Google: We don't do Windows

Google is phasing out its use of Microsoft's Windows on desktops, citing security concerns stemming from the recent Chinese hacking incident

It must be nice to be a Google employee.  You get to work with the smartest engineers out there.  You get gourmet cafeteria food and all kinds of amenities.  But best of all, you aren't given some generic, locked-down PC that you aren't familiar with.  You get to pick what platform you MORE

iPad sales beat the Street by 162%

The consensus on Wall Street was that Apple would sell fewer than 382,000 iPads a month

In the wake of Apple's (AAPL) announcement Monday that it has sold 2 million iPads in less than two months, this seems a good time to revisit the sales predictions made by the experts when the iPad first came out.

As it happens, we published the estimates of 14 Apple analysts on Jan. 28, the day MORE

2 million iPads in 59 days

Apple is selling its tablet computer at the blistering rate of one every 2.5 seconds

Parisians rushing to buy iPads. Image: LeFigaro.fr

Apple (AAPL) is moving iPads as fast it can make them.

It took the company 28 days to sell its first million iPads, despite stockouts in nearly every Apple Store in the U.S.

On Monday -- three days after it began selling the device in nine countries outside the U.S. -- MORE

If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

A Utah woman used Google Maps' walking directions on her Blackberry and was given directions to walk onto a highway. She got hit and is now suing Google for damages.

You know those warning labels on those chemical packets that come in new shoes  that say 'do not eat'?  Have you ever wondered why they have to print  something so stupidly obvious?

Enter Lauren Rosenberg of Park City, Utah.  She used Google MORE

What makes Apple so sticky

There's more to customer loyalty than the love of a brand

Photo: Joeys Fun Foods

"Stickyness" is a term of art usually applied to websites like Facebook that keep visitors coming back for more.

But it can also be applied to a software platform, and in a note to clients issued Friday Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore takes a crack at measuring the stickiness of the iPhone-iPod-iPad platform.

What he's done is analyze the MORE

Motorola is 'all in' on Android

Motorola has been backed into a corner on Android but might just flourish there.

"Right now, I get what I need from Android," said Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha in a statement to the Wall St. Journal.

He'd better get that from Android because there aren't a lot of other options out there.  As feature phones commoditize and fade and smartphones become mainstream, Motorola and other mobile phone manufacturers are running out of MORE

Don't like Facebook's privacy controls? Try anyone else's

We might think Zuckerberg's system isn't simple enough – but at least he has one.

Cameras target Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he prepares to unveil the service's new privacy controls. Photo: Jon Fortt.

When I was in the seventh grade, I had a crush on an eighth grader and documented my secret love on a scrap of paper. Somehow it ended up in the possession of my obnoxious classmate, Myiia, MORE

Can Apple save Apple TV?

There might just be a market for a $99 iPhone (without the phone bill) that plugs into your TV

Source: Engadget

I tried to live with Apple TV for a couple months last year, but our relationship never quite clicked.

Maybe it was my fault. Other people seem to like the thing (although it has all-but disappeared since then from Apple's online store).

In any event, I found the movie and TV MORE

Verizon iPhone for Christmas? Really?

This is one Apple rumor that refuses to lay down and die

Despite all the reasons against it -- see my CNNMoney colleague David Goldman's Don't Count on a Verizon iPhone for an enumeration -- there is a minority of Apple (AAPL) watchers who believe AT&T's (T) cozy run as the iPhone's exclusive U.S. carrier will expire before the end of this year.

One of them is Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar. MORE

Is Apple holding Android back on AT&T?

Of the big four mobile carriers in the US, AT&T has lagged far behind on Android. But signs of life exist.

Image credit: FeelAndroid.com

Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are in a constant battle of 'one-upmanship' to bring their customers the best Android phone.  Depending on your tastes, Verizon and T-Mobile are probably in the lead right now.  T-Mobile has the Android 2.2 OS, hacker-friendly Nexus One while Verizon has the HTC MORE