Lexicographers at the New Oxford English Dictionary have announced their Word of the Year for 2009!  Alright, it isn't really technology related news per se, so we should probably not be reporting it here.  Still, the 2009 Word of the Year was inspired by technology and its use and, tenuous or not, that's all the relationship we need.

A US District Court judge has issued a summary judgement for Apple in its suit against Psystar.  Apple filed suit against Psystar in 2008 when the later company began selling computer hardware specifically designed to run the Macintosh operating system.  The "Mac clones," Apple maintained, violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA), as well as violating the end user license agreement (EULA) for the Mac OS X operating system.  The EULA for Mac OS X allows the end user to install the software only on Apple hardware.

Fortune Magazine today named Apple Computer's Steve Jobs its choice for CEO of the Decade.  The magazine reviews Jobs career in Silicon Valley, beginning with the founding of Apple Computer (with Steve Wozniak) in 1976, through his "exile" from the company in the 1980s, his return to the company in the 1990s and his recent return to the company after his battle with cancer.  The full story along with the reasons for Jobs' selection can be found here.