Google I/O — Mountain View's biggest event of the year — returns to San Francisco later this week for an event highlighted by a massive three-hour keynote presentation on Wednesday. The annual conference is ostensibly aimed at developers, who will spend three days in sessions learning how to build for...

Ouya, the Android-powered game console that began its career as a Kickstarter project, has just received $15 million in venture capital funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). For those who haven’t followed Ouya’s wild ride, its Kickstarter project generated a feeding frenzy of $8.6 million in pledges,...

Aaeon announced a Linux-friendly ‘EPIC’ form-factor SBC (single-board computer) based on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N2600 processor, which is bottom-mounted for efficient heat transfer. The EPC-CV1 supports up to 2GB RAM, offers dual-display HD video output, provides Gig-Ethernet, USB, serial, and SATA ports, and accommodates a 3G cellular module and...

Over at Microsoft, Office applications now make up a huge part of the company's revenues. In fact, as I noted recently, Office and server sales were the drivers of Microsoft's recent strong earnings report. Fans of LibreOffice and Office may resent it, but the fact is that Microsoft Office and the company's proprietary file formats have a stranglehold on enterprise application users. The good news, though, is that Microsoft is starting to display a more ecumenical attitude toward open, non-Microsoft platforms. Just this week, the company announced that users of Android tablets will be able to run Office Web Apps seamlessly. Among other things, that could make enterprises running Microsoft's tools more friendly toward Android devices.  According to Microsoft's post: "The Office Web Apps also serve as a key connection point...