It's always nice when a giant, billion-dollar company can make fun of itself. It's even nicer when they crack jokes about themselves at the expense of their competitors.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a top Microsoft exec called Apple's new iOS4 "the company's Vista."

"It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm okay with that," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Everyone seems to be paying a lot of attention these days to the battle between Google and Apple.

Maybe it's the fact that the smart phone battle is so interesting or maybe it's because the two companies used to be so close (and shared board members).

But the battle between Google and Microsoft is now heating up with some fascinating implications.

Google famously banned Windows this week because it blames Microsoft for a security breach.

Microsoft has come out firing releasing blog posts citing their continued efforts in improving security.

Obviously, Windows has some security issues that mainly arise because it's the main target.

Give a room full of hackers an hour with Google's rumored Chrome operating system and we will see how secure their OS is.

Time will tell.

Is the end of the Internet on the horizon? Some experts think so.

On Sept. 9, 2011, experts believe the last set of IP addresses will be released. The IPv4 system that the net runs allows for a few billion addresses. According to experts, we only have about 7 percent, or 300 million, of those IP addresses left.

IPv6 could solve all these problems and provide users with trillions of addresses, but many countries may be slow to adopt the new system.

BBC Story - Internet approaches addressing limit

Alexander Gounares former  CTO of Microsoft's online services division, has left the software giant to become AOL's CTO.

Microsoft announced today the Kin One and Kin Two - two new phones they hope will be just the beginning of what could become a dominant smart phone OS.

One of the growing trends on Twitter is to use the social networking site to share interesting news stories. It's not hard, with the health care debate still raging in the Twiterverse at least, to get goaded in to clicking links.

We’ve talked about this before but its worth bring up again after a great article by Wired. If you use Google Apps or are considering the business email product to replace Microsoft Exchange, then you better read this.

Zimbra was suppose to be Yahoo’s answer to Gmail (well kind of), but after reports surfaced that it plans to sell the email product along with a host over other offerings, one has to wonder what will be the future of Yahoo.

Final ASP is pleased to announce an expansion of its IT support services thanks to the launch of our YouTube Channel and support forums Website.

Every piece of great software has an equally great Easter egg, and Google is no different. Here are the top Easter eggs in Google’s lineup of products.