Steve Jobs unveils Apple's iPad 2

"This is no toy," says Jobs. I think it would actually be a good thing to take to live gigs (as long as you have iPad screen insurance)."

It’s Official: Apple to Unveil iPad 2 on March 2nd

Can Apple Survive the Second Going of Steve Jobs?


"Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave, reassuring investors and fans that he has “great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011.” But at Business Insider, longtime Apple watcher Henry Blodget thinks that Jobs’ public statement might prove to be his valedictory."

Where Low Airfares Have Gone Online


"Turf War Between Airlines and Travel Websites Leaves Fewer Options for Fare Shoppers, but Our Expert Knows Where to Look."

Milwaukee FBI agent trips up Russian 'king of spam'


"Authorities say he was the king of spam, a 23-year-old Russian controlling a network of infected computers generating 10 billion unwanted e-mails a day - a third of the global spam stream - until a Milwaukee FBI agent unplugged the operation."

Tablets Chasing iPad's Success Flood CES


"Big tablets and small tablets, white ones and black ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. Brand names famous and obscure at the starting line of a race where the iPad is already a speeding dot near the horizon."

"It's impossible to walk the floor at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show without stumbling across a multitude of keyboard-less touch-screen computers expected to hit the market in the coming months. With Apple estimated to have sold more than 13 million iPads last year alone, the competition is clearly for second place, but even that prize is worth pursuing."

Why I Don't Want an iPad for Christmas

Booming app stores search for developers to fill them


"For its Windows Phone 7 system, Microsoft paid some developers and offered free hardware to coax them into building apps. Even still, prominent developers such as Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Square and Twitter, say they're taking "wait and see" approaches."

Microsoft's server boss talks Azure and more


"After two years of building Windows Azure, Server and Tools President Bob Muglia said yesterday that the cloud operating system is ready for business customers of all sizes to give it a try. At its annual Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced several new Azure features including the ability to move existing applications and virtual machines into Microsoft's hosted service."

Review: Windows Phone 7


"Windows Phone 7 is elegantly executed, incredibly intuitive, and straight-up beautiful at times. What it’s not, relative to the competition, is complete. The things it does, it does well — but the things that it doesn’t (yet), tend to stick out. These things — third party app multitasking, copy and paste, or tethering — are things that people complained about other mobile operating systems lacking a year and a half ago."

"Windows Phone 7′s user interface takes as rapid a departure from its predecessors as is possible. Hell, it’s a pretty huge jump from any mobile OS before it. Building on some design theories they established with the Zune, Microsoft really took some chances with this design… and, well, they really worked out in their favor."

Microsoft Readies $500 Million Kinect Advertising Blitz

Microsoft issues its biggest-ever security fix


"...the world's biggest software maker said that the patches released on Tuesday include software to fix a vulnerability exploited by the Stuxnet virus -- a malicious program that attacks PCs used to run power plants and other infrastructure running Siemens (SIEGn.DE) industrial control systems."

Microsoft new phones get favorable reaction


"The phones, three of which will initially be available on AT&T Inc's network in the United States beginning next month, are much closer in look and feel to Apple's iPhone, with colorful touch-screens and "live tiles" for easy access to email, the Web, music and exclusively, and games on the Xbox system."