Linux 3.0 has been released according to Linus Torvalds, who is the father of the ‘Linux’ kernel, but there is nothing particularly significant to the big ’3.0′ aside from an attempt to keep kernel revisions ‘saner.’ Torvalds said the following regarding today’s 3.0 release, “So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.<bignum> days, and 3.0 [...]

AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines & American Eagle, announced today that it has reached an agreement to order two series of aircraft which will be the worlds largest known aircraft order combined, ever.  American takes delivery of planes from not only Boeing, but Airbus as well.  Included in the ‘aviation shopping list’ [...]

Google and Apple usually ignore each other as they both sit perched atop their respective pedestals overlooking the information technology battlefield.  However, evidently Google can only take so much of Apple attempting legally to smack around competitors using Google’s Andorid operating system with lawsuit cases.  In this case, it’s Taiwan’s tech-powerhouse HTC which is under [...]

The USITC (United States International Trade Commission) ruled last Friday that they have sided with Apple Inc. regarding a patent lawsuit brought against HTC in March of 2010.  Apple’s complaint was that HTC violated 10 of their software patents in their mobile devices.  HTC develops and sells mobile phones, PDA-type devices. The USITC judge ruled [...]

Continued hacking fallout which originally began with the “News of the World” United Kingdom-based tabloid (regarding the hacking of voice mails of persons) has spread through the veins of its parent company, News Corporation.  Not only has this coerced News Corp.’s into retracting a bid for majority control of BSkyB, but Dow Jones CEO Les [...]

News Corporation announced two days ago in a statement that they were mulling over the possibility of removing themselves from the picture of acquiring majority control of BSkyB.  The statement read “News Corporation today announces that it is withdrawing its proposed undertakings in lieu of reference to the Competition Commission with respect to its proposed [...]