Massive open online courses will soon deliver an advanced comp-sci degree at a very, very low price, courtesy of Georgia Tech, Udacity and AT&T.

The Korean handset maker earned $5.1 billion of the $5.3 billion in global profits seen by Android smartphone vendors last quarter, says research firm Strategy Analytics. [Read more]    ...

Canonical employees have announced that they plan to provide security fixes and minor improvements for Linux kernel version 3.8 until August 2014. However, the code will be maintained separately from the official stable and long-term kernels...

In Beijing this week, IBM has announced that it is further extending its reach into China with the opening of its first Linux innovation center there. The center will initially be focused on Power Systems clients and business partners, and will be located inside IBM's China Systems Center. According to the company, the new center "will make it simpler for software developers to build and deploy new applications for big data, cloud, mobile and social business computing on open technology building blocks using Linux and the latest IBM POWER 7+ processor technology."