One would hand out chocolate on the streets of Seattle. Another would publish her 93-year-old grandfather’s 4,000 rhyming poems. A third would build an app that makes it easy for friends to buy ...

The amount of free content on the Internet is partially a result of horrid copyright infringement and partially a product of the open source movement, an umbrella term that applies to any kind of ...

Fans of open source robotics need look no further than Willow Garage. Not satisfied with merely creating an amazing robot platform that plugs itself in to recharge (PR2), they are also one of the ...

Markaboo is a fantastic new social bookmarking tool developed by Christian Romney and Jean Thomas from a company called tglo. It’s open source and has a great feature set. I’ve used del.icio.us for my ...

Windows: If you're setting up a new system or helping a friend to see how much great free and open source software exists, ZeuAPP is a portable installation tool for nearly a hundred applications.

We admit it, we were browsing Reddit when we found this beautifully hacked together Nerf Sentry turret. But are we ever glad we did — as it turns out, it is very similar to the totally awesome, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. This article is more than 10 years old. A post the other day caught my eye. It ...

Ouya the Android open source gaming console which has taken Kickstarter and the world of gaming by storm, and that has just 20 hours left of its campaign. Has announced in the eleventh hour that they ...

I started out my “run a new Desktop Environment every week” adventure roughly one month ago with Enlightenment (which is really quite excellent). Then I transitioned to the Awesome Window Manager. One ...