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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

I got bored of reading the same crap around here so I made this thread. it belongs here because the Software section is Windows only.<P>We all know that the OS is very important to productivity but i ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you a gamer? Do you like free things? Of course you do! We here at the Tech Deck are just like you: poor gamers looking for cheap entertainment. And nothing’s cheaper than cost-free gaming. Each ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three articles on utilities for personal computers that will appear over the next several issues. Part 2 will deal with DOS utilities and part 3 with desktop ...

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 ...