Chrome OS and the wonders of closed open source
Jeff Haynie has a wish. He wishes that when building an operating system, Google was as open as Microsoft. Or at least as open as Apple.
He’s well aware that Google likes to open source Android code. He realizes the company just freed code for an early version [...]

“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt
Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he’s done with the project:

“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, [...]

Since 1996, Microsoft has been writing operating systems for little computers to carry in your pocket. It was a lonely business until the company’s perennial rival, Apple, introduced the Web-browsing, music-playing iPhone. But now that smartphones are popular, Microsoft’s operating system, Windows Mobile, is foundering.
Andrew Lees, Microsoft’s vice president for mobile communications, says the company [...]