Microsoft's former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a payout for unvested stock in the company, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. …
Vine, Twitter's mobile video service, has just gained several new features designed to make it easier to shoot with the app and to share videos more widely. …
Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in Atherton, California. He was 88. …
Yahoo has continued a major buying spree by acquiring Xobni, which offers products designed to help people keep better track of their contacts. read more
Yahoo has continued a major buying spree by acquiring Xobni, which offers products designed to help people keep better track of their contacts. …
One provider of contact center services in Latin America sees cloud computing as critical to competing with much larger competitors. …
Box, the red-hot provider of the eponymous cloud storage and file-sharing service, will boost the collaboration capabilities of its product in the next 18 months, and could become a publicly traded company next year or in 2015. read more
Oracle has quietly cut the list price of its flagship BI (business intelligence) Foundation Suite significantly, possibly in response to increased market competition. read more
Twitter is working on some new approaches to offer more personalized ads to users, partly based on their online activity outside of the social network. read more
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich described keen interest shown by 8 million Web developers in the Firefox OS, and said that 20-plus smartphone makers and wireless carriers plan to sell devices running the OS to first-time buyers globally, initially in markets where low-cost phones are in demand. read more
A new Harris Interactive survey reveals what employers look for and what pictures and posts on Facebook could keep a prospective candidate from getting that perfect job. read more
Sure, Windows 8.1 may be more about refinement than revolution, but it has some killer tweaks to entice users to check it out. read more
Although Microsoft took a pass on 1080p display support in Windows Phone 8, that support is looking more likely for later this year. read more
Microsoft has cut the prices of many of its Xbox console titles. The software giant showed off the first round of discounted games Monday as part of its ongoing "Ultimate Game Sale." read more
The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That's leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is. read more
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a broad registry agreement that moves the organization forward in its efforts to offer more than 1,000 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for sale. read more
A vulnerability that has existed in Android for the past four years can allow hackers to modify any legitimate and digitally signed application in order to transform it into a Trojan program that can be used to steal data or take control of the OS. read more
Nokia's latest low-cost phones, the 207 and 208, have integrated support for social networking as well as Exchange and can be turned into a USB modem. read more
One neuroscientist believes human heads can be transplanted onto host bodies, but another doctor thinks this is crazy talk. read more
Apple has hired Paul Deneve, until Tuesday the CEO of French luxury brand Yves Saint Laurent, to work as its vice president for special projects, igniting fresh speculation about possible new product launches including a TV or wearable computing devices such as a smart watch. read more
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Корпорация Microsoft официально сообщила о достижении отметки в 100 тыс. приложений в Windows Store. Для этого сервису потребовалось около 7 месяцев — его запуск состоялся в октябре 2012 года. Для достижения аналогичного результата Windows Phone Store потратил 18 месяцев, Apple App Store — 14 месяцев, Google Play (магазин приложений для …