We told you it was coming, and now it's here! Canonical announced today that its popular Linux distro Ubuntu now supports Netflix playback through Chrome. If you're running a fully updated install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS or later you can simply go install Chrome 37 right now and immediately

Even before the fall school buying season started, Google sold a million Chromebooks to the education market. Google now aims, with its Chromebook for Work program, for these lightweight, Linux and cloud-based laptops to become just as popular for office-users. Saswat Panigrahi, Google's Chrome for

That's not a typo. That's a billion dollars. FOSS Patents has found that Microsoft has had little success to date in the courts with its Android patents. We've always known that Microsoft makes most of its mobile money from Android. What we didn't know was just how much Microsoft profits from its

Every year by about this time, with the release of the first beta, most Ubuntu commentators have already filed their final story on Ubuntu x.10 for the desktop — well in advance of the final release in October. This time around, with the upcoming release of Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) for the

China is looking to develop its own operating system for desktop computer, and subsequently take the system onto tablets and smartphones, according to a report from Xinhua over the weekend. The impetuses for the move were cited as being the Chinese government's decision to exclude Windows 8 from