24 January – Five Stories You Need to Read

Yahoo!News reports that “[o]n Tuesday, rivals Microsoft and OpenOffice.org both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites.”

According to The Register, “Oracle has spiced up its offer of low-priced support for Red Hat Linux users with the addition of systems management software.”

BusinessWeek.com writes that “[s]ubscription-based, ‘Massively Multi-Player Online Games’ could represent the end of the traditional packaged games business.”

According to the International Herald Tribune, “[a] technology and media conference held [in Munich] this week provided ample evidence that Silicon Valley’s dominance of Internet-style technology innovation was waning.”

BBC News points out that “China could soon overtake the US to have the world’s largest number of internet users, according to a state-controlled think-tank.”