Features

• Linux: A getting-started guide

  By Ian Paul | 01 February, 2012 01:54

  Are you fed up with Microsoft Windows and ready to give Linux a try? Here's how to get started. This guide for Linux discusses who the Linux OS is right for, what you need to get started, and how to turn your Windows PC into a dual-boot computer so you can have the best of both worlds - Linux and Windows.

• Great apps for BlackBerry

  By Armando Rodriguez and Ginny Mies | 29 November, 2011 01:51

  Navigating an app store can be tricky, with vague descriptions, dubious user reviews, and sometimes buggy apps. We searched for the best apps available.

• IN DEPTH: Defying the odds

  By Julia Talevski | 30 September, 2011 09:28

  The incredible - and inspiring - story of neuroscientist and Promethean chief science of education officer, Ramona Pierson

• Nokia and Yahoo team up: Does anyone care?

  By JR Raphael | 25 May, 2010 08:27

  Screw Android 2.2. Forget the new iPhone. Nokia and Yahoo have some news.

• The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: what it means for you

  By JR Raphael | 19 February, 2010 10:17

  Microsoft and Yahoo, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Top 10 technology stories of 2009

  By Marc Ferranti | 09 December, 2009 12:17

  The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, and the take-up of small, 'Net-connected devices was stronger than ever. Here, in no particular order, is the IDG News Service's pick of the top 10 technology stories of 2009.

• The 10 stupidest tech company blunders

  By Dan Tynan | 31 August, 2009 14:40

  Some of the biggest high-tech deals never happened. Some of the most promising products and services never came to be. Why? Because the people and companies involved didn't realize what they were letting slip through their fingers, or they simply couldn't foresee what would happen afterward.

• The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: questions and answers

  By JR Raphael | 30 July, 2009 08:55

  Well, friends, sound the wedding bells: The longest-running courtship in the history of mankind has finally reached its climax. No July Fools' joke here -- Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to tie the knot and form a search partnership.

• Yahoo Search: RIP

  By Jared Newman | 30 July, 2009 08:59

  Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who were at the time students at Stanford University.

• Microsoft-Yahoo search deal: 3 reasons why it makes sense

  By Eric Lai | 30 July, 2009 08:13

  The Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. courtship that has been taking place on and off for the past four years had grown as tiresome as the annual Brett Favre retirement watch.

• Yahoo to open research center in Beijing

  By Owen Fletcher | 20 May, 2009 21:37

  Yahoo has built a global research and development base in Beijing that it will formally announce next month, the company said Wednesday.

• Yahoo developer tool identifies locations in apps, docs

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 21 May, 2009 05:27

  Yahoo has created a technology that simplifies and automates for developers the process of identifying geographical references in the content that their applications process.

• 2008: Yahoo's year to forget

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 18 December, 2008 11:24

  For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest.