Mozilla's browser is taking market share away from Microsoft. Sometimes, slow and steady really does win the race.
The giant retailer's introduction of RFID technology is forcing other supermarket chains to catch up. But fiddling with data may not be the best survival strategy in the Wal-Mart future.
Evolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it.
Why should humans have to do all the work? It's high time machines learned how to take care of themselves.
From blog spam to pornbots, new strains of computer programs aimed at pumping up Google page ranks just keep on coming.
In the wacky wiki world, a Web browser is all you need to start contributing. But when the goal is to create an encyclopedia, such democracy has some pitfalls.
Not all trips to India are blessed by Krishna: A case study of outsourcing gone awry.
There's a market for software that recognizes your face and fingerprints, but also increasing fear that Big Brother will be the one staring hard at your eyes and nose.
While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that!
Famous programs from just a generation or two ago are in danger of disappearing from human ken, forever.
Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any device with a chip should be able to do, well, anything.
Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business. Case study: Microsoft in China.
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