rivals

Datamation: Designed for touch screen tablets, KDE's Plasma Active is clearly superior to its rivals.

Ultrabook? Zenbook? What's in a name, anyway? Asus has just held a press event in New York City, where chairman Jonney Shih has introduced the newest Ultrabook: the Asus Zenbook.

It's really not much different than what we've seen before in this category, but the new branding should make it easier for the company to differentiate from rivals...

Despite reassurances from Google that it will run Android as an open platform, some fear former partners will become rivals.

How about that for some big news on a Monday morning? The $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility has huge implications across the mobile and living room markets and could signal a stronger position for Android as it fends off patent infringement claims from Google rivals.

Datamation: The Java 7 release brings Oracle together with rivals IBM and HP to evolve what has become the most influential programming language for enterprise deployments.

Developments since launch have been fast, furious, and encouraging... but can RIM keep up the pace and hang in against its rivals?

Google has imposed technical restrictions to block European search rivals' access to YouTube, content and data that competitors need to improve search results and attract advertisers, according to the complaint filed by Microsoft.

InfoWorld: "Try as they might, open source desktop apps never gained much ground against proprietary rivals -- and maybe they never will"

Tuxradar: "Ubuntu is dominating the mindshare for desktop distros, but there's still a place for rivals – even those built on the Ubuntu foundation – to take things in different directions."

Cyber Cynic: "I get that Apple's iPad is hotter than hot with over three million sold so far, but to say "Apple has won the battle for tablet computing already" is really overreaching."