- Mon Feb 8 2:50 PM PST 2010 TweetDeck gets a few tweaks
The latest version of TweetDeck is out, and although it's a minor update it also introduces some useful changes worth noting.
- Mon Feb 8 12:34 PM PST 2010 CNET News Daily Podcast: Blackberry hacked, 4chan blocked, iPad unwanted
On the podcast: Blackberry vulnerabilities, Verizon blocks 4chan sites, the space station gets a new bay window, and more.
- 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.
- Mon Feb 8 4:10 AM PST 2010 Linux founder endorses Google's Nexus One
The Google phone gives Linus Torvalds mobile phone religion--though more for apps than voice calls. Also: Firefox progress using Android's Linux.
- 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 5:55 PM PST 2010 Oracle signals change of tone about cloud
Even as Oracle kills off the critically acclaimed Sun cloud offering, it prepares a PR blitz to proclaim its cloud strategy: the software arms dealer to the cloud-computing stars.
- Fri Feb 5 6:00 AM PST 2010 From Alfresco to Canonical
After four-plus years at Alfresco, it's time for the author of CNET's The Open Road to move on to a new challenge, as COO of Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical.
- 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.




