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.
Microsoft makes tablets that use digital pens and N-trig makes those pens. The Israeli company is the brains behind the stylus included with Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3. So perhaps the stories of… Read more »
The British telecoms regulator Ofcom has formally approved the deployment of white-space broadband technology in the U.K., following trials. White space broadband uses the empty buffer zones that are placed between… Read more »
As had been rumored last week, Microsoft has officially purchased Sunrise Atelier, a startup that makes a popular calendar app for basically every major mobile OS except Windows. No price was announced,… Read more »
HTC’s first wearable device is expected to debut soon and it might surprise with support for both Google Android handset and Apple iPhones. That’s based on details posted by Upleaks, which generally… Read more »
Verizon customers with a Lumia Icon phone should have a software update waiting for them. No, it’s not the Lumia Cyan software that’s long overdue; it’s Lumia Denim, which will bring… Read more »
Datadog, a startup that monitors the performance of users’ cloud computing servers, has acquired big data startup Mortar Data and intends to shutter the company’s existing cloud service. Mortar launched in… Read more »
Elisa Steele, the former Microsoft and Skype executive who joined Jive in 2013 (see Elisa Steele assumes new role as Jive’s EVP of Strategy and CMO), and who was moved to the… Read more »
Congress wants U.S. regulators to hurry up and open a chunk of federal 5.9 GHz airwaves for commercial Wi-Fi, which would let more smartphones, tablets and laptops milk faster speeds out of wireless… Read more »
Even though I’m a Chromebook user with 1 TB of free Google Drive storage, I have multiple cloud storage accounts. That’s mainly for redundancy, but of course it can add complexity:… Read more »
It’s only been a few weeks since Box went public, but the file-sync company with a work-collaboration bent is rolling out a new encryption-key feature to entice big-name companies like the… Read more »