Mac owners can now purchase programs for their desktops and laptops with a single click, just as you can buy songs on iTunes and games in the App Store for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Apple has set January 6, 2011 as the launch date for the App Store, which will be available in 90 countries with free and for-pay software in categories such as education, games, graphics and design, lifestyle, productivity, and utility. On the developer side, Apple says developers will set the price of the applications and get 70 percent of the revenue. They also do not have to pay for hosting, marketing, or credit card transaction fees; Yahoo announced it will be cutting about 4% of its workforce, which would equate to around 600 jobs. The company also said it’s planning to shut down several "underperforming" and "non-core" Web properties as it continues a years-long turnaround effort. According to a Yahoo spokeswoman, sites that could be affected by the moves include Delicious, a so-called social bookmarking service; the venerable Web search sites AltaVista and All The Web; and Buzz, which aggregates news stories from around the Web and lets people vote on how important they are; Next summer, Google will be rolling out its Chrome Operating System into the mix with the likes of Windows and Apple OS. Chrome OS is based on Google's Chrome Web browser. Instead of storing most programs and files on your computer itself, the Chrome OS will mainly run programs from, and require you to keep your data in, the cloud. In effect, it turns your entire computer into a giant Web browser, instead of treating the browser as just one among many local programs. Another cool browser being released soon is RockMelt. We’ve mentioned them before. In the first-ever browser where users will have to log in, RockMelt will automatically open Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, and keep it right at your fingertips; And lastly today, we give you a quick peek at the cover of TIME magazine, where the publication named Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg as its Person of the Year.
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