The Linux Foundation has released the results of a study that it conducted in order to estimate the financial value of the Linux platform. They say that the kernel is worth $1.4 billion, and the broader platform is worth $10.8 billion.
Following Psystar’s retention of California law firm Carr & Farrell, attorney Colby Springer has hinted that the case may end up making some antitrust claims against Apple.
Content owners successfully blocked the roll out of a remote DVR system by Cablevision, but the service may be back on after the company scored a resounding victory in its appeal of the decision.
Space X aims to make launching satellites cheaper and more reliable, but the company has more work to do following the loss of its third Falcon 1 rocket this weekend. Star Trek’s “Scotty,” whose ashes were aboard, won’t spend eternity hurtling through the final frontier after all.
When most of us arrived home with our newly purchased PS3, we couldn’t wait to start annihilating aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man or kicking butt kung fu-style in Virtua Fighter 5. Not astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna - he used his to build a supercomputer.…