Betanews readers are an opinionated lot, so it's no surprise they've got a few things to tell Microsoft about how to run the business. On December 7, I asked readers to offer their advice for Microsoft in 2010 -- and, whoa, have they done it.

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TechCrunch hosts the "web Grammys" every January, and I think I know who will win this year. I like this award show because it highlights new and emerging startups that people need to learn about. It's exciting to see the movers and shakers get up on stage and accept their awards. Here are my picks, but you should evaluate each site and vote for yourself: Best Internet Application: Yelp Among ...

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Will 2010 be the year the Ballmer era ends at Microsoft?

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(CNN) -- It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook's popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. But into each electronic life a little digital rain must fall.

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It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook's popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection...

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What's Your Reaction? Still need some geeky last minute gift ideas? You're in luck. We've hand-selected three gadgets that just about anyone, not just geeks, will appreciate. As you can tell by the image above, Microsoft's sleek Zune HD is one of the choices. Continue reading to see the others.

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For $15 a month, a Zune Pass subscription is a pretty great deal. The only catch, seemingly, is that you also have to pony up a couple hundred bucks for a Zune. Except: turns out you don't. PocketNow...

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Microsoft on Friday issued a fix for its new Zune HD Twitter app, which initially was censoring swear words. You can now see all the explicit tweets you can handle.

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This week, we reported that the newly released Zune application for Twitter hates “naughty words” . Translation: It censors you when you use explicit language by adding the all-mighty asterisk in place of the identifying characters. Yesterday, Engadget told us that Microsoft was all up in the issue, seeking to resolve the problem and let us get back to slowly decimating the English language ...

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Microsoft promised us it would remove the silly content censorship from the Zune HD Twitter app ASAP, and here we are a day later with version 1.1, which lets you see all the schoolyard swears you could ever want. High five, assholes. Unfortunately, we're not seeing a huge performance improvement: it's a tiny bit snappier, but we're still seeing unresponsive buttons, laggy scrolling, and random ...

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