from PC World by Marc Ferranti, IDG News Service The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, [...]

by Eric Zeman Over the weekend, Sprint and a number of other companies agreed to invest another $1.5 billion into Clearwire, the growing provider of WiMax services. Notably absent on the list of financiers was Google, which has previously given cash to Clearwire. Clearwire needs more cash to continue building out and operating its slowly expanding WiMax network across the U.S. Sprint, its major investor, [...]

by Michael Arrington Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. Gizmo5′s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P back end. After the Skype settlement, though, Gizmo5′s strategic value to Skype sort of plummeted. In the meantime, Google bought them, [...]

By Claudine Beaumont Apple says that consumers may turn to Mac computers because Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7, is ‘complex and expensive’ The criticism comes from Brian Croll, vice president of Apple’s Mac OS X worldwide product marketing. He said that Microsoft users were tired of the “headaches” caused by the Windows operating system, and expects [...]