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After the failure of Google Answers, Google's latest question-answering service offers the possibility of a cash prize as an incentive to participate.

Slide, the social entertainment company acquired by Google last fall, quietly launched Prizes.org, a website that allow users to offer an award for the completion of a specified task.

ViewSonic is the first to start selling a dual-boot tablet that supports two operating systems -- Windows 7 and Android. The 10-inch, dual-boot ViewPad tablet runs an Intel Atom processor and has two USB ports for a keyboard and mouse. The electronics manufacturer, which also makes computer monitors, TVs, and projectors, released the ViewPad 10 on Monday. The 10-inch tablet was first introduced in November.

Last year, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch criticized Apple's refusal to allow Flash on iOS devices as anti-competitive behavior and vowed that his company would design software to author content in HTML5, the emerging Web development specification that Apple advised Adobe to embrace.

New data shows Redmond slipping farther behind Apple and Google despite recent launch of its new smartphone OS. Despite the buzz surrounding its launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS last November, Microsoft continues to fall farther behind rivals Apple and Google in the smartphone market, according to data released Monday.