Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
To make it even easier to build a connected light bulb, Qualcomm Atheros and startup LIFX have teamed up to create a Wi-Fi module and software that lets lighting manufacturers get… Read more »
Microsoft still makes legacy feature phones under the Nokia brand, and on Monday, the company launched the Nokia 215. The $29 2G candybar phone runs the old Series 30+ operating system… Read more »
Let’s face it: Hard drives aren’t sexy. Seagate thinks it can spice things up though, launching its new Seagate Personal Cloud drives on Sunday. With the addition of wireless capabilities to the… Read more »
The greater Boston-Cambridge area has no problem attracting bright young people from all over the world to its colleges and universities. But it has well-documented issues keeping the best-and-brightest local when they… Read more »
Looking at app releases to Apple’s iOS App Store throughout 2014, one can learn alot about the direction a company is heading, good or bad. Read more »
New, muscular Intel Haswell-based C4 instances are now available to the masses — or will be soon– depending on whether an Amazon Web Services blog post that went up, then came down, on… Read more »
There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk about what’s possible are finally giving way to some… Read more »
People who watch Amazon Web Services tend to be cloud oriented and don’t necessarily pay a ton of attention to the Amazon Inc. mothership. Maybe they should broaden their focus a bit… Read more »
Over the holiday week, I received the HP Stream 13 laptop that I ordered on Christmas Eve. The normal price of this Windows 8.1 with Bing notebook is $229, but I… Read more »
Lately, Microsoft has focused mobile software efforts on the platforms it competes with. It’s part of a cross-platform “going where the users are” strategy, which is smart if hardware sales are… Read more »