With Apple’s introduction of an iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) last week, it seems everyone and their brother is hopping on the iPhone bandwagon or considering the jump. There are still some ...

More of China's programmers are writing shareware--home-brewed, low-cost software--for fun and small profit, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Unlike commercial software from behemoths ...

What if you could walk out of a computer software store with a bushel basket full of programs and not pay a dime? And as you left, the clerk would hold the door open and say, "If you find anything in ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. Software can include operating systems, ...

The end of the long-time software-sharing repository underlines that personal computing isn't what it used to be, as we keep moving apps (and desktops) to the cloud. Once upon a time, in the early ...

Is it possible to make money off a product that millions have downloaded for free? The new owners of WinZip Computing hope so. WinZip, which specializes in software that compresses large files for ...

The great thing about FOSS (Free Open Source Software), shareware and freeware is that people can download and try it themselves. Yeah, if they find it. There are so many great FOSS and shareware ...

How honest are people when they think nobody's looking? The Internet is a fine place to find out: The near-frictionless ease of sharing files online means that if you want to download something ...

It’s a scare tactic that is all too familiar to computer users. An application purportedly scans your PC and finds multiple instances of "errors." These programs then promise to clean up your PC. But ...

I'm here shaking my head at much of the media coverage around downloading Radiohead's Rainbows album. ABC News gives a short summary: Last month, Radiohead announced it would let fans set the price ...

In the glory days of shareware programs, PC users could download useful little utilities from computer bulletin boards at speeds up to 1200 bps. Modems were slow back then, but programs were tiny by ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Is it possible to make money off a product that ...