IT applied to home energy use just might bring down our emissions, says Pilgrim Beart of AlertMe

Only victims of tyranny can justify use of Facebook says freedom activist Richard Stallman. He also spoke in favour of Julian Assange and against mobile phones

Preserving the open nature of the Internet can be more complicated than it seems, says the Internet Society's Markus Kummer

Satellite broadband is not everything to everybody, but it could be crucial for helping the government create a Digital Britain, says Chris Britton

Enterprise software could take off in the SMB sector if it's packaged up in easy-to-use form, say Microsoft's Doug Leland and HP's Doug Small

Utilities companies need to start thinking seriously about how to handle the influx of data from smart meters, says Teradata's David Socha

A commitment to open source by a local authority in the UK could be groundbreaking, says Mark Taylor of Sirius

With increasing pressure to reduce carbon outputs, Tom Jowitt talks to a company that is using technology to help the home interface with smart metres and save energy

The open source giant aims to be a $1 billion company, but CEO Jim Whitehurst was diplomatic about government contracts on a London visit

IBM depends on mainframe revenues, so don't go there to streamline your IT, says HP's Paul Evans