Apple haters laughed with glee when geek pinup boy Steve Jobs was implicated in a stock-options scandal last year. Now, it seems their glee will be short lived as leading investigative journalists have revealed that there is little evidence to support criminal charges against him.
Microsoft has been criticized by the Open Source Consortium for its latest effort, an online petition, to fast track the ratification of its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an official international standard.
The availability of pornographic videos helped the VHS video tape format triumph over Betamax in early 1980s. Now a senior analyst at Forrester is suggesting that the availability of porn may affect who wins the high-definition DVD format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
A top Microsoft has executive has hinted at a change of direction for the Zune, including the release of a Zune phone. According to a study by market research firm NPD Group, Zune’s market share of hard-disk-based media players fell from 10.2% in December, to 9.9% in January, to 8.7% in February.