Turns out that Opera, Mozilla, and Google’s gripes about Microsoft’s browser favoritism were accurate, it appears Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is the slowest of the major browsers on the market, but it (along with its...
Google has gobbled up another small productivity company with today’s purchase of DocVerse, a plug-in that makes Microsoft Office software collaborative. The only surprise about this latest acquisition, perhaps, is that...
Whoa. During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft’s Eric Rudder played the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360. Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous. Not...
‘Thanks for the good times…’ Microsoft sent flowers to last night’s IE6 funeral, thanking the browser for “all the good times.” The nine-year-old IE6 was laid to rest yesterday in Denver, Colorado, after...
The iPad, Apple’s new-fangled tablet computer, will be hitting store shelves on April 3rd. The device combines the multi-function use of the iPod Touch (music, movies, web-browsing, gaming, so forth) but with a larger size and a higher...
Pretty huge news in our book: Skype has published a free mobile application for Symbian in the Ovi Store, basically enabling over 200 million Nokia handset users to easily download the program and start making free Skype-to-Skype calls...
Google Inc. has added new, customizable features to the Window’s version of Google Chrome beta – privacy and translation. According to the Google Chrome blog, users can change how certain browser components interact...
Apple (AAPL) this morning said it has sued smart-phone maker HTC, alleging infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Apple filed concurrent actions in federal court in Delaware and with...
Picnik just announced that it has been been acquired by Google. While the details surrounding the acquisition are still somewhat murky, the Picnik team just announced the acquisition on the company’s blog. Picnik currently has 20...
Apple doesn’t always do the best job of publicly responding to customer concernsâ€â€consider app approval issues, buggy software, display cracks, and so on. When something goes wrong, the last thing any affected...
Microsoft Corp. on Friday made its case publicly for increased antitrust scrutiny of rival Google Inc., while deflecting criticism that one of its European properties helped spur a local investigation of the Internet search giant. “Microsoft...
Palm has officially unveiled the webOS 1.4 update for the Sprint branded Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. The main updates include the ability to not only shoot, but to edit video, improved usability in the major applications, and the use of the...