With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critical software,” — a key, early stage step to ...

As called for in the May 12, 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order (“EO”) released by the Biden Administration (discussed here), NIST met its deadline to release a definition of “critical software” ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization have promised to revolutionize the datacenter. SDN breaks the tight connection between the forwarding plane (moving data from ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new definition of "critical software" is foundational to new federal efforts to exert more control over the code supply chain. CISA Contracts NIST ...

As automakers push forward in the quest for software-defined vehicles, analysts and software experts are suggesting a system to clarify the stages of the transition. Stakeholders are seeking to create ...

As enterprises move toward understanding and incorporating AI in not only their products and services but how they operate to bring these new, more powerful experiences to market, they will be ...

The concept of software as a service (SaaS) took hold at a time when IT executives were getting supremely fed up with the ballooning costs of packaged enterprise software. Not only did they have to ...

Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he ...

If you think about the world around us, the meaning of completing a certain well-defined task usually remains constant. If someone tells you that they just built a house, you can develop expectations ...