As the Linux Foundation tells it, the Linux-related job market is today 80 percent larger than it was five years ago. Whereas other industries have had to shed workers in the current recession, the Foundation is hopeful penny-pinching measures might actually encourage businesses to transition to Linux-based software and thereby further stimulate employment opportunities [...]

Google’s really sticking it to the man this week, first over the Chinese censorship issue and now with their battle over Gmail security, switching from “http” to the far-safer “https” as the default setting.
What does this mean for you? Not much admittedly, as they’ve been offering the option for using https since 2008. You [...]

Sprint’s got a nice head start in the 4G race over Verizon and AT&T — a message it’s heavily broadcasting these days — but with the onslaught of LTE networks and equipment around the world now just months away, momentum is unquestionably going to shift, giving the carrier every reason to act quickly to [...]

Google’s been taking bad press about Chinese search result filtering for years, and now it looks like the company simply fed up: it’s going to stop filtering Google.cn and it may pull of out the country entirely. The move comes on the heels of coordinated attacks on Gmail, which Google says were aimed at [...]

Normally we might not cover the formation of a new consortium with ridiculously lofty goals like this, but check it: Bell Labs has managed to corral a who’s-who of carriers, universities, government agencies, and industry labs with the goal of making communications networks more energy efficient than they are today. What makes the goal [...]

webOS version 1.3.5.2 for Euro-spec GSM Pres just hit over the last handful of hours, bringing a host of changes — but the biggest, perhaps, is the addition of Bluetooth tethering capability. The move is particularly interesting in light of Palm’s announcement last week that it’ll use its Mobile Hotspot app to enable tethering [...]

Pure’s always had a knack for crafting elegant, oftentimes unorthodox looking radios. Problem is (at least for you Yanks), they’ve been marketed and sold exclusively across the pond. In our humble opinion, there’s no better time to change that than here at the International Consumer Electronics Show, and sure enough, Pure is making itself [...]

Everyone is clamoring about tablets these days—ourselves included—so it’s not too surprising that Google and HTC are set to join the fray. They are reportedly working together on a Chrome OS Google Tablet.
Smarthouse, an Australian publication, reports that HTC and Google have been collaborating “for the past 18 months” and have produced “several working [...]