widgetry. It's supposed to be an umbrella operation under which a number of key elements for embedded distributions like Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded Edition, Pepper Lin...

The Linux Foundation has borrowed Markus Rex from Novell to be its CTO replacing Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian Linux who went off to Sun a few months ago to be its chief operating systems officer reportedly in charge of Linuxizing Solaris to make it more popu...

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as chief technology officer at the Foundation.

Dell, which is like a year behind in its paperwork, has got until Monday July 16 to produce its missing financial statements to stay in Nasdaq's good graces, but the company says it's going to ask for still another extension promising the numbers 'as soon as possi...

'We applaud all of today's winners and finalists on their achievement in winning our Readers' Choice Award,' said Roger Strukhoff, Editorial Director and Group Publisher of SYS-CON Media. 'Our readers live and breathe the uniquely compelling vision and potential...

Linspire developer of the commerical desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and ...

Something like 70% of Solaris deployments are on non-Sun hardware so Sun has taken to offering a new blanket support contract that covers all Sun hardware and software - and optionally other people's x64/x86 hardware too - for a single price. It calls the notion an ...

From Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog entry: 'Linus, First, I'm glad you give credit to Sun for the contributions we've made to the open source world, and Linux specifically - we take the commitment seriously. It's why we freed OpenOffice, elements of Gnome, Mozill...

Microsoft has tapped Tom Hanrahan to run its side of its interoperability efforts with Novell. The appointment comes seven months after Microsoft and Novell signed the now-famous pact that raised FOSS hackles because of the built-in patent claims. Interesting choi...

Today's Web service providers must understand Quality of Service, filtering techniques and implement QOS and access list filters on their networks. A proper QOS and filtering design helps to avoid network bottlenecks caused by worm and virus infections, sudden spi...

'Companies today are running a mixture of Linux and Windows systems,' said Andreas Typaldos, Chief Executive Officer of Xandros. 'Cross-platform data centers are a reality. To meet evolving customer needs, vendors need to recognize the value of sharing intellectua...

'I'm certain someone will sue somebody else about Linux on patent grounds, but it's less likely to be Microsoft (starting a trench war) and more likely to be a litigant who only holds IP and doesn't actually get involved in the business of software. It will be a s...

Total worldwide server sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly f...

Dell says it is offering 'hardware options on each system that have the most mature and stable Linux driver support. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested and certified by Canonical. For hardware options not offered with this release, Dell is working ...

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, who's sitting on a tidy little stash, says the company has been looking at acquisitions in its core markets. EMC says its Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Invista platforms have completed their interoperability qualification with Red Hat Linux.

Ubuntu, Dell's pick for some of its PCs and laptops, is going to try its hand in the mobile and embedded market next and is talking about riding on small handheld Internet-enabled tablets powered by energy-efficient Intel chips, the tiny Silverthorn that Intel h...

Novell has lost the chief architect of its Linux desktop effort Robert Love to Google and its Open Source Program Office. Many would like to ascribe it to the Microsoft-Novell relationship but Love denied it on Slashdot. It's simply the thrill of working for Google.

Michael Dell's new laptop, which Dell said last week is suporting Ubuntu, proved an accurate weathervane of the company's intentions. The much-heralded move is meant to scratch the itch of those Linux devotees who wrote in to Dell's IdeaStorm suggestion box asking...

'If I thought the state of Fedora were actually improving, I might hang in there. But it isn't,' wrote Eric S. Raymond (pictured) yesterday in an Open Letter with the title 'Goodbye, Fedora' which he cross-posted several places including Red Hat's own fedora-devel...

Palm, which has apparently put thoughts of getting acquired out of its head - at least for the moment - says it's going to use Linux underneath at least some of its smartphones starting this year. It's been developing the mojo in-house for a while now and says it ...

Mainsoft announced the winners of the 'Race to Linux 2.0.' Jointly sponsored by Mainsoft, IBM, and Novell, the Race to Linux 2.0 challenged .NET developers to take three open-source ASP.NET 2.0 applications from Windows to Linux using their cross-platform tool of ...

Once released, the technology called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to open a universe of thousands of x86 Linux applications to the System p platform. The news follows IBM's recent launch of three System p-based Web-ti...

In the throes of a budding relationship with Canonical Ltd, Sun says Glassfish, the open source Java Enterprise Edition 5 application server, will be available on Ubuntu, the species of Linux Canonical is commercializing. Glassfish is currently governed by Sun's C...

Novell today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data center. As a contributing member, Novell is working with other members of The Green Gr...

A lot of water has run under the bridge in the three years since Sun and Fujitsu vowed to replace their respective Sparc/Solaris-based Sun Fire and PrimePower machines with a 'co-developed' Advanced Product Line (APL) - using a 90nm 2.4GHz dual-threaded dual-core ...

'It's really important to understand the issues and opportunities for Linux in multiple environments, and the addition of Marvell, Nokia and VirtualLogix will deepen our understanding and help us all push the envelope even further,' said Jim Zemlin, executive dire...