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Steve Ballmer admitted the obvious this week, that Google was the first one to get search right and that most people see no reason to switch to Bing, no matter how good it may (or may not) be. He called it the value of incumbency.

The other night my son had a school assignment to interview me about how technology had changed since I was a kid. I began rattling off all of the gadgets and gizmos we take for granted today and realized just how far we've come.

Somewhere along the way, Microsoft lost ground and became the underdog to Google and Apple, but with issues of their own, can Microsoft find its way back?

Google Buzz only came out yesterday, but it's taking a lot of hits around the internet from privacy issues to interface complaints. But the open aspect of it could lead to interesting third party implementations.

Lost in all the Google Buzz hype today was an announcement Google was making 1 gigabit super high speed fiber channel internet access available to a few lucky communities in the US. This is unheard of speed and I would certainly welcome it in my home town.

Google has pissed off some powerful people of late, but none so much as the CEO of Apple. Jobs is unhappy about the Nexus One and gunning for Google. Could Google live to regret the day it decided to go into the phone business?

Even as devices like the Kindle, iPad and other electronic book-reading devices likely become more pervasive in the coming years, I still believe there will be a market for paper books.

While the price took everyone by surprise, I'm still not sure that Apple can convince iPhone buyers that they really need this device when the one in our pockets does many of the same things. And we already own it.

Zoho has decided to offer its Zoho Discussions tool free of charge to open source projects. It will even help customize the discussion forum for the individual needs of each group.

What could Apple be thinking talking to Microsoft about making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone? Anyone who seriously believe Microsoft and Google have substantially different goals is deluding themselves.

A BusinessWeek report suggests that the Nexus One release marks the latest volley in an escalating war between Google and Apple, but could the two companies be better off working together and acting as a check against Microsoft?

With its online-only retail strategy resulting in just 20,000 Nexus One sales the first week, Google goes on offensive on AdSense, but risks cutting into the most profitable part of their business to prop up an under performing one.

In spite of a reported record number of Beta downloads, I'm wondering what would compel anyone to buy Office 2010 with a growing number of free or low cost alternatives such as Google Docs and OpenOffice available.

Facebook may believe they can toy with their user's privacy, but in reality, their hold on their user base is probably more tenuous than they believe.

While we may salivate over the idea of a Tablet computer from Apple and others, when you think about it, do we really need another PC category when the smart phone and netbook seem to have it covered?

The big story to me today wasn't the launch of the Nexus One phone, which looked nice enough, but the fatally flawed web-only distribution system

With rumors swirling of a Nexus One release next week, it has me wondering why Google would undermine the open source eco-system it worked so hard to create by releasing its own branded phone.

Although the mainstream media has tried to make it a big deal, a closer look at the recent court ruling ordering Microsoft to stop selling Word, shows it's really not going to have very much impact.

With the purchase of NBC Universal, Comcast's power grows unabated. It may be up to cities and towns building their own municipal networks to find a way to fight that growing hegemony.

While Google and Apple may both be working the mobile space hard, Google is giving Android away, and even if they sell a Google smart phone, they'll never be hardware company like Apple. Google's ultimate goal is to sell ads, and the more platforms, they have to do that, the better off they will be.