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.
Skype subscribers in India won’t be able to place VoIP calls to landlines or mobiles in the country as of next month. Starting November 10, those calls will no longer be… Read more »
pEp is a user interface scheme that’s designed to help users judge how secure their conversations are, and make them more secure with as little knowledge as possible. Read more »
Facebook is overstating the importance of its cookie-free ad server, but Google’s DoubleClick empire is facing its first serious threat in years. Advertisers and agencies should launch trials immediately, if for… Read more »
Talko co-founder Matt Pope explained on the Structure Show how he, former Microsoft software head Ray Ozzie and the rest of the team built the new voice communications app. Interestingly, although… Read more »
Evernote has accepted that its app is ugly, and as a first step in rectifying that the company has released a very attractive, clean, and intuitive web client, now available in… Read more »
This PC spreadsheet had a great run in the late 1980s, but it’s been under the radar for years — succumbing to the Microsoft-Excel-and-Office onslaught. Now, IBM is officially ending support. Read more »
Google is proposing a URL-based naming system for navigating the internet of things that it calls The Physical Web. Here’s how it will work and why it might not. Read more »
RBC Capital Markets boils down the basics of cloud computing — storage, compute, I/O and a few other features — to come up with one unit of cloud pricing that can… Read more »
After using mobile bookmark sync tools for years in the early smartphone days, I’ve completely abandoned such bookmarks without even realizing it. Mobile apps and improvements in mobile browsers are the… Read more »
For $79.80 off-contract, I’m not sure you can beat the Lumia 530 if you’re on a budget. That’s what T-Mobile will sell the Windows Phone 8.1 handset for when it arrives… Read more »