Industry

iPad buyers: Your tablet is at the store (maybe)

Sampling of Apple's retail stores shows that all have some iPad models in stock

Do Insecure Open Source Components Threaten Your Apps?

Wall Street Beat: Tech ends best quarter in markets since dot-com bust

Red Hat and Tibco report strong quarters

Will Microsoft get into a Windows 8 price war with Chinese pirates?

If you can’t beat them in court, running them out of business might work

debateOS: The Ubuntu Spin for Debaters

How does a high school debate coach develop a free solution to paperless competitive debate? With the help of some high school debaters and coaches, Kickstart, Linux, and OpenOffice.

Microsoft dishes on touch hardware and Windows 8

A new post on the building Windows 8 blog details the requirements for touch-enabled Windows 8 devices and explains why limitations on many current Windows 7-based touch systems have forced the company to rethink the Windows touch language.

NASA wants game-changing space toilet, waste systems

NASA, Nike US government offer challenge to build advanced waste systems

Windows 8 Update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud

Also, why Windows 8 Consumer Preview touch experience can stink; is Microsoft a sore loser?

Extreme mobility: Tools and tips for smartphone-only travel

Foxconn’s overtime reduction will not affect product prices, analysts say

Apple supplier Foxconn is reducing employee overtime to help improve working conditions at its Chinese factories