The co-founder of Opera Software, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, has handed in his resignation from the company, ending a term that began with the company's creation in 1995. Mr. von Tetzchner was at the helm... More...
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg, has said that the rise of social networking within the last decade means that people no longer expect privacy, according to the Guardian. Speaking at TechCrunch's "Crunchie" awards in San Francisco... More...
Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the "third" founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself... More...
Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge the cash cow... More...
On the opening day of the VON conference, Bram Cohen (the founder of BitTorrent) was among several others who spoke out against digital rights management software and specifically the implementation of it in Microsoft Windows,... More...
Neowin has just gotten word that the Creator of the Freenode IRC network, Rob Levin (aka lilo) has passed away. Although there is not much information yet on the subject, this is what fellow Freenode... More...
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.... More...
Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very... More...
Monster Worldwide Inc. said Monday that Jeff Taylor, who founded job search Web site Monster.com, is leaving the company in August to start a new Internet venture. Monster said it would provide some... More...
The investment firm that manages the private fortune of Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell invested $99.5 million in Red Hat Inc., the world's largest distributor of the Linux computer operating system, according to regulatory filings.... More...
With $10 million in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously... More...
Two years after finding his way off the recording industry's "most wanted" list, Audiogalaxy founder Michael Merhej is back with a new peer-to-peer software venture. The Austin, Texas, programmer's new company, ByteTaxi,... More...
A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield hindering anyone attempting to enter the music sharing market: by a licence to webcast content. Mercora is a P2P... More...
Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that Founder, a major supplier of personal computers to the Chinese market, will pre-install the Windows version of Apple's iTunes software on all of its PCs beginning... More...
Wayne Hsieh, one of Asustek Computer's founders and the largest shareholder, resigned from the board and left his post as vice president of the manufacturing division last Friday and wrote an emotional email to former... More...
Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. "It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don't make... More...
Open Source Development Labs, which employs Linus Torvalds, says it will pay its law firm, AterWynne LLP, to represent the creator of the open-source operating system. Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who was... More...
Thanks Quick Reply. Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the pioneering Web browser Mosaic, said he laments that innovation has all but ceased on this essential piece of software that makes surfing the Net possible. "There... More...
Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a curve ball into the open-source programming community Thursday. In a posting sent to a key Linux-focused e-mail list, he outlined a... More...
Napster founder Shawn Fanning quit the revolutionary online file-swapping service he created in his Boston dorm room in a mass exodus Tuesday that almost certainly signals the end for the once-feisty music service. ... More...