- Tue Feb 9 9:06 AM PST 2010 What today's tech is teaching tomorrow's workforce
The kids are all right, and they increasingly prefer Apple, Google, and open source. What will this mean for Microsoft?
- Tue Feb 9 4:00 AM PST 2010 Microsoft, Google split over browser bug bounty
Google follows Mozilla in launching program to pay researchers who find bugs, but critics say it won't necessarily pay off.
- Mon Feb 8 11:50 AM PST 2010 Google to make Gmail a little more social
Sources familiar with the company's plans tell CNET that Google is ready to integrate status updates into Gmail in Twitter-like style, with a stream of text and multimedia updates.
- Mon Feb 8 7:45 AM PST 2010 The application is the new the operating system
Apple has changed the way we think about operating systems, by helping us to forget the operating system entirely.
- Sat Feb 6 9:57 AM PST 2010 Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix
Microsoft is getting set to phase out its FAST enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix. Will customers move to cloud-based search or move to Windows?
- Fri Feb 5 4:26 AM PST 2010 Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.1 alpha
Bug fixes, interface refinements, and a revamped browser engine are built into the first test version of Mozilla's new e-mail software.
- Thu Feb 4 6:00 AM PST 2010 Apple, Google, and the importance of Bing
Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful--witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft.
- Thu Feb 4 12:08 AM PST 2010 Web video gets H.264 royalty reprieve
The group that licenses the widely used H.264 video compression technology decides against adding a Web-streaming royalty charge that could have helped rival formats such as Ogg Theora.
- Wed Feb 3 10:07 PM PST 2010 Can Android survive its forks and fragments?
The Nexus One keeps getting better versions of the Android OS while developers complain of too many versions and too few market payouts. Is Android coming apart at the seams?
- Wed Feb 3 9:25 AM PST 2010 Thank heaven for Apple's (upward) pricing pressure
Pricing creates perceived value, something that Apple does exceptionally well and open source does exceptionally poorly.




