- Fri Nov 20 12:00 PM PST 2009 Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge
Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating-system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one.
- 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.
- Thu Nov 19 9:01 PM PST 2009 Fortified rice, fuel cells among Tech Award winners
Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education.
- Thu Nov 19 3:21 PM PST 2009 Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does
Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse?
- Thu Nov 19 3:10 PM PST 2009 The dad who only talked to his son in Klingon
A Minnesota man claims he only spoke to his son (now 15) in Klingon for the first three years of his life. Is this a good tale to help market translation software?
- Thu Nov 19 3:06 PM PST 2009 Terminal fun: Options for printing folder and subfolder contents
Printing the contents of a folder in OS X currently still requires either third-party software or workarounds using TextEdit or the Terminal. Here are some ways to go about doing this.
- Thu Nov 19 2:30 PM PST 2009 Google has its own plan for Netbooks
No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
- Thu Nov 19 2:13 PM PST 2009 Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS
Does the Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
- Thu Nov 19 12:05 PM PST 2009 Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue: $79 million
The revenue growth rate tapered off to 5 percent from 12 percent the year earlier. A search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money.
- 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?





