- Tue Nov 3 7:05 AM PST 2009 EcoFactor pings thermostats to save energy
Silicon Valley start-up launches a hosted business intelligence application for optimizing heating and cooling systems to a given home.
- Fri Oct 2 9:21 AM PDT 2009 Microsoft and the open sourcing of the Web
If Microsoft wants to win on the Web, it must embrace open source. It's all about competition and capitalism.
- Thu Sep 24 9:18 AM PDT 2009 Microsoft WebsiteSpark tries to hit open source, mostly misses
Company launches program to attract Web developers, but it's going to need more than a low initial price tag to beat open source in Web development.
- Thu Dec 18 6:37 AM PST 2008 Microsoft digs into PHP
Software giant needs to integrate with leading Web technologies like the scripting language, if it hopes to compete effectively on the Web.
- Thu Dec 4 11:45 AM PST 2008 Production Fisker Karma revealed early
The world of plug-in hybrids is about to get a whole lot sexier when the production Fisker Karma debuts at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show.
- Tue Nov 25 11:07 AM PST 2008 LinkedIn and MySpace upgrade search with open-source Lucene
Lucene is the latest open-source project to become popular with Web developers.
- Mon Nov 24 8:07 AM PST 2008 China's Firefox browser has one feature the West lacks
In a display of how open source innovates, China's Firefox browser adds functionality that the West can't yet get.
- Tue Nov 11 2:19 PM PST 2008 Open-source companies crashing en masse? Puh-lease!
One analyst thinks open-source companies are on the decline, but he's got his facts wrong.
- Wed Aug 13 11:31 AM PDT 2008 Scaling SaaS and the Cloud--the burden of growth on Operations
The operational growth of SaaS and the Cloud is not to be underestimated.
- Fri Jul 25 3:17 PM PDT 2008 When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache
Microsoft is sponsoring a major open-source organization. The move may not seem as counterintuitive as you may expect.




