Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009

InfoWorld's 2009 Bossies spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros

Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009

FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites

While some claim pending blogger disclosure rules are onerous, the FTC needs to get tough on misleading Google AdWords and Web sites

AdMob pegs Android as No. 2 mobile Web platform in the U.S.

But looking behind the numbers raises some questions, such as whether the inclusion of iPhone and Android apps skewed AdMob's mobile Web traffic data

Open-Xchange opens e-mail inbox to Facebook, Twitter

The open source company wants to ease the burden of handling different ways of communicating

Why open source could kill Android's chances

The fractured fate of desktop Linux should be a cautionary tale to Google and spur it to treat Android like a strong platform, not a starting point

Features

Desktop Linux: Ready for the mainstream

Organizations can adopt Linux for many users, and save the high upgrade costs of Vista or Windows 7 more

Quiz

Linux admin IQ test

How much do you really know about the free OS? more

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FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites
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FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites

Blog by Rodrigues, Urlocker, et al.

While some claim pending blogger disclosure rules are onerous, the FTC needs to get tough on misleading Google AdWords and Web sites

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