Law professors and academic-library groups are asking a federal appeals court here to modify a new ruling to make it clear that established copyright provisions, like fair use, sometimes trump ...

Today, computers are in everything, everywhere. This fact is making computer scientists and software engineers indispensable. They are the ones leading the way in developing the next generation ...

Even after 25 years, Microsoft Office remains the top dog when it comes to business productivity software, according to Groovy Post. If you're a one-person show running everything off your laptop, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy spent $4.1 million more than necessary during the last five years to acquire and maintain desktop software, according to a report by Gregory Friedman, the department’s ...

Europe’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that the trading of “used” software licenses is legal and that the author of such software cannot oppose any resale. The exclusive right of distribution of a ...

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even ...

During the summer months, we are often asked what kind of computer a student is expected to bring to campus. Importantly, no student is required to provide their own computer for success at UMass ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ilkka Turunen in his role as global ...