The new phone powered by Google is set to launch today, ready to face off against Apple’s iPhone in the run up to Christmas.

The long-awaited smart phone, called “G1”, will be manufactured by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and will be available exclusively on T-Mobile in the UK.

The mobile, already dubbed the “G-phone,” will run on Android, Google’s new software for mobile phones. It will be launched in New York tomorrow afternoon, and will be available in the US next month. It is anticipated that the phone will be available in British stores by November.

After years of deliberation, the University of Havana has finally decided to switch over to free software on its network of computers, virtually all of which currently use Windows operating systems.

After many years of consideration I have decided to begin my own consuting firm. So without futher ado I give you Webb Consuting. I know the name lacks flare but it has a nice solid feel to it. So there is a new section to my site, so of you may have already noticed to additional menu item. I will be primarly focused on the upstart of the firm so my posts my be reduced, but keep an eye out for great things in the future.

Usually I don't write about search engines, but i believe the war is beginning to heat up. Coming into work I heard a commercial for Ask.com and it started me to thinking. Why is Google number one? Because they are fast and accurate simplistic design. Now Ask.com has fancied up their web page and now has results with images and video along with page links.

Yahoo has made significant enhancements to its search engine that the company said boosts the speed of searches and accuracy of results.

The engine’s new Search Assist feature provides suggested search queries on the main results page along with related concepts to help users explore an unfamiliar subject area, said Tim Mayer from Yahoo’s search development team in a blog post.

Well it turns out that I was right all along (well me and about 1,000,000 other people). So let the Open Source Games begin. In the 102-page ruling, the judge, Dale A. Kimball, also said Novell could force SCO to abandon its claims against IBM, which SCO had sued. Judge Kimball's decision in favor of Novell could almost entirely undermine SCO's 2003 lawsuit against IBM.

The ruling could remove the cloud over open-source software like Linux, an operating system loosely modeled on the proprietary Unix. The unresolved ownership has been seen as a limiting factor in the willingness of computing managers for businesses large and small to adopt open-source software, which can be adapted freely by software developers and can be legally shared or modified by end users.