http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/22/all xx http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline#comments Business Government Green IT Legal Mobile & wireless Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85605 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85583/third-party-screensavers-return-snow-leopard When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was because 10.6 required 64-bit compatible screensavers, whereas existing screensavers were 32 bit. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85583/third-party-screensavers-return-snow-leopard#comments Operating systems Software Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85583 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85563/welcome-golden-age-vaporware I've been in this business for 357 years, but I can't recall a time when we've had more written about products that do not actually exist. We are truly living in the golden age of vaporware. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85563/welcome-golden-age-vaporware#comments Hardware Personal tech Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:25 -0500 ITworld staff 85563 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/85561/salesforce-chatter-collaboration-tool-or-social-network If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. That is, unless you're Salesforce.com, and you're talking about its new Chatter application. While observers have looked at features like profiles, status updates, Twitter and Facebook integration as proof that Chatter is an enterprise-grade social network, the company and its executives are taking pains to call it something else -- a "social platform," or, as carefully noted by Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff, a collaboration tool: http://www.itworld.com/software/85561/salesforce-chatter-collaboration-tool-or-social-network#comments Internet Software Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:21 -0500 ITworld staff 85561 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85575/latest-unsubstantiated-apple-tablet-rumor-contradicts-previous-unsubstanti Fervent believers in the previous unsubstantiated rumors were thrown into a tizzy by the latest changes in this made-up vapor-tale. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/85575/latest-unsubstantiated-apple-tablet-rumor-contradicts-previous-unsubstanti#comments Mobile & wireless Opinion Apple Apple tablet Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:13 -0500 jfruh 85575 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/85555/xbox-live-gold-free-today-through-monday Microsoft wants you on Xbox LIVE for the weekend with, of course, a view toward forever, and it's prepared to temporarily waive the cover fee to grab your attention. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/85555/xbox-live-gold-free-today-through-monday#comments Personal tech Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:09:51 -0500 ITworld staff 85555 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/85546/five-reasons-google-chrome-os-will-succeed Google's Chrome OS doesn't signal the apocalypse for Apple and Microsoft, but that doesn't mean the operating system won't succeed when it arrives next year. Just like the Chrome Web browser, Google's carving out a small slice of the market for people who want the company's buzzwords of speed, security and simplicity. Over time, the legion of Chrome OS fans will grow, and Google will look at its operating system as a success, not a failure, as my colleague Tony Bradley argues. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/85546/five-reasons-google-chrome-os-will-succeed#comments Internet Open Source Operating systems SaaS Software Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:04 -0500 ITworld staff 85546 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/85547/happiness-facebook-cuts-canadian-womans-health-care Facebook can be a dangerous beast. As social media evolves -- and the freedom of the Internet diminishes our self-censorship -- many have run into situations where Facebook has landed them in trouble and sometimes canned from a gig. It has been established that some companies scrutinize employee and potential employee Facebook pages to ensure what it's getting isn't tarnished by bad behavior such as playing hooky or being loose-tongued about one's feelings about work. The latest example is a little trickier: a Canadian woman saw her health benefits stripped away after the insurance company saw "happy" pictures of her on Facebook. http://www.itworld.com/internet/85547/happiness-facebook-cuts-canadian-womans-health-care#comments Business Internet Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:04 -0500 ITworld staff 85547 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/85532/techies-gather-lunch-save-world The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground. http://www.itworld.com/internet/85532/techies-gather-lunch-save-world#comments Internet Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:15 -0500 ITworld staff 85532 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/85475/not-every-change-twitter-makes-newsworthy It seems that no change to Twitter is too trivial to create a post-wave in the tech blogosphere. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/85475/not-every-change-twitter-makes-newsworthy#comments Offbeat Opinion blogging Twitter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:19:08 -0500 pasmith 85475 at http://www.itworld.com