Apple Should Approve Fewer But Better iPhone Apps With IDC predicting 300,000 iPhone apps by the end of next year, maybe it's time for Apple to be more selective in what it approves.

Google Strives to Make Public DNS Secure Google introduced Google Public DNS to offer an alternative DNS system and hopefully speed things up on the Web. Google has included additional security controls to address weaknesses in DNS security.

Google's Schmidt Strikes Back at Murdoch (In His Own Newspaper) While News Corp. and Google debate, quality journalism continues to die. Technology may come to the rescue--as Google suggests--but not quickly enough to save Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire.

Microsoft Bing Suffers Outage The Microsoft Bing search engine was offline Thursday night. The outage could hurt Bing's reputation, but this is one case where Microsoft is lucky to be the challenger.

Bing Maps Beta: Microsoft Should Repent and Simplify If there is something to like about the Bing Maps beta introduced this week, it remained hidden during my visit. The user interface is a mess, but some consumers will doubtless like it.

Analysts Predict App Explosion in 2010 IDC analysts are predicting that 2010 will be the year of the app, with Apple tripling to 300,000 apps, and Android quintupling to cross the 100,000 mark.