Microsoft Microsoft Reveals A Family of Super-Thin Tablets Called Surface Microsoft on Monday revealed a family of super-thin tablets called Microsoft Surface to compete against Apple's iPad and to extend the lifetime of Windows, its flagship product of 30 years. The launch is a concession that the tablet will likely become the workhorse of the trillion-dollar information technology industry, a radical demotion of the… Jon Mitchell View comments
News Knight News Challenge Awards $1.37 Million to Projects That Should Already Exist The Knight Foundation has announced six winners of the first round of this year's Knight News Challenge. Past winners have been ambitious projects, broad in scope, many of them as part of major parent organizations in journalism. But at least in Round One, this year's crop proposes fairly obvious ideas. It's surprising that some of these haven't… Jon Mitchell View comments
Software Linus Torvalds' Obscene Rant Highlights Linux’s Hardware Woes In an expletive-laced video, Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasts hardware vendor Nvidia as “the single worst company we have ever dealt with,” in response to a question on Nvidia driver support in the Linux operating system. Hack Brian Proffitt View comments
Browsers Retailer's Tax on IE 7 Users Opens New Front in Browser Wars When Australian retailer Kogan.com enacted a “tax” on customers using Internet Explorer 7 last week, it may not have been trying to become the poster child for worldwide Web-developer frustration with Microsoft browsers. But the stunt seems to have tapped into a seething undercurrent of animosity for Internet Explorer that could bring new… Hack Brian Proffitt View comments
Music Pandora: Time for a Bowie-Style Reinvention File sharing, MP3 players and online stores transformed the way we listen to music. Now the cloud is bringing even bigger changes. Pandora is the rock star of cloud-based music services, with a clear lead in streaming audio. But - true to music-industry form - a crowd of younger, hungrier rivals is pounding on the stage door. Play Kevin Kelleher View comments