Google has launched a new developer sandbox for iGoogle gadgets that looks suspiciously like a proto-social networking site. The new sandbox allows developers to build and test applications that use the OpenSocial tools Google announced last year. With iGoogle users numbering in the tens of millions, the new OpenSocial tools in iGoogle could pave the [...]

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Google’s stock soars 20 percent for a record one-day gain on Friday following news of its stellar first-quarter results.

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Try saying that 16 times fast. A new group of analysts is trying to assess how much, and what, open source software is installed. To participate in the census, go to OSSCensus.org and download their free software package, called OSS Discovery. Sounds like a submarine. It’s written, for whatever reason, in JRuby, a Java implementation [...]

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Google recently announced it will soon begin indexing the so-called “deep” web, those pages hiding behind HTML forms and other inadvertently spider-blocking HTML elements. The move will potentially open up a whole new range of webpages that were previously invisible to the search engine. Among the possible wins for Google users is the ability to [...]

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Sun recently experienced a hail of criticism when the company hinted that some add-ons for the popular open source database, MySQL, might be available only for paid customers. Today Marten Mickos, former CEO at MySQL AB and now senior vice president of Sun’s database group, backed off the statement, saying that Sun has not made [...]

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