Shareware allowed budding developers to distribute their games affordably and reach a wider audience through copying and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...