A Blue Moon on the night of December 31, 2009, may help New Year celebrators ring in the New Year of 2010. Although, is this really the case? And, if you see an actual 'blue' Moon, you’ve probably been drinking too much of the bubbly. Or, maybe have a Blue Moon beer in your hand?

Novell has announced the release of Moonlight 2.0, an updated version of its attempt to clone Microsoft's Silverlight, and extended its availability to other distributions - with a rider attached.

One of the best sources for news about Microsoft on the web these days is the personal blog of Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza.

Microsoft's spruiking the advantages of the latest versions of its Silverlight and Expression web tools.

Earlier this week, Novell’s Mono Project announced the availability of the beta of Moonlight 2 – a reimplementation of Silverlight for the Linux platform.

Google has revealed a partial list of hardware and software companies that it is working with to support Google Chrome OS.

How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?

Microsoft has shown the world exactly how friendly it is towards open source by going to court to claim damages over patents which have been allegedly violated in an implementation of the Linux kernel. And that's a good reason why FOSS users should avoid Mono and Moonlight like the plague.

Microsoft's getting with the program: the company has previewed support for H.264 video content in Silverlight. Some may question why it has taken Redmond so long to embrace the video standard.

ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!