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ownCloud is a self-hosted open source file sync and share server. Like "big boys" Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others, ownCloud lets you access your files, calendar, contacts, and other data. You can synchronize everything (or part of it) between your devices and share files with others.

The Taiwanese pioneering fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Labs announced the general availability of the latest addition to its LinkIt portfolio, the MediaTek LinkIt Smart 7688 development platform.

Birthdays mark time. They ask us to look back—at our accomplishments and stumbles, our histories and their invaluable lessons. They also encourage us to look forward—to our dreams and goals, our futures and the promise they hold.

In today's open source roundup: LinkedIn updates its Android app with a Facebook-like feed and interface. Plus: Steve Ballmer wants Android apps on Windows phones. And is Apple moving Android users to iOS?

By the time I was 23, I was a veteran software developer and the father of two adorable girls. I had designed, written, and managed other developers through the creation of a medical practice management system written in little known, now forgotten, 4GL. What I learned in that process was not to get yourself locked into a product that cannot be run on any operating system (OS)/hardware combination that might become popular.

Machine learning, cloud, and IoT among the top tech predictions for 2016.

32-bit Google Chrome Linux binaries will no longer be available starting in March 2016. Chromium, the open source alternative, is not affected.

A couple of weeks ago, a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies in the world asked me how a large organization such as hers should think about organizing itself to maintain control over costs and risks while still giving their global organization the freedom to innovate.

And it's pretty easy to install via a command line. How-to The Let's Encrypt project has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain free SSL/TLS certificates and set up HTTPS websites in a few simple steps.

Opera Software, through Aneta Reluga, announced yet another update for the Opera 35.0 web browser, build 2064.0, which is still in the developer channel for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Tom Haines is the director and co-founder of 3Dami, a nonprofit educational program in the UK that focuses on teaching 3D animation to teens with ages ranging from 14 to 18 years old. It's a seven-day program in which students produce their own animated films from concept to final viewing. read more

Chromebooks have proven to be incredibly popular devices, with many getting high star ratings and reviews from customers on Amazon. But a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests that Google is tracking the Internet browsing of students who use Chromebooks.

This tutorial shows how to build PHP 7 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Debian 8 (Jessie). PHP 7 is up to 2 times faster than PHP 5.6 and 14 times faster than PHP 5.0 according to the release notes.

Linux was born and grew within an ecosystem of norms, not laws. Those norms were those of programming (C), operating systems (*NIX), command shells (bash, etc.), e-mail (SMTP, etc.) licenses (GPL, etc.) and Internet protocols (TCP/IP and the rest).

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PowerDNS and Poweradmin on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM.

We initially set out to produce The Hello World Program entirely with free and open source software, which presented us with a variety of challenges. Not all professional media production software has a FOSS equivalent, requiring a bit of flexibility and ingenuity on our part. We advocate FOSS because it enables anyone of any age, background, or budget to create professional media with minimal equipment and a handful of craft supplies.

When I was 13, our school was hooked up to the Internet—a 28.8 kbps U.S. Robotics modem was all that stood between us and the vast expanses of the Web. As I grew to understand more and more about the fundamentals of HTML and websites over the next couple of years, it seemed to me that you needed to use special tools like FrontPage or the legend that was DreamWeaver to make anything of any real merit. read more

Techdirt has written a few times about the pharmaceutical industry's use of "evergreening", whereby small, sometimes trivial, changes are made to drugs in order to extend their effective patent life. It turns out the technique is applied to one of the most widely-used drugs of all, insulin:

LEGO bricks: To a parent, they're a virtual minefield, hidden away in the carpet to inflict unimaginable pain from a seemly innocent barefoot step. But to a child, they are a tool for creatively engineering anything the mind can imagine. And for many, they are our first foray into open source. The instructions with a LEGO set start out as rigid rules, and become merely guidelines as children learn to remix, adapt, and extend the "code" which defines the object being built, and then be shared with anyone nearby. read more

LibreOffice is the best free office suite around, and as such has been adopted by all major Linux distributions. Although LibreOffice is already packed with features, it can be extended by using specific add-ons, called extensions. The main LibreOffice extensions website is extensions.libreoffice.org. Extensions are tools that can be added or removed independently from the main installation, and may add new functionality or make existing functionality easier to use. read more