Emerging Technology

Two new CEOs of SaaS vendors have different ways to get their products to market.

During Intel’s 40th birthday celebration in Munich, Intel Germany chief Hannes Schwaderer let out a monster secret. He said that Apple is indeed using Intel’s new Atom chips in a new device, that is slightly larger than the iPhone.

KOS, GREECE -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off a Microsoft Research project at his annual CEO Summit today called TouchWall.

Earthlink partnership with Philly crashes and burns, defeated by mocha lattes and Big Macs

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we take a headgear-flavored gander at Fedora 9. Not to mention why we hate smug, self-satisfied Apple Macintosh users...

Todd R. Weiss reports:

More and more companies are depending on their development's research to come from universities.

What is the iPhone Black and why is it appearing on AT&T Wireless's site? That is the question that Apple's iPhone watchers are asking themselves this morning after Appleinsider reported that AT&T is now offering a surprise. Could this be the illusive 3G iPhone making an appearance a few weeks before its official debut?

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Research In Motion unveils its sexy new device -- the BlackBerry Bold (née 9000). Not to mention How to advertise an unpronounceable, orange, Scottish soda to women...

Yardena Arar reports:

George Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research, was the speaker at a dinner for CIOs in New York last week. Colony spoke about how the information technology field has actually become "business technology," and one of the points he made was that there needs to be a strong partnership between the technology and marketing sides of the business.

 Will the 3G iPhone have hardware GPS?  It is hard to imaging it wouldn't with the "Landmark Event" coming in June.  Howwever some people like to get information early.  The best way to get information early on the iPhone is to dig through the iPhone SDK Betas that are coming out of Apple on a weekly basis.

Paying your restaurant tab gets a little easier. And you might even get to prowl online while eating.

We interrupt the regularly-scheduled Microhoo update to bring you the story of an obscure software vendor that seems to be proving that open-source and Windows are not like oil and water after all.

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

I am, shall we say, more than a little cynical, even by my standards, when it comes to wireless networking. For example, I really, really have doubts about the wisdom of moving up to 802.11n. That said, I think the monster Mobile WiMax deal, which was announced today, may actually go places.

The battle between Microsoft and VMware to control Windows virtualization is forcing users to chose between two proprietary approaches. Users are caught in the middle.