Apple this week notified iPhone developers that they cannot use the device’s GPS data to serve location-aware advertisements to users of App Store software. In an update to the “News and Announcements for iPhone Developers”...
Past MS VP says infighting, fear of hardware hurt Microsoft has largely lost its ability to direct the industry, former VP Dick Brass claimed today in a telling editorial. He believes the company is now a “clumsy, uncompetitive innovator”...
Flash never ships with bugs we know about Adobe has fired back at Steve Jobs after the Apple boss allegedly attacked Adobe Flash for being “buggy” and referred to the Flashmakers as “lazy.” “I can tell you...
Twitter has identified a scheme that uses compromised file-sharing sites to steal the log on information of users. The service said it had discovered a number of compromised “torrent” sites that had been set up specifically...
It’s official: Microsoft got it right this time. After the mistake that was Vista, Windows 7 was greeted like the second coming, and it many ways it really was better than its predecessor: less annoying, faster, smoother,...
As expected, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Azure platform (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and AppFabric) in 21 countries. Starting today, Microsoft customers and partners in those regions will be able to launch their...
Google is planning to open an app store selling business software, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company currently operates what it calls a solutions marketplace for its 20 million-odd Google Apps users, directing users to suppliers...
Last week, the world saw Apple’s long anticipated tablet device, the iPad, for the first time. In the aftermath since that announcement, a few things have become clear: it will be great for some people, but its apparent...
A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple’s newly announced iPad may sue the U.S. company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday. Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial started selling its P88 tablet...
We knew Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had a hot competitive streak, but it isn’t pundits making fun of the iPad’s name that are earning Jobs’ ire. Apparently, it’s Google and Adobe (NSDQ:ADBE), both of which entered...
You know you can’t obtain an iPad for least three months, but you may not know the reason you can’t even buy one in advance: Apple has not yet obtained the necessary Federal Communications Commission approval...
This is a story which speaks volumes about Microsoft, its corporate customers and the mentality that both have. You might remember in recent weeks the argument between Google and the Chinese government about the Gmail accounts of Chinese...