Google’s open-source programs manager, Zaheda Bhorat, posted a blog on Monday urging those delegates to vote against Open XML because Google believes that it is an “insufficient and unnecessary standard, designed purely around the needs of
Microsoft Office.”

In a document more thoroughly laying out its position on Open XML, Google says the core problem with the [...]

“It is clear that I have a markedly higher chance of developing Parkinson’s in my lifetime than the average person. In fact, it is somewhere between 20 percent to 80 percent, depending on the study and how you measure,” Brin said.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched his personal blog on Thursday with some sobering news: he [...]

If you think that’s a good question, then here’s another: Why bother? After all, isn’t that just opening up a can of worms, upsetting the applecart? Well, not exactly.
My in-laws were in town this past weekend, escaping the Wisconsin snowstorms for a few sunny days in Silicon Valley. Hanging out with them was a [...]

What games do you think are missing from the Wii Virtual Console? Sound off at our discussion board!
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This week brings Dr. Mario to the DSi and Wonderboy to the Virtual Console. DSiWare Dr. Mario Express (Nintendo, 500 DSi Points): The classic color-matching puzzle game makes its way to the Nintendo portable in Dr. Mario [...]

Greg Brown, who only came on board as Motorola’s chief executive late last year, will act as co-CEO. Brown will head up the company’s broadband network division.
Now Motorola is looking toward the future. The company is expected to release several new phones, including ones with touch screens, in time for this year’s holiday season. The [...]

If my hunch is right, Chris Tolles has a better shot at representing the future of media than does Chris Matthews and his ilk. And that would be so fine by me–and probably lots of you, as well.

Topix is on to a big idea, and so if Tolles or any other start-up can shake [...]

Are Twitter’s performance problems due to flimsy engineering or the choice of Ruby on Rails to build the application?

In the Twitter developer blog on Thursday, an engineer said that Ruby on Rails still rocks as a Web development platform. The service’s woes are due more to a creaky architecture, he said.

Ruby is a scripting, or [...]

In addition to these two updates, creator Sandosh Vasudevan has fixed some of the problems that plagued it when we first took a look. For instance, you can now create new documents right from the toolbar, as well as see and search through all of your docs without having to visit the Docs and Spreadsheets [...]

Despite the recent pairing between Yahoo and Google, signs indicate that Microsoft is after the Sunnyvale-based Yahoo for its search capabilities. That doesn’t come as a huge surprise since that was the essence of the last round of talks before the deal was completely yanked off the table. And if we’re likening this courtship [...]

While the world rightly awaits
Firefox 3.0 with anticipation, it’s actually the mobile Firefox browser Fennec that I am looking most forward to seeing. According to the head of Mozilla Europe, we should be seeing Fennec in September, with a beta release later in 2008.
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The problem? It won’t run on my iPhone:
In sum, the news is [...]