The recent Microsoft document leak serves as an example for everyone, what companies shouldn’t do if they want to keep information secret, and what you should know about the information service providers collect and store about you.

Google may be preparing to released an unlocked Android smartphone in the near future. Is it going to change the entire mobile phone landscape, or is it just one more in a long line of Android handsets?

Targeted for Fedora 13, a new feature based on the Btrfs filesystem will protect against operating system upgrades that malfunction or for some reason need to be rolled back

Google held a press conference today to highlight some of the features of its new Chrome OS, due to launch sometime before Christmas 2010.

Internet service in the U.S. has become a non-competitive landscape of slow line speeds and lately, blatant abuse of power. We may need to start treating internet service like a regulated utility if it is to remain the open engine for innovation we’ve come to know and love

A common problem in the IT world, upgrades sometimes break things. However by combining some excellent tools together the problem can be solved entirely.

We get it, a lot of the software on a “Linux” distribution came from GNU. We appreciate it, it is good software, but please stop trying to force this horrible “GNU/Linux” brand name on the community.

Because of the way FileVault on OS X works, only a users home folder is encrypted. Anyone who has worked with a complex Unix based system can tell you that sensitive information can be written outside a users home folder. I decided to try and mitigate the problem by using built-in OS X tools and some clever scripting.

A quick but useful tip to make OS X always boot in verbose mode, where startup messages are displayed on the screen instead of the grey apple logo, as well as boot into single user mode first before continuing the boot process to graphical login.

Part 2 of our custom Ubuntu USB stick tutorial