Given that most open-source companies are still doing less than $50 million in sales (a factor of their recent vintage, and not their potential, I would argue), it may be that the only companies that can afford to corral them will be the big ecosystem vendors: Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, IBM. But then, as Dave [...]

Fuel cell manufacturer MTI Micro announced on Friday that it has created a prototype for an embedded fuel cell for handheld GPS devices.
When these will hit the market is unclear: no time estimate was given for when MTI Micro’s fuel cells will actually make it into a GPS device that could wind up in your [...]

Google has updated its open-source Gears project so Web sites can take advantage of location services in Gears-enabled Web browsers.

Gears is an extension that augments the ability of
Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Apple
Safari. But it’s not the only way to get geographic information into a browser.

Also, programmers don’t need to know which [...]

“We need the help of ISPs. They have the technical ability to manage the flow over their pipes,” Shira Perlmutter, a vice president for global legal policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said earlier Monday at a technology conference sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation. “The good news is that [...]

Microsoft has seen its shares lose roughly 22 percent of their value since it announced its unsolicited bid for Yahoo earlier this year, which ultimately failed to take hold. And the beating that the broader markets have been taken in the interim also hasn’t helped Microsoft’s share price.

In addition to the stock buyback program and [...]

“The ‘96 telecom act is a dud. It didn’t work, it wasn’t enforced, and it didn’t take Internet into account in it,” Web pioneer Vint Cerf said in a panel Tuesday afternoon about the future of tech policy. “Broadband is important, it’s part of the country’s future, and we’ve got to fix it.”
I asked Larry [...]

For the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, IBM posted earnings of $2.8 billion, or $2.05 per share, on revenue of $25.3 billion, which was up 5 percent from a year ago. The numbers were in line with the preannounced results released by the company last week. The company has nearly $10 billion in [...]