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Mobile Developers Get to Tinker With Google's Android November 05, 2007 
After months of speculation and rumors about its mobile plans, Google and a raft of supporting companies gathered Monday to announce Android, a new platform billed as the first truly open and comprehensive application for mobile devices. The platform is the result of a collaboration including T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others through the Open Handset Alliance.
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Uruguay Pays Nearly Double for So-Called $100 Laptops October 30, 2007 
Uruguay recently became the first country to order the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's so-called $100 Laptops, devices designed for children in developing nations. The only problem? The laptops, 100,000 of which were reportedly ordered by the nation, cost just about twice as much as the foundation originally thought they would.
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Google to Put an End to Pesky Gphone Rumors October 30, 2007 
In the next two weeks, Google will reportedly announce its wireless plans. Google will unveil advanced software and services that enable cell phone makers to release "Google-powered" devices sometime in the first half of next year, according to a report that cited people familiar with the situation.
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Second Life Sex Toys Spat Spurs Real-Life Lawsuit October 29, 2007 
Second Life may be a virtual world, but six entrepreneurs operating there have filed a real-life lawsuit against Second Life users who allegedly copied their products. The suit was filed last week in Brooklyn federal court against New York resident Thomas Simon, who reportedly goes by the name "Rase Kenzo" in Second Life, as well as 10 other as-yet-unnamed defendants.
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Mozilla's Prism to Pull Web Apps Off the Browser October 28, 2007 
Mozilla Labs has begun an endeavor with the ultimate goal of creating an environment for PC users in which Web applications function on the desktop the same way and with the same ease of use as desktop applications. The first application to come from the project is Prism, software that will allow users to run Web apps directly from the desktop -- no browser needed.
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The E-Learning Adventure October 25, 2007 
There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd control.
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Twine: Stringing Together the Semantic Web October 23, 2007 
Friends, colleagues, organizations and teams will soon be able to use a new service designed to help them share, organize and find information with Twine.com, Radar Networks announced Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Twine is the first mainstream application of what the company called the "Semantic" Web.
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Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon Takes Over for Feisty Fawn October 18, 2007 
Thursday marks the official stable release of Ubuntu 7.10, but by Wednesday -- with the Ubuntu community Web site ticking off the time as "1 day to go" -- the Internet was awash in glowing tributes to Ubuntu's latest advancement. The highlights of the latest release include 3-D desktop visual effects that raise the appeal of using the system.
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Free Software for the SMB October 16, 2007 
Memo to small business owners: If you are spending a fortune on software to run your business, you'll be interested to know you may be able to get almost everything you need for free. With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business software have lots of potential customers to attract.
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Mozilla's Firefox to Trot Onto Mobile Devices October 11, 2007 
Firefox creator Mozilla is "serious" about creating a version of its browser for use on mobile phones, according to a company official who said the company's goal is to "rock" the mobile Web. Mozilla is constantly being asked about its plans for a mobile browser, Mozilla engineering vice president Mike Schroepfer said on his blog.
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IBM, Linden Lab Envision Borderless Metaverse October 10, 2007 
Heavy construction is under way to create an open playing field of interoperable technologies for users to navigate the so-called 3D Internet of the future. Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, and IBM announced Tuesday that they will work with other partners to drive open standards and tools where protocols and formats speak the same language.
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Health Insurance Consumers Should Seize More Control October 09, 2007 
The uninsured and underinsured in this country will be a top focus in the run-up to next year's presidential elections as competing candidates face off over who has the best plan to solve the burgeoning problem. One doesn't have to wait until the primaries are held, though, to know that whatever candidate is nominated, the government will not be taking over healthcare insurance any time soon.
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The Great Showdown: MS Office vs. OpenOffice October 08, 2007 
Microsoft has the best products money can buy -- at least, that's what they would have you believe. However, remove money from the equation so MS buyers can't brag on the size of investment, and OpenOffice fans can't gloat about a freebie, who would win in an OpenOffice vs MS Office 2007 face-off? "Ah, a great religious question!" exclaims Paul C. Williams, senior software engineer at LexisNexis Examen.
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ARM Lends a Hand to Form Mobile Linux Initiative October 04, 2007 
Research forecasts that Linux will be the top operating system for mobile computing began to look a little more fully baked with the announcement by ARM that it will collaborate with six vendors to finesse a standards-based, Linux-based platform for next-generation mobile devices.
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Media Player Exploits: New Vectors, New Threats September 26, 2007 
Two separate exploits involving the Apple QuickTime and the Microsoft Windows Media players could continue to plague computer users regardless of which Web browser is installed as the default on a computer system. So far, the only browser developer to announce a patch for this vulnerability is Mozilla, which posted a patch to its open source Firefox Web browser last week.
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Mozilla Sends Thunderbird on Solo Flight September 19, 2007 
The Mozilla Foundation is spinning off its open source e-mail client, Thunderbird, into an independent company. The new company, MailCo, plans to develop Internet communications software "based on the Thunderbird product, code and brand," Mozilla said. David Ascher, CTO of ActiveState, will lead the new mail-focused company.
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