- Sun Nov 22 11:59 PM PST 2009 'Jurassic Park' kid cast as Facebook co-founder
Actor Joseph Mazzello, best known as a freaked-out 8-year-old chased by dinos, will now play a nerdy Harvard engineer chased by ConnectU lawyers.
- Fri Nov 20 11:01 AM PST 2009 Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it
Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.
- Fri Nov 20 9:00 AM PST 2009 Browser security features compared
The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other browsers all protect against phishing and malware attacks, and most also let you browse anonymously, though they implement these features in very different ways.
- Thu Nov 19 11:41 AM PST 2009 Theory of competition fails in open source, elsewhere
Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies?
- Thu Nov 19 9:23 AM PST 2009 The new optimizations for capability computing
The new Top500 list of the world's largest supercomputers suggests that "commodity clusters" for high-performance computing aren't so commodity after all.
- Wed Nov 18 5:10 PM PST 2009 iPhone app scans bar codes for health, enviro ratings
GoodGuide releases a free app that lets you scan an item's bar code and instantly retrieve info on that product's health, environmental, and social responsibility ratings.
- Wed Nov 18 1:47 PM PST 2009 First Take: Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The Microsoft Office 2010 beta was released today and though there aren't many major changes from the Technical Preview in July, there are some new features and enhancements worthy of note.
- Wed Nov 18 4:00 AM PST 2009 A tale of two Diggs
It's clear that the company has to deal with its dual identity as a social-news pioneer struggling to compete with Facebook and Twitter, and a Slashdot-like fanboy hub.
- Tue Nov 17 4:30 PM PST 2009 Observations from an EMC analyst day
EMC has made VMware an integral part of its story in a dramatic departure from years past.
- Tue Nov 17 10:17 AM PST 2009 Report: Twitter still 'missed opportunity' for Fortune 100s
They might be the world's largest companies, but that doesn't mean they understand how best to use the popular microblogging tool, according to a new study.




