Steve Ballmer did not receive his maximum bonus this year because of missteps at Microsoft. The bald sweaty blob received a cash bonus of $670,000 at the end of June, but the payout is 50% less than his potential maximum bonus. Ballmer was apparently slapped on the wrist for failures such as the Kin and Microsoft’s failure to bring an iPad competitor to market. Ironically, despite these failures the blob was still able to raise Microsoft sales 7% to a record high of $62.5 billion. On top of the bonus, Ballmer received a total salary of $1.34 million, a 6% raise from 2009. While Microsoft is apparently…

Google just can’t leave anything alone. Give them two minutes with a computer and a couple of engineers and they’ll have reinvented something, made it better, quicker, smarter, easier. It’s what they do. So what have they been up to now, those nerdy rascals? Their latest means of improving the world is.. images. Fresh from their latest successes in speeding up the web via DNS and prioritizing our inboxes, Google is now looking at images as an area ripe for improvement. Since the inception of the web, the same formats have been used with little change. GIF was first, a small but low quality format designed…