With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services. Joel is the [...]

Ed Bott is a freelance technical journalist and book author. All work that Ed does is on a contractual basis. Since 1994, Ed has written more than 25 books about Microsoft Windows and Office. Along with various co-authors, Ed is completely responsible for the content of the books he writes. As a key part of [...]

Ed Bott is a freelance technical journalist and book author. All work that Ed does is on a contractual basis. Since 1994, Ed has written more than 25 books about Microsoft Windows and Office. Along with various co-authors, Ed is completely responsible for the content of the books he writes. As a key part of [...]

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning “At The Evil Empire” column for ZDNet, and more recently [...]

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]

I am on record as one of those tablet users who gets the most out of any tablet I use, and that includes the iPad 2. I have detailed how I use the iPad 2 with a keyboard to do serious writing work, and now with OnLive Desktop for the iPad that includes working with [...]

These are forward looking statements, so I presume the lawyers were involved as to what is to be said. I did note two things. “…should be able to compile…” with my emphasis on should. May mean nothing of significance, but the store is opening in seven weeks, shouldn’t there be certainty by now? The second [...]

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning “At The Evil Empire” column for ZDNet, and more recently [...]

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]

@Dietrich T. Schmitz * Your Linux Advocate Here’s Google’s view on Android’s open-sourceness: http://allthingsd.com/20110510/what-googles-andy-rubin-means-when-he-says-android-is-open/ While Android is indeed open-source, it’s not a community project. Unless one views the OHA as a community, but it’s a closed community. Android is developed internally by Google and released, minus some proprietary bits and the Linux kernel, as open-source [...]