Google’s share of web searches for Feb 2009 was at  72.11%, up 8 percent year-over-year. Still not quite at the 90% share predicted by one Jason Calacanis one year ago, but, hey, it’s getting there.
Google Ups Share of Search To 72%; Yahoo, MSN and Ask Continue To Tank - Search Insider, March 11 2009

The curiously quixotic ads by Microsoft circa September 2008 that featured Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were officially deemed a failure a few days ago. The NY Times quotes customer-loyalty researcher Brand Keys as sayings that the 1st ad in particular, called Shoe Circus, resulted in a more negative view of Microsoft among users and [...]

Steve Wozniak of Apple Inc fame predicts the demise and eventual death of the iPod. Steve sez all good things must come to an end, and iPods and iPhones will join transistor radios and Walkmans in the ash heap of history.
While iPods are getting stale and the iPhone is too proprietary, Woz suggests that the [...]

In case you’re still not rich, Mark Cuban explains how it’s done.
0. Spend less…cut up your credit cards…eat macaroni and cheese if necessary.
1. Accumulate cash.
2. Find something you love to do.
3. Get a job in that field and learn everything about it.
4. Wait for a cyclical downturn in your sector.
5. Then use your cash to [...]

According to Amazon, the best-selling notebooks are actually netbooks. Netbooks account for 18 of the top 25 selling laptop computers in the Amazon most-popular list, with the $399.99 Acer Aspire One at the top of the list.
According to Vijay Rakesh of ThinkPanmure, the tremendous success of the small, cheap and light netbook threatens Macbook sales [...]

Happy 10th birthday, Google!
To celebrate, Google kicks off Project 10 to the 100th, which is a call for “ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible”. So if you have a suggestion in the gategories of Community, Opportunity, Energy, Environment, Health, Education or Shelter, or the ever-popular Other, submit them to [...]

Google launched their Transit on Google Maps service in NYC September 23 2008. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were on hand at Grand Central Station to offically to announce the tool and to demonstrate its features.
If you’re in one of 58 cities in the U.S., or 17 abroad, you can [...]

The Ultra-Mobile PC or UMPC was first introduced back in May 2006 to moderate fanfare, and in case you’re wondering how they are doing now, 2.3 years later, the answer seems to be ‘not so good’.
DeviceGuru in fact declares the UMPC form factor to be dead, having been replaced by the netbook, while no one [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer puts in a brief appearance with the latest round of I Am a PC commercials for Microsoft. In a short 8-second spot, Steve stalks the halls of MSFT saying only “I Am a PC and I Love This Company“, but playing it marcato.
The over-analytical might be tempted to misinterpret Steve’s over-enthusiasm [...]

DARPA’s interesting new Super Resolution Vision System aka SRVS sees through atmospheric turbulence to achieve an amazing 3x better than diffraction-limited resolution. Turbulence degrades image quality but also creates micro lenses whose images can be algorithmically combined to produce a clean image. Sort of similar to gravitational lensing.
Should find good use in earth-based astronomy. [...]