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Yesterday saw a lot of column inches devoted to NUads, a new advertising technology coming to us from Microsoft this spring. The basic gist of the system is that, by using Microsoft Kinect, advertisers can let viewers interact with TV ads.

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If you never thought you'd see the day when Microsoft would declare itself the loser in any technology sector, be prepared: that day may have just arrived, one day before April Fool's Day.

Kind of a good news/bad news day for Google and Android fans.

Asus cardboard computer case Image credit: Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Imagine buying groceries and, just when you're about to pay, being told that your food bill has been paid already. By Yahoo! That's what happened to hundreds of customers recently at the Mission district Foods Co, a grocery store in San Francisco. Yahoo representatives stood at every cashier station, paying up to $100 for groceries until they had spent a whopping $10,000.

Two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation of online search giant Google's Street View mapping project without taking action, another government agency is picking up where the FTC left off. From CNNMoney:

Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair).

Apple loses one 4G iPhone and look what happens.

Here's a couple tricks you can play with grep, several that don't appear to have corresponding support in some of the other Unix versions.

The problem with messianic predictions is that they tend not to help you make decisions.