"Earlier this week, Microsoft and Netflix announced that movie streaming will be coming to the Xbox 360. This could be a big deal. But if you are really interested in watching Netflix content on your Xbox, you don’t have to wait and you don’t have to pay twice. If you...
For those (like me) who are big gaming nerds, E3 started today. While E3 has suffered a lot of controversy in the last few years (closed registrations, no outside press unaffiliated with G4, etc.) it still remains...
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"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...
It is revealed that Microsoft never put off its offer. Yet another offer from Microsoft."Yahoo has angrily rejected a joint takeover offer from Microsoft and the investor Carl Icahn. Microsoft would have bought Yahoo's search engine while Mr Icahn would have ended up with...
..It's been a roller coaster at the office lately with all of this buyout talk by Microsoft, but I am happy to have read this story. I'm not quite ready for a hostile takeover and certainly not ready to work for the...
" 36 views Jul 9, 2008 Collision Course: Apple Mobileme vs Microsoft Live Mesh Microsoft and Apple have been fighting each other for the public perception in the Innovation Space, Apple has been in the front, putting together ideas and services faster...
"Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn't bother Dan Kaminsky, who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet's infrastructure.Kaminsky made headlines on Tuesday by talking...
"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...
Could ZuneRiots Reignite?Back in January I covered the worldwide ZuneRiots! People around the globe were demanding their rights, the right to a Zune!I have recieved reports that some countries are beginning to worry that the movement may re-erupt, let's hope not! I pledge now...
The Steve Ballmer Action Figure!Everybody else has got an action figure, why don't I?This always bothered me! Am I the victim of Action Figureism?Well I'm not one to complain, so I have commissioned a single run of one hundred and one "Steve Ballmer, MS CEO Action Hero"...
For some this is good news, for others it's a kick in the teeth with a steel-toed Kodiak work boot. The thing I find surprising is that Microsoft is already planning a new operating system for 2009. That was quick,...
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Beginning in July, Bill Gates will switch jobs for the first time in his adult life, stepping out of a full-time job at Microsoft and moving over to philanthropy. The whole world is a far different place for what he and Microsoft did. At the heart of the high-tech industry...
Founder and face behind the global software giant Microsoft is hanging up his boots after making his company as household name. This friday will be the last day at the office. One of regrets of his otherwise...
"Smartphones as represented by the Nokia "N" series pictured here, are getting a software structural boost with the formation of an "open-source" foundation based on the Symbian OS software platform. Image Credit:...
"A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27. Three people...