There has been a string of high-profile acquisitions of open source projects by big-name companies, such as Sun's purchase of MySQL. Can open source survive these mergers, or is it a death knell for further code development?

Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, talks about innovation, including new wallet-less and contact-less solutions such as PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to quickly process payments.

This is perhaps our most obscure geek shirt recommendation ever. Anyone who has played through Half-Life 2's complete Orange Box set knows that when a passive-aggressive supercomputer promises you cake, you'll end up up with heartache and misery.

With the current volatility in the financial sector, it's natural to wonder how the bellwethers in the IT industry are doing financially. ZDNet's Larry Dignan and Sam Diazput four of the tech giants under the microscope in these two video segments.

In the second part of our series on number-crunching, we'll look at Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

From the best part of a week, to two hours

Every day that you read an article or listen to a news report, you're likely to get a different picture of what effect the current economy will have on the tech sector.

If you're working on a large project, it's a good idea to get an auditor involved to make sure the project is progressing as expected. Tom Mochal lists the seven steps that you can expect during the audit process.

Putting together a financial cost-benefit analysis is something that could make a grown IT manager cry. But maybe this brief guide will ease the pain.

If IT has an arch-enemy in an organization, it's usually finance. We have strategies and solutions that can help make the business more efficient, but accountants are often too concerned with the bottom line. Here's how one CIO deals with accountants.

The U.S. Government's Misery Index is at its highest since 1993.

Alan Norton presents the New York online sales tax law as an example of why it's becoming increasingly important for Webmasters to have more than just a cursory understanding of legal issues.

Microsoft has revealed what $10 million of Seinfeld gets — and the laughs are few.

Are you planning to chase a job to a new city? Hopefully you're getting a raise in the process, but are you really coming out ahead? Check out this calculator to find out.

This week's quibble comes from the Aug. 19, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "To live in (compound) interesting times." TechRepublic member RealGem dinged Jay Garmon for poor use of fiduciary nomenclature regarding profits illustrated by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.