In the last year there have been a number of organisations offering rewards, or ‘bounty’ programs, for discovering and reporting bugs in applications. Mozilla currently offers up to $3,000 for crucial or high bug identification, Google pays out $1,337 for flaws in its software and Deutsche Post is currently sifting through applications from ‘ethical’ hackers to approve teams who will go head to head and compete for its Security Cup in October. The winning team can hold aloft the trophy if they find vulnerabilities in its new online secure messaging service – that’s comforting to current users. So, are these incentives the best way to make sure your applications are secure?

Microsoft is spending a whooping $100 million on the marketing of Windows Phone 7. Which means you will hear and see a lot about Windows Phone 7 in the weeks to come. Just like any Hollywood movie now the sales in first day, then first week and then first month have become quite important. Credit goes to Apple which converted boring sales report which mattered only to managers into an entertaining media event.

Apple has announced the discontinuation of Xserve, the company's  rack-mountable server solution as of January 31, 2011. Steve Jobs told to a user via an email that the reason behind this discontinuation was: "Hardly anyone was buying them."

The Apple iPad and its ecosystem are likely to disrupt existing technology use profiles and business models, and CEOs should ensure that its potential is being seriously evaluated inside their organizations, according to a new report from Gartner.
 

Google has always been on acquisition spree. With these acquisitions came the founders, CEOs of those companies. Some of these founders are finding it hard to stay afloat in Google. Within a week Google has lost founders of 3 companies that it acquired.
 

The excitement build at the launch of Samsung's Galaxy Tab has fizzled out with the announcement of prices. O2 has announced the prices of Galaxy Tab for the UK market, and the prices are £ 599.
 

I had a policy about my books. R&R. It means read and return. With the arrival of eBook readers like Kindle, one of the core components of reading or knowledge sharing has lost, which we still crave for -- borrowing, lending and sharing books.

Steve Jobs's team is following one of his statements quite literally in which he said, "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

Apple claims to be setting yet another benchmark with the launch of all new MacBook Air, by replacing hard-drive with solid-state-drives.