Including Yahoo! Music player as a preinstalled software on Toshiba's notebooks gives users another way to enhance their multimedia experience.

What Apple's producing with iPod is the total experience with hardware, software and services. That's the piece none of the other purveyors have figured out: how to make the thing a great experience from soup to nuts.

Within a month, Ray was putting his thoughts on software-as-services on paper.

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.