Nearly two years after they were expected to announce a Microsoft Office killer, Sun Microsystems and Google may finally be planning to do it. Or not. By way of background, following much hype about a ...

In Silicon Valley, comeback stories comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and epic. So when Sun Microsystems and Google announced this week an agreement to distribute software together, some ...

SAN JOSE — Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and ...

Sun Microsystems has rejected notions that bundling the Google Toolbar with Java Runtime will be anticompetitive, especially since users will still have the option to install other toolbars such as ...

Matt Asay suggests that Google and Sun made the same bets on the future, and so far only Google has won. (To the right, the best CEO ponytail evah!) I would like to respectfully disagree. Not just ...

Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing the ever-helpful How To section, special packages and front-page programming. As a writer, she gravitated toward science, quirky geek culture ...