I've just put the beta of OpenOffice 3 through its paces, and found that the office suite can do just about anything that Microsoft Office can do, supports a wide variety of formats...and, of course, is free. Given all that, who needs Microsoft Office? Check out my blog for details and screenshots.

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During Intel’s 40th birthday celebration in Munich, Intel Germany chief Hannes Schwaderer let out a monster secret. He said that Apple is indeed using Intel’s new Atom chips in a new device, that is slightly larger than the iPhone.

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Earthlink partnership with Philly crashes and burns, defeated by mocha lattes and Big Macs

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When I recently explained one of the many reasons why I prefer desktop Linux to Windows, even over my favorite desktop Windows, XP SP3, I got a lot of people telling me I was full of hooey because I barely even mentioned Mac OS X.

Good enough, here's my take on Apple's Mac OS X.

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According to French language Swiss news site LeMatin, not only will the 3G iPhone hit the mountainous country in June, but it will be sporting some new services....

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What is the iPhone Black and why is it appearing on AT&T Wireless's site? That is the question that Apple's iPhone watchers are asking themselves this morning after Appleinsider reported that AT&T is now offering a surprise. Could this be the illusive 3G iPhone making an appearance a few weeks before its official debut?

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 Will the 3G iPhone have hardware GPS?  It is hard to imaging it wouldn't with the "Landmark Event" coming in June.  Howwever some people like to get information early.  The best way to get information early on the iPhone is to dig through the iPhone SDK Betas that are coming out of Apple on a weekly basis.

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A Westchester, New York woman has her MacBook back after having it stolen by two Bronx men. How did she accomplish this? Turns out she works at an Apple Store and, as part of her job, demonstrates the functionality of "Back to My Mac" remote desktop software that comes with .Mac accounts.

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Oooh, it's IT Blogwatch: in which OpenOffice.org 3.0 breaks cover, to delight and frustrate in equal measure. Not to mention two new entries for the Uxbridge English Dictionary...

Peter Cohen reports:

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Apple may be the darling of the hipper-than-thou crowd, but when it comes to climate change, it has one of the worse environmental records of any tech company, according to a new survey. Microsoft beats it by a considerable margin, and IBM is best of all the techs. I have all the results in my blog.

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The first legal home PCs just went up for sale in Cuba, and it should be no surprise that they're Windows XP-based, not Macs. Macs or Mac-alikes would be far too pricy for cash-starved Cubans, who pay just under $800 for the machines. No Vista, either: The hardware required to run it costs too much money.

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Today Vodafone announced that it would bring the iPhone to 10 countries in the latter half of 2008. The countries are:

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Back in March, Apple began tricking Windows users into downloading Safari via a method that Mozilla CEO John Lilly said "borders on malware distribution practices." Malware or not, the scheme paid off for Apple, tripling the use of Safari on Windows in a single month.

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Windows users have long felt that Mac owners looked down their noses at them. Now a marketing survey shows that's true: It found that Mac owners feel superior to PC users. Among other oddball facts, it also discovered that they're more likely than PC owners to whiten their teeth.

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Not only is the Apple iPhone the most popular phone for browsing the internet, it is also the most popular phone for uploading pictures. Flickr, the worlds largest gallery of online pictures (by some accounts) rates the amounts of pictures uploaded by each type of camera phone. Guess who just passed the 5 megapixel Nokia N95?

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