The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving away a series of large cash prizes for the discovery of Mersenne prime number discoveries. A record breaking 12-million digit prime recently scored its finders a $100,000 cash prize.

The web site of open source organisation the Apache Software Foundation, was taken down yesterday after hackers compromised the SSH key for one of its servers.

The European Union has launched a new satellite location service that dramatically enhances the accuracy of the existing US GPS system..

Microsoft has welcomed the latest round in the European browser debate after the European Commission apparently accepted its proposed measures.

Linux bosses have hinted that there will be a new netbook based on the Linux Moblin OS announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum

A series of key Microsoft patents are reportedly on the verge of being sold to an open-source advocacy group..

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.