Matt Asay / CNET News:
An application war is brewing in the cloud — Today’s cloud-computing vendors focus on infrastructure, but that won’t be the case for long. It can’t be. As competing vendors seek to differentiate themselves, they’re going to move “up the stack” into applications.
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:
The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009 — This past year felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks implemented to help guide the future of extensions. Personas gave Firefox on-the-fly theme-switching, and users can expect it to be part of the stable version of Firefox 3.6 when that gets released.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel: New graphics, ‘Core’ chips coming — Intel on Thursday previewed new Core processors and graphics technology that will become the pillar of its mainstream chip offerings. — As reported previously, Intel said it will roll out new Intel Core i processors on January 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Yahoo joins the real-time search parade — Yahoo is ready to integrate real-time results from Twitter directly onto its search pages. — Not to be outdone by its rivals, Yahoo is getting into the real-time search business as well. — Days after Google announced its plan for integrating content …