It will be interesting to see how Apple reacts to news that Palm’s Pre knows how to interact with iTunes. While not a business feature, iTunes support would make buying or switching to the Pre much easier for millions of the iTunes faithful. Multitasking, another key feature of the Pre, may be a more...

Mozilla testing near-final Firefox 3.5 Mozilla is close to releasing of its near-final version of Firefox 3.5, but the updated browser wasn’t quite ready in time for a planned day of widespread testing. Earlier this month, Mozilla set Friday to be Firefox 3.5 RC1 Test Day. But RC1, the first release...

In a recent story about how Google creatively destroys markets, I said that only Google will run the servers for Wave, its re-think of e-mail. I was wrong about that, as Google reps took pains to tell me. I want to set the record straight. What Google is doing with the Wave communications architecture is...

President Obama on Friday said the U.S. government is “not as prepared” as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by computer or Internet attacks and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. The still-to-be-named coordinator...

WIKIPEDIA has banned members of the Church of Scientology from contributing to articles in a bid to stamp out biased information. The site’s administrators allegedly decided to impose the ban after finding members of the church were changing articles related to Scientology to promote their...