- 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?
- Tue Feb 2 12:19 PM PST 2010 Which open-source vendors can afford the cloud?
Open source is the foundation of most cloud-computing efforts due to its cost and flexibility, but that cost benefit may nudge some traditional open-source vendors out of the market.
- Tue Feb 2 6:47 AM PST 2010 Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas
Mock-ups of a Chrome OS tablet emerge much more quietly than Apple's iPad did. In some ways, Google's Chrome OS could be a better fit for tablets than for Netbooks.
- Mon Feb 1 5:16 PM PST 2010 Greasemonkey comes to Chrome
Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too.




