Collabri Group LLC

Google is moving its employees to Mac and Linux, but its influence on CIOs is more likely to be felt with Chrome and Android.

By putting itself on the auction block, Novell has opened bidding on a valuable patent portfolio, one that could fall into the wrong hands.

Microsoft continues to try to leverage its Windows brand, but it's a recipe for failure, at least in mobile.

Apple once had a lock on fanboys, but no more. Google is making waves and lots of friends with Android and other industry-changing products.

The company needs to reinvent itself, and a private-equity buyout may be the perfect way to accomplish this.

Mozilla is at a crossroads as it seeks a new CEO; and it needs to become a hungrier, more competitive company if it hopes to increase Firefox's market share.

Cloud computing can lower costs, but its biggest benefit may be its role in simplifying complex IT operations.

The technology elite may be turning their backs on Facebook at the very moment when the mainstream is most ready to adopt the social-networking powerhouse.

Diaspora, a new "anti-Facebook" open-source social network, responds to Facebook's privacy problems, but will struggle for users if it remains overly complex.

In an attempt to beat the iPhone, more competitors are developing their own versions of Linux. This is a mistake.

The company is struggling for life in some markets, but its history of making big shifts in strategic direction suggests it's got plenty of fight left.

The two companies used to be the best of friends, but the need to control the data center increasingly puts them at odds.

Apple and Google bring diverse, opposing strengths to their battle for the mobile Web.

Open-source vendors like JasperSoft have been looking for more efficient support models, but perhaps SaaS is the best of them all.

Google Android shows strong developer and customer growth, which has Apple and Microsoft increasingly worried and willing to take action.

AT&T is about to lose its iPhone exclusivity and should take a look at Foursquare as way to make subscribers more profitable through software services.

Apple wants to convince developers that it is a paragon of openness to attract developers, but it will need more persuasive arguments to beat Android.

Despite enterprise IT getting less of the VC pie, the sector continues to chug along, thanks in part to VC investments in mobile.

Oracle has everything to gain from the world shifting to Open Document Format, which makes its strategy of charging $9,000 for the ODF plug-in so bizarre.

If mobile computing is the future, open-source developers are effectively writing themselves out of it with their continued focus on server and desktop environments.