Is Microsoft already hot in their pants about Linux and Open Office? A recent job posting does not suggest otherwise. According to a job posting on Microsoft careers, they are looking for a Marketing lead who will focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”.

FeedDemon the popular desktop RSS reader is working on adding content filters to the newsreader. The new changes were shared by @nbradbury, who is the creator of FeedDemon.

Google has put up a really awesome doodle on the Google New Zealand homepage to celebrate Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday. This is probably the first animated Doogle by Google.

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 is slated to start on January 7th 2010. CES 2010 will see around 3000 companies launching more than 20,000 products. Here are our predictions for CES 2010 for Intel, HTC, Palm and Microsoft.

The 2010 theme for Windows 7 is created by Tim Heuer, and was created using 2010 desktop wallpapers released by Smashing Magazine. The theme consists of 35 “2010″ desktop wallpapers which are of really high quality.

Looks like Opera were not the only people working this New Year to release Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha, the folks at Mozilla did some work too and finally released the RC1 for Firefox Mobile, which was supposed to be released in December.

So 2010 has already set in, almost in every place across the world, and the predictions are flowing out like hot coffee on a chilly night. Here are some of the Top Tech Predictions for 2010 from some of the most authoritative sites in the Tech World.

Download Firefox 2010 Calendar. The Firefox 2010 Calendar is released by Mozilla Links and is available for downloads as PDF files in Letter Size, A4 Size and A4 size in Spanish.

Looks like Firefox Mobile “Fennec”, which was supposed to be released this year, will be delayed too, like the other versions of Firefox. Firefox Mobile, was supposed to be released for the Nokia N900 Internet tablet in late December 2009, however, we have already reached the final day of the year and there is no sign of it.

2009 has been a year of mobile devices, however, come 2010, you will see more Internet tablets coming out. We take a look at some of the Internet tablets which will hit the streets in 2010.

FreeAllMusic is all set to launch a service in January, where users can download free DRM music. However, users will have to view video ads of approx 15-30 seconds lenght before they can download the free music. FreeAllMusic is currently in beta stage and will go public in January 2010.

According to a study by University of California, women spend more time in online role playing games than men. The study was conducted by Dmitri Williams and surveyed 7000 anonymous players of EverQuest II. Among the surveyed players, 80% were men. Among the surveyed players, females spent 29 hours a week as compared to 27 by male.

Techie Buzz wants to take the opportunity to wish Linus “Linux” Torvalds, the chief architect of the Linux Kernel, a very Happy Birthday. Hope you have a great day and keep contributing to the Open Source community.

Wondershare will be giving away a copy of their Photo Recovery software for free on 29th December, 2009 at the giveaway site, Giveaway of the Day. A retail copy of Wondershare Photo Recovery sells for $29.95 and from the reviews I have seen, it is pretty decent and does it’s job pretty well.

Google is known for buying technology companies, however, not every company that Google has put their eyes on have accepted the deals. Here are some companies who rejected lucrative Google offers.