Microsoft's application suite for the Macintosh, previewed at Macworld, is due out this fall
Logo: Microsoft Corp.
For Mac users, Microsoft (MSFT) Office, like death and taxes, is something you can't escape.
With half a billion users worldwide, programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint are as ubiquitious as mosquitoes and as likely to draw blood. Apple (AAPL) makes its own applications suite, iWork, with programs called Pages, Numbers and Keynote that fill MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 11, 2010 11:15 AM ET
A business incubator in Detroit wants to launch hundreds of tech companies.
From left: former auto industry engineers Oliver Baer, Chris Channell, and Terri Teller have launched green-tech firm Clean Emission Fluids in Detroit.
Crammed into a small Detroit office filled with pipe fittings, hydraulic tubing, and a device that looks like a gas pump combined with a supercomputer, Dave Shaw sums up how his life has changed. Tipping back in MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Feb 11, 2010 9:17 AM ET
After Apple's big tablet debut, Amazon is starting to play a little defense.
In the matchup between the iPad and the Kindle, some say it's game over for Amazon's e-Reader. But according to industry watchers, it's still only the first quarter.
Keep in mind that Apple's tablet showed up just two weeks ago, and it hasn't even hit the market yet. Meanwhile, Amazon hasn't exactly gone on the offensive, but CEO Jeff MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Feb 11, 2010 8:59 AM ET
Their pygmy-killing iPhone game is the unlikely winner of this year's "Best App Ever" award
Dave Castelnuovo and Allan Dye. Photo: Spencer Brown
It started as a week-long "sprint project" -- a bit of bare-bones entertainment for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, written as quickly as possible and published last January.
Within hours, users were complaining on the Internet that the game -- which involved bumping off tiny island dwellers by flicking them into MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 11, 2010 6:00 AM ET
The online giant argues new features will win back lost search share
Shashi Seth, Yahoo's SVP of search products, has been on the job just three weeks – and he wants everyone to know Yahoo's still serious about search. Photo: Jon Fortt.
Yahoo brought out its big engineering guns on Wednesday to convince the world that it hasn't given up on search.
The search story has gotten complicated for Yahoo (YHOO) in MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 10, 2010 7:56 PM ET
The mark-up for the mid-range model is more than 150%, according to iSuppli
iPad price grid. Photo: Michael Copeland
Silicon Valley's teardown analysts these days don't even wait for the body to arrive before publishing their autopsy reports.
Case in point: the estimated bill-of-materials for Apple's (AAPL) iPad issued Wednesday by iSuppli, an El Segundo, Calif., company that specializes in so-called virtual teardowns.
Retail prices for the device, which is scheduled to start MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 10, 2010 3:38 PM ET
Next-gen energy distribution depends on getting users engaged and educated.
By Will West, CEO and co-founder, Control4
West: The smart grid is good for you, and a little fun, too. Photo: Control4.
The Smart Grid—the next-generation energy distribution network now being rolled out—offers something for everyone: Greater transparency and lower costs for consumers. New opportunities for technology providers, appliance and consumer electronics makers, and power utilities. A smaller carbon footprint for the MORE
Feb 10, 2010 10:00 AM ET
Signs of "crazy interest" in Steve Jobs' tablet computer in Scandinavia, Europe and Asia
Could enthusiasm for the iPad be even greater overseas than it is in the U.S.?
Exhibit A: Two Apple (AAPL) resellers in Norway have been overwhelmed by eager buyers whose pre-orders exceeded expected supply in less than a week.
"It's been a crazy interest and demand for Apple's latest creation, iPad," reads the website of Eplehuset (Apple House), a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 10, 2010 9:24 AM ET
Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the company's New York office in 2008
Just after Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin and his team unveiled Google Buzz, the company's new Gmail feature that brings in Twitter-like social updates, a discerning audience member asked Brin why Google's social efforts to date have failed. Brin denied this, and then hedged, explaining, "Past services have focused on friends and entertainment." This one, he explained, also MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Feb 9, 2010 4:21 PM ET
The popular platforms of today are bound to be the targets of tomorrow
By Kevin Prince, chief technology officer, Perimeter E-Security and Doug Howard, former chief strategy officer
(The following is adapted from the forthcoming book, Security 2020, scheduled to be published later this year.)
The social networking (think Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace) phenomenon is only going to grow. And anytime there is a system, program, or process used by MORE
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