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.
Google will try to persuade a federal judge in San Jose, California on Thursday that its Android agreements, which requires Samsung and other phone makers to include products like Google Search and… Read more »
Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings… Read more »
Oracle, which ramped up its cloud marketing and product rollouts over the past year, touted some encouraging signs for that business in its second quarter, ending November 30. Revenue from cloud products — which fall into what the Wall Street… Read more »
Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about? It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim data center expansion to fuel its effort to offer… Read more »
Google Android Wear watches can already help you manage tasks but ToDoist thinks it has a better solution. That’s why the company is shrinking down its popular to-do app to fit… Read more »
As we know from the recent dustup around the forking of Node.js, people are passionate about that server-side JavaScript run-time environment. Now StrongLoop, a startup formed to provide commercial support for Node.js, is bringing… Read more »
Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framework. The framework has supposedly been “used extensively” in the Azure… Read more »
Microsoft started rolling out a new feature for Skype on Monday called Skype Translator which will translate communications from users using different languages in near real-time — that is, as you’re… Read more »
If you weren’t already worried about the security of your company’s internal memos and other documents, the recent Sony hack probably fixed that (and reinforced the message that if you don’t want egg on… Read more »
The Chinese web giant Baidu has decided on Nokia as its mapping partner for services outside of China. ‘s Here platform is one of the key remaining businesses of the Finnish… Read more »