Google pips Apple to top company slot

Search engine Google has knocked Apple from the top spot of Wired magazine's Top 40 companies. To qualify for inclusion in the Top 40, companies had to show a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. So while Apple was still praised for the iPod and iTunes dominance and 'bundling the iLife suite of creative tools with new computers', the judges advised Steve Jobs and his company to go one step further and to adapt 'the Mac OS to run Windows apps natively'. ...more

Nature journal puts blogging into peer reviews

The scientific journal Nature is to adopt an open peer-review system to judge papers submitted for publication. Manuscripts will be uploaded to a pre-print server and made available online in what is essentially a blog, allowing members of the scientific community to comment on the content's merit. Comments submitted are subject to review themselves before being published, and anyone commenting must put their name and institution to their words. ...more

Microsoft Office 2007 review: first look

PC Pro contributing editor Simon Jones gives his verdict on Office 2007. For the full 12-page review, with comprehensive coverage of each new application, look out for the next issue of PC Pro, out on sale Thursday the 14th of December. Four years in the making, Office 2007 is nothing short of a revolution in the way we interact with software. ...more

Battling bots, Batman!

Warring Robots are not a new idea, but IBM has programmed a twist of its own... ...more

Murdoch unveils video plans for MySpace.com

Rupert Murdoch plans to begin selling video downloads through his recently acquired MySpace.com. The News Corp boss told a technology and media conference in Arizona that there will be 'millions of downloads a day probably'. ...more