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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 400 people spent time last week in Denver learning how to go from being an “introverted geek” to a savvy software marketer and seller. The 15th annual Shareware Industry Conference drew ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications, and malware. Software can be distributed ...