A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. Mac OS X is the major gainer followed by Linux. Windows might soon fall below 90% mark (still high) and Mac will enter the double digit. Linux might soon reach single digit (;)). It's currently at 0.8%, a gain of 0.12% compared to last month.
The Wall Street Journal has an article describing the power struggle between Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in the last few years. Here are some excerpts from that article:
CBS
Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire
CNET Networks, Inc. CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of
CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of
approximately $1.8 billion. The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most
popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million
unique users per month, and approximately 200 million users worldwide. CBSNet?
Verizon Wireless along with Mozilla joined the Mobile Linux group (LiMo). It's the first U.S. carrier to join the LiMo Foundation. LiMo already has the backing of large Asian and European carriers, as well as handset makers like Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
When Microsoft announced about Surface computing, all blogs and technology papers wrote a lot about it, but I didn't see anywhere in the blogsphere or tech papers I read, mention about the open source multi touch display. Engineers at Eyebeam, an art and technology center based in New York, have created a scaled-down open-source version of Surface, called Cubit.
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