Operators are the math geeks of the scripting world. Use them to "do the math" in PowerShell.

Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack."

Avnet Inc., the large Phoenix-based technology distributor, warned this week that earnings for its third quarter of 2008 would fall below management expectations.

Plus, Blockbuster makes a bid for Circuit City, and Salesforce and Google team up.

Rumors that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will appear this month continue to flourish.

In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.