Acer waits for Windows RT 8.1 to make tablet decision
Acer is waiting for the next version of Windows RT, due in the second half of this year, before deciding whether to release a tablet that runs on that OS. “The plan for an RT tablet is ongoing,” said...
View ArticleMicrosoft admits zero-day bug in IE8, pledges patch
Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a “zero-day,” or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company’s most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the...
View ArticleIntel’s new Atom chips peak on performance, power consumption
Intel’s upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and break the “myth” that ARM processors are more...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Windows ‘Blue’ to be available later this year
Microsoft’s update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows “Blue,” will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options...
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Microsoft’s own numbers show Windows 8 sales falling rapidly
Grab your calculator and follow along as we wind our way through Microsoft’s Windows 8 sales numbers. The tale will leave you scratching your head — or at least give you renewed respect for imaginary...
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Red Hat CEO: We don’t need Microsoft to succeed
Jim Whitehurst has been president and CEO of prominent Linux distributor Red Hat since December 2007. Continue
View ArticleSecurity pros cheer hint of hands-off updates in Windows Blue
Microsoft’s apparent plan to automatically update its own Windows Store apps is drawing praise from security experts. “Auto-updating apps … improve security and are great for anybody that does not have...
View ArticleSkype extends coverage of Manager administration tool
Skype’s Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service. Using...
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Is Microsoft’s claim of 250 million SkyDrive users fuzzy math?
Microsoft’s announcement this morning that it has 250 million SkyDrive users sounds imp Continue
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Nokia investors tell CEO their patience running thin
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia investors told Chief Executive Stephen Elop on Tuesday that they were running out of patience with his flagging attempts to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung in...
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From Nokia chief to Bill Gates, guessing game begins on new Microsoft CEO
LONDON (Reuters) – As Steve Ballmer bows out of Microsoft Corp, the guessing game over who will replace him has started with a British bookmaker putting Nokia’s Stephen Elop as the favorite. Continue
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Windows Phone could overtake iOS in 3 years
Featured | Written by: David Swan | Published in: MobilityNews broke last month that Microsoft’s Windows Phone has increased its market share worldwide but Forbes has gone one step further, suggesting...
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Yahoo blames ongoing email disruption on tricky hardware problem
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s email service has been unavailable to some users since Monday night due to a “hardware problem” that the Internet company said has been harder to fix than it...
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Microsoft says Xbox One global sales top 2 million
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp has sold more than 2 million Xbox One video game consoles since its November 22 launch, catching up with rival Sony Corp’s PlayStation 4 released a week...
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Why We Do What We Do
Institute Professor Ann Graybiel, PhD ’71, has transformed our understanding of a “primitive” area of the brain.Much of our health and happiness is rooted in our own behaviors: whether we exercise and...
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Obama to meet with data surveillance review group Wednesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will meet on Wednesday with a panel he appointed to review privacy issues related to government surveillance programs, days after the group submitted...
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Finnish city Oulu sees light at end of Nokia tunnel
OULU, Finland (Reuters) – From early December, the Finnish city of Oulu is trapped in darkness for all but a few murky midday hours, a darkness some feared might be matched by its economic prospects...
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Insight: AOL banks on HuffPost to turn profitable next year
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s the holiday season and Arianna Huffington, the influential woman behind the popular news website that bears her name, is busy buying sweaters – some 700 of them – as gifts to...
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Syrian Electronic Army says hacked into Skype’s social media accounts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts...
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Microsoft pulls the plug on Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP
With three months to go until April 8 and the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft has dropped another nasty surprise. Continue
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