Stories about: MP3.com

Google plans on Tuesday to release a free online spreadsheet program that signals the company's increased incursion into the office software space dominated by Microsoft.

The tide is turning for music pirates in Australia, with illegal downloads being replaced by a strong and growing legal download industry. One of the keys to this sea change is the launch this week of the long-awaited Australian version of the Apple iTunes Music Store.

The Norwegian hacker who was arrested, and ultimately exonerated, for reverse-engineering DVD copy protection has taken a job with Michael Robertson's latest venture, a digital music company called MP3tunes. Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, began work on Monday for the San Diego company, Robertson said Wednesday in an interview.

Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com and head of desktop Linux company Linspire, on Thursday next week plans to launch a new music download company and service called MP3tunes.

Many enterprise software users and vendors have made significant commitments to open source technologies. Projects such as the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, and the Perl programming language, have proven themselves as viable alternatives to equivalent commercial offerings. But what about the tools used to hold core information assets? Are open source databases ready for the enterprise?

A federal court has ordered Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of evidence to support its claims in a trademark suit against software startup Lindows.com, pushing back the jury trial in the case from April until December.

Kicking off the Desktop Linux Summit at MP3.com's headquarters, Lindows.com's chief executive highlighted the latest developments on the desktop Linux front.

Walmart.com has begun selling Lindows.com's Linux-based operating system, the first stand-alone operating system not made by Microsoft to be featured at Wal-Mart's online store.

Software provider Lindows.com is offering US educators a new flat-fee licensing program, in a move that pokes at rivals' efforts to seize the valuable education market, where companies have traditionally looked to recruit lifetime users of their products.

Renegade software startup Lindows.com released the 2.0 version of its Linux-based operating system this week, offering users features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up ad blocking capabilities and boosted networking support.

Walmart.com has provided the first retail outlet for LindowsOS, a Linux-based operating system for desktop computers from Microsoft rival Lindows.com. Linux proponents have anxiously awaited a challenger to Windows, but some aren't sure LindowsOS is a worthy representative of its origins.