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 ...

Many software developers, like myself, have a difficult time finding the right balance between respecting the rights of the users of their software (such as releasing the source code under a license ...

Even groundbreaking products in the digital space need to be easily available to users first before clearing the clutter. The first step towards reaching consumers and gauging their response is to ...

It’s a rare day when a shareware programmer gets firm statistics on the extent of software piracy, but just recently, I got that chance. You see, the company I work for – Ambrosia Software – writes ...

While EGA was widely supported and easy to develop for, many shareware programmers harboured ambitions to one day make games that didn't look like sick. As before id Software led the charge with the ...

I was wondering if there was anything similar in the shareware/freeware realm that would suit my needs. I don't really care a whole lot about features, and I don't expect it to be as nice as Ghost, so ...

In July 2001, Andrew Black and Scott R. Lien were having a drink after work and commiserating about the high cost of software and intellectual property development. Lien, then vice president of ...

Goodbye, Tucows Downloads: Software Download Site Finally Retires In a way, Tucows Downloads was an early app store for the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s to help people find freeware and ...