Notes from the field: Once again the time has come to honor those tech companies who have made this past year so, umm, interesting. “As with last year, this year’s Moonies (for Malicious Obnoxious Offensive or Nonsensical behavior) come with a handsome statuette of Steve Ballmer dropping trou in the general direction of the Googleplex,” Cringe explains in The best (and worst) of 2007. The sweet turd of youth, Apple’s crazed string of lawyer-fatigued lawsuits, and none other than IT’s own dead-horse-beater, SCO. Those are just the worst, while the best ones get “a tip of the Cringe fedora for a job well done.” Video: Continuing the reflection, albeit less sardonically, the IDG News Service looks at the biggest tech news stories of this soon-to-be gone 2007 — beginning with, you guessed it, the release of Windows Vista and Apple’s Leopard. Apple wiggled its way in a secod time with the iPhone and then again when it dropped the price so soon after its initial release. Palm pulls the plug on Foleo, among others. Watch it here. Software Development